The Ocean City Bucket List: 100 Ways to Have Real Ocean City Experience

Ocean City, New Jersey has hidden gems not found in any guidebooks, not advertised on any brochures. This book takes you behind the scenes of our favorite city. Some of the entries may be familiar, and you can check those off immediately, but others may be a mystery. As you check off your adventures (some easy, some more challenging), you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you've gone beyond the typical "tourist" status and become an "honorary local," and trust me, that's a more desirable handle than "shoobie." Like kids at the beach, we should all dig deeper, and once you hit water, you'll truly know the town we love. I hope this book will help you to "feel" what makes Ocean City so special to me and my family.

Mary Ann Bolen is a wife, mother, grandmother and retired elementary school teacher who has had Ocean City’s sand in her shoes for more than 40 years. She and her husband, Bob, got married in Ocean City, bought their first home in Ocean City and later taught their two children to appreciate the simple, sandy joys of bare feet, front porches and outside showers. The Bolens live year round in their 105-year-old house. It has been the headquarters ＂down the Shore＂ for four generations of relatives and countless friends, and it will always be ＂home＂ to Bob, Mary Ann and their now-grown children, Kevin and Mandy. When she’s not reading mystery novels in a beach chair or visiting her children in Key West and Boston, Mary Ann is still checking off the last few items on The Ocean City Bucket List and is constantly looking for more of the town’s undiscovered gems.