I’m not sure how many people know this, but there is a church bus that brings kids to LBI beaches from Forked River. It’s been doing this for years.

This did not exist when I was a kid growing up in Forked River; if it had, I would have been on that bus no matter which congregation it was from. Growing up there was all fine and good, but once we started surfing, living in a town that is 10 miles south of Seaside and 10 miles north of LBI became the bane of our existence.