Sean lives in Manhattan, but has a house in Mattituck, Long Island:
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This area of Long Island is very New England. -- more accurately, having never been to New England, how I imagine New England being. The landscape is gorgeous. Sean invited us to spend the weekend at his house in Mattituck. We, of course, accepted. The house is a quaint place, part of a subdivision of old 1910-ish houses right on the Great Peconic Bay (between the North fork and the South fork). The North fork is also quite different from the South Fork "Hamptons" everybody thinks of. North is very "small town", traditional, cute little shops and town, and while there is some new construction, most of the building is renevation of old houses that have been there for a hundred years.
Here are a few pics of the boys playing in Sean's front yard:
Clearly it's nice to have room to run!
We then took a walk around the neighborhood, and since most of the houses are seasonally occupied, we were able to cut through a private walk down to the beach (which is also private to the residences on it, but nobody was home):
There was a park close by, and we spent some time on the swings and playing on the play structure:
We called it a day at that point, and retired back to the house for the evening. We played Rummikub for over two hours, told stories, played guitar (Sean has a great Taylor guitar), and hung out all evening. Very nice time.
The next day, we were off again. First we went to the first submarine base constructed in the United States, about 10 minutes from Mattituck:
Behind us was a memorial. Here are some additional shots of the surrounding coastline:
At that location was also a house that Louis Moore Bacon owned and ran some trading functions out of. Louis Bacon is a legendary hedge fund manager and runs Moore Capital, one of the oldest and most successful hedge funds. Louis Bacon made tons and tons of money, has 27 houses around the globe, including a hunting lodge on Robins Island, which is just off the coast of where we're standing in the above pictures (he owns the entire island). He also owns the largest ranch in Colorado, and paid a whopping $175 million for it, which according to the Denver Post, is the most ever paid for a piece of property in the United States!
Here is a picture of the house:
Legend has it that the large set of windows on the right portion of the house used to contain a satellite behind them that beamed private feeds of Reuters and Bloomberg to his residence on Robins Island.
OK, moving on.
We then toured around some old towns and villages in the area, and stumbled across this gem:
This is a house constructed in 1649!! Put in perspective, Portland, OR wasn't even inhabited until 1843, a good 200 years after the construction of this house.
We then drove on to a lighthouse that was commissioned by George Washington. While I for some reason neglected to take any pictures of the actual light house (I'll be honest, it was less than thrilling), we got a shot of Sean pointing something out to us, and of him and the boys:
All in all we had a great time!! Thanks Sean!
We left Seans house around noon, bombed back to Manhattan (which we have to drive across to get home) and since it was Sunday and traffic isn't TOO bad, we drove around Manhattan for a while:
It was actually cool. We came in on the Midtown Tunnel at around 42, then drove uptown until around 70th, cut through central park (which was awesome), then drove around the Upper West Side a bit before heading back down to W 34th where the Lincoln Tunnel is to take us back to Jersey. Managed to rack up 4 Bentley sightings, so not too bad for 10 minutes driving around the city.
We weren't home for 30 minutes when the wind really picked up and it started snowing!
Because it was so windy, it was nearly completely white outside!
Now it's super windy, and with the wind chill, about -3 outside. Yikes!
Until next time, Cheers!
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