We love the boardwalks. They’re nice to walk on and, this is not a property of boardwalks per se but it is true for this walk, they are by the ocean. We think there will be boardwalks all along the coastal trail, so for five or six more days.
We read that some of them get covered with sand. Sand is much harder to walk on.
You can see how deep it gets, even covering the boardwalk posts.
Today we walked some with steps.
Hundreds of miles of boardwalks must be quite a maintenance problem.
The upside is that this creates work that AIs can’t do (yet).
Our deck at home is fake wood but these seem to be treated, real wood. You can see lots of knots.
They mostly are by the ocean.
Sometimes through woods and by golf courses.
Of course, I really wanted to make some reference to the Drifters “Under the Boardwalk” but these boardwalks don’t have anything underneath them like some SoCal boardwalks.
Still, the song gets into your head, right? Those boardwalks are great. Like you said, maintaining them must be lots of labor and some maintenance person is walking a lot of miles. Or maybe there are roads close enough so supplie don’t have to be hauled that far?
The boardwalks have pretty good road access. Some parts might be a few hundred yards from a road. I was thinking the same thing that someone had to walk each one periodically to check for boards needing replacing.
About the song, I read recently that one thing to do when you get an earworm is to chew gum. Apparently it brings blood to that area and that helps. I’ll try it next time I get one.
When I was looking up “under the boardwalk” I was reminded that they also did “up on the roof”. I see a trend here, and they sound fairly similar. But that’s fine with me, I like both songs.