My wife, Z, and I have been making the trek to LBI to the same house, on the same street, a few steps from the same beach in Peahala Park every July, going on nearly 20 years.

I know, to a lot of you that’s means we’re still just Island neophytes, but it also means we’ve seen a lot of the same kids grow up from toddlers to teens to parents themselves, right there on that sandy strip of Island magic.