"put your car on cruise and lay back 'cause this is summertime"

This past weekend, I went down the shore with my two best friends. I was excited about playing in the ocean and hanging around on the sand all day, and of course about eating terrible food on the boardwalk (fried pickles all the way, man) but the thing I was most excited about on this particular trip was making a “we are going to the beach” mix.

I thought long and hard about the songs that made the most sense for the hour trip, and came up with what I considered to be an awesome mix. Different trips have different feels, and knowing that we were heading for a fun day down the shore, but coupling that with the fact that it was very likely we’d sit in traffic long enough to double our drive time, I had to keep the whole thing fresh and make sure that the songs would carry us through the traffic jams as well as the open road.

The other consideration when creating this mix was the audience. The three of us have some different tastes in music, so I wanted to cover that as best as I could without subjecting myself to an hour and a half of Hannah Montana or show tunes.

So I put together this mix, and couldn’t wait to listen to it while cruising down to Ocean City.  But guess what? I left it in my car when I got into Nicole’s car, so we never even got to listen to it. I figured instead of wasting it, I’d share it here with you guys. It really is a good “driving around during the summer” disk.

if you are interested, the download can be found here.