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A Cross Country Trip – Fire Island and Back to Eugene Thru Canada Beach on Fire Island  It was July and Cyndi and I had arrived at my parents house in Huntington Station on Long Island. Long Island can get quite humid and it can be quite oppressive at times in the summer and it was one of those times. Coming downstairs one morning Cyndi informed me that the humidity was awful and asked how could I live in a place like this? My initial thought was “It's not like I had a choice. Besides, this was all I had ever known and it's not like this all the time.” Cyndi grew up in the Chicago area and they have humidity too, but it does not get as intense as it does on the east coast. What we used to do on days like this was head to the beach. It would be less hot, generally with a breeze, and we could swim. So, we packed up and headed out to the beach. Since we were on an island we had a choice between the north shore beaches or the south shore beaches. I decided t