--- description: Uber this title: Summer Is Upon Us And So Is the Cannonball Express image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcb6cf80c891227d6/698690c0adae446ab55433ef/5-sandy-seclusion-on-anna-maria-island.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Summer Is Upon Us And So Is the Cannonball Express by [Bijan Stephen](/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2014 1:00 PM CUT  Anna Maria Island’s Sandy Seclusion Getaway from: Miami Past the industrial fruit juice-making town of Bradenton, you’ll find a clutch of beautiful hidden beaches and stoplight-free Anna Maria Island. Here, days are spent sunbathing on soft sand, sipping chilly cocktails on the boardwalk, and tucking into fresh seafood on the deck of a waterfront restaurant. Anna Maria Island’s Sandy Seclusion Getaway from: Miami Past the industrial fruit juice-making town of Bradenton, you’ll find a clutch of beautiful hidden beaches and stoplight-free Anna Maria Island. Here, days are spent sunbathing on soft sand, sipping chilly cocktails on the boardwalk, and tucking into fresh seafood on the deck of a waterfront restaurant.Robert Harding World Imagery / A—Alamy by [Bijan Stephen](/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2014 1:00 PM CUT Summer, it seems, is upon us—already I can feel the promise of pizza and beer and floating face up in large bodies of water; the weather, obligingly, is shifting. Here in New York we’ve a grand tradition of getting away from our hellishly hot and humid city, which seems to have waged an ironic Cold War (in scope and attendant promise of Mutually Assured Destruction) on her citizens. Soon, droves of New Yorkers will migrate north in a regular seasonal movement—like pink-footed geese (_Anser brachyrhynchus_) with expense accounts—to the Hamptons, a rarified enclave of seaside hamlets on the South Fork of Long Island. (Some do, in fact, [fly](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/uber-helicopter-uberchopper-hamptons-july-3rd.html "undefined").) For those who don’t or can’t fly and refuse to take the [Jitney](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton%5FJitney "undefined"), there’s a new, super speedy way to migrate. Gothamist [reports](http://gothamist.com/2014/05/22/super%5Ffast%5Fcannonball%5Ftrain%5Fpromise.php "undefined"): --- > “” --- I’m not sure what these pampering services are, but the prices aren’t _so_ bad—$47 to go to East, and $39.75 to go west. Fly, sweet geese, fly. 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