Driving NJ Crazy

Or perhaps better stated: being crazy to drive in NJ.

Yesterday turned out to be a marathon driving day... getting a tour of the
pinelands Northwest of Tuckerton.

The day started out as any normal Sunday morning, driving up to our home church of Calvary Chapel Old Bridge. This is just a 20 minute jaunt up the Garden State Parkway from our home, and then a few miles over to the church facility located off of Rt 516.

From there, Nannette and I had a parent's prayer meeting that we attend regularly. It is held near Wrightstown, NJ, a little hamlet called Jacobstown... just north of the great blueberry fields of New Egypt (not to mention the New Egypt raceway, but I digress).

Following that meeting, we had committed to visiting Nannette's mom, currently at the Atlantic City Medical center, Mainland division, in Galloway Township. How to get from Jacobstown to Galloway?

Via the Pinelands National Preserve, created when the infamous William Jefferson Clinton signed into law, making a unique ecosystem a national preserve... interestingly enough the "edge" of this area (part of the same ecosystem) does indeed contain some trout streams.... the Toms River, Mullica, and perhaps a wild brookie stream as well... but I digress.

From Galloway, we returned home, where Nannette left me... to go on to Newark International Airport to pick up our eldest daughter Saralyn, returning from Pittsburgh.

Her flight arrived around 10:30PM, but it wasn't until near midnight she was able to GET OFF THE PLANE.

Whew... whirlwind of a day.