Total Jersey ... We made it!!

All the way to Cape May!! All good (kids are in the water as I write). Yippee!!!!

Final Night Campfire

Final reflections and thoughts around the campfire tonight. Tomorrow we rise early and boogie fast from Belleplain State Forest toward Cape May. We will be in touch from the road. We looked at the state map and were amazed by what we've accomplished!! Total Jersey, top to bottom!!! See Folks Monday pm!

Lunch at Lake Lenape

Making time this morning, ripping through Egg Harbor City and lunching early at Mays Landing. On to Belleplain SP tonight, thus shortening Monday's riding. These kids are terrific, btw, scorching the highways. They could go Jersey to the Pacific in a flash. And nice too!!!

Leaving Atsion

After a nice visit at Batsto Historical Village, we pedaled on to Atsion, where the swimming and sleeping was gentle. On PAST Mays Landing Sunday.

Rumbling Quiet in the Pines

Sleeping in this morning: long hot ride yesterday, short day today, rain and distant thunder of disappearing storms. Ride to Batsto Village later this morning and visit this Pinelands artifact. Then on to Atsion SP to camp and enjoy the lake there, and perhaps canoe. The group is terrific, riding like thoroughbreds, cooking like camping chefs, giggling endlessly around picnic table card games, and, even more to the task, paying attention to the land and people they are moving through and among. These six are lovely people, fast asleep on a soft summer morning in the dropping pines along the Wading River. -PJC

One Component of the Curriculum

Because this trip is not built as an experience built for and delivered to the kids but rather as a group task that the kids accomplish together, we do meals a particular way. Here Melissa and Carly are out shopping for the meals of the next 24 hours for us all. With a tight budget and some general guidance, they head into the grocery with a plan. Knowing that a hungry horde is just about to finish a 56 mile day through the pines in the 90s. And the pressure for good food, and lots of it, is high. It works out just fine. Tomorrow a new pair takes over. -PJC (4.34'pm)

Lunch beneath a tree in Pemberton

... then on to Chatsworth and our campsite deep in the pines.