Bike Trip 2013
I went on a bike trip recently through the land of my birth: South Jersey. If you don’t know what the Pine Barrens are, please look them up or read John McPhee’s excellent book The Pine Barrens. Or just go and visit, because it is a unique ecosystem that is often overshadowed by the areas (the shore, suburban and industrial New Jersey, various nearby cities that are in other states) around it. You can go swimming in algae-free lakes (a result of the water and soil composition), and much of the area is protected state parks, so it’s free or really cheap to camp and play there! (And hopefully will always be that way.) (Caveat: I am not from the Pine Barrens, but from a suburban area nearby, the Barrens are very rural and sparsely populated.) Here are some photos of the trip: