Excellent Adventure or Bogus Journey?

Today began with great promise.  Our spring break began at 2:30 yesterday.  We toyed with going to Cancun for some boobies and daiquiris, but in the interest of finances (right?), we decided to keep it local-ish and go hiking.  The original itinerary involved a trip to the Delaware Water Gap.  We made it as far as the gas station before we decided spending a total of four hours in the car and throwing down a bunch of dollars on tolls to hike for for hours or less would be stupid and pointless. 

We shifted gears and headed to the Pine Barrens instead.  Unfortunately, the GPS took us on a back-asswards path through some strip-mall wastelands and then past Clementon Park (an amusement/water park, for non-South Jerseyians).  I'm not sure if that place has really gone downhill in the last decade and a half or if it has always looked like something from an R. L. Stine book.  Either way, it was a lot smaller and rapey looking than I remember it.

We finally made it to Batsto Village in Wharton State Forest.  After a pleasant but rather flat (I mean, it is New Jersey) four mile loop (where there were, sadly, no sightings of the 13th Leeds child), we ate some peanut butter and jelly sammiches and walked around in Batsto Village.  It's really just a dirt road with about 10 buildings, if you've never been there.  Not exactly a high-stakes adventure, but better than being at work or in our hobbit-hole cave of an apartment.