Day 26: Jersey

On the map, New Jersey looks like one big suburb, being sandwiched right between New York and Philadelphia.  And at first, it sure seemed to fit the bill.  You know it for its bad reputation: sprawling, dirty, the bad accents.  But the beaches, on the other hand, rocked!  We spent the afternoon at Ship's Bottom beach.  The weather was inviting, the sand was fine and white, and even this far up the coast, the water was warm.  

I wish that we would have ended our experience in New Jersey there, on a high note. Yet we continued on into Atlantic City.  It might look nice from the pictures, but really, its something that I'd skip next time.  I didn't think it was as tragic as most people have made it out to be, but it wasn't the "Vegas of the East Coast" either.

We wasted some time wandering up the boardwalk and around the casinos a bit before looking for a place to crash. They were charging an outrageous rate at even the dingiest of motels in the city, so we crashed at a state park off the highway bound for Pennsylvania.

-Brown