Batman's 1st TT TR! Camping in the Pine Barrens.

“Scorch and I woke up about 7:30am on Monday morning and ate a quick breakfast of cereal and grits with a quick fix of pumpkin pie ; )

Got on the road about 8:15am to head up to the Pine Barrens. Found out that the PA Turnpike workers were on strike and were charging a flat rate of $2 no matter which ramp you got on (whatta jip in our case).

After a gruesome 1.5 hour drive, we arrived at the Batsto Visitor's Center at the Pine Barrens in NJ. We signed up for a night of car camping at the Batona Campsite, bought some firewood since it's now legal to have a fire at this campsite, and trucked another half hour over to the site. (We opted for car camping since Scorch cannot hike on her knee for ~2 months or so).

We set up "Tent Mahal" (Scorch's ROOOOOOOMY 10 person mansion of a tent) and brought along the Hennessey Hammock for comfort and our new 2 person Mountain Hard Wear Light Wedge tent. It was the first time we've been camping together (awww) so we wanted to set up our first tent to test it out. After we set up camp, we gathered some firewood, got a fire started, and ate some enertia meals. After deciding that we didn't need to eat backpacking meals while car camping, we made a looooong trip to the closest deli and got some hoagies (nasty ones at that).

We hung around camp, kept the fire going, talked, ate dinner, (no drinking!), yadda yadda yadda, went to bed.

Around 1am, just as we were drifting to sleep, Scorch heard a truck that sounded like it was stuck in the sand and closeby. We then heard voices that were arguing (males). Scorch got scared (DID NOT!) and after about 10 minutes the truck must have gotten freed of the sand and sped off with yelling voices trailing.

Woke up around 9am or so.... ate, started a fire, made another food run since we were planning on staying another night, and chilled out. Scorch made a phone call to see what the weather would be like for the night and when we found out it was supposed to rain, we opted to head out instead of staying.

Packed up and headed out around 3pm or so.

Pictures to come.”

“who the heck is batman..where is Robin..the joker is loose..catwoman is purring...the penguin is freezing my a$$ off

Batman get off your duff and do your job”

“Scorch gone nuts? Talking about "we" and "scorch" in the third person?
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“Pictures:

http://community.webshots.com/album/225320185fxpFJj”

“Sorry, batman luke posted it under my name,.. wasn't talking about myself in the third person.”

“No need to explain.....princess's often speak in 3rd person. ;)”

“hardly!”

“Nice shots, I've hiked right threw that site before. Oh and btw.. Welcome home Batman Luke!”

“Nice report Green lantern! I liked the photos too.

You guys should be the wonder twins”

“Wonder Twin TT power activated!

Scorch - Form of a Bear!
Batman - Shape of Filtered Water!”

“So he's back from Japan I take it? When are you moving to VA?”

“he's only back on leave until december 15th, then he goes back to japan for 2 weeks, then back to the states on the 1st of january (or the 7th, not sure yet). then he doesn't go to norfolk, va until feb 21st. i'll start looking for a job the beginning of february. the sooner i find a job, the sooner i move down there.”

“My cousin lived there for 4 years while her husband was in the Navy...if you want to know some good neighborhoods to live I can find out for you. She lived in a crummy one or two and then a couple good ones.”

“Nice report you car camping slackers! As IF a little rain would keep a REAL BACKPACKER away ;)

Just messing with ya. As long as you had fun thats all that matters.


So, did you two do it?”

“heyyyy Scorchy, good report u car camping dork you. lol ;)

Can't believe you guys got hoaggies.

awww, he looks so happy:

freakn' webshot prolly not gonna work again.”

“welcome back, o lover of civilians
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“SC and Gem.... well since i can't backpack due to my knee, i kinda had to opt for car camping if i wanted to get a bag night in!

SC, of course we did!”

“just kidding Scorch! I know you have a knee problem right now.LOL”

“: D”

“One bag or two?

Y'all can visit Pat Robberson in Virginia Beach!

It's a regular Sin City down there!
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“2 bags equivalent to 1,.. gotta love mateable ; )”

“Glad you got a bag night with your injury. BackSlacker, PhantomSoul and I were just there 3 weeks ago, (on the trip you bailed on, slacker!) so kinda cool to see it again.

Batona drove us a little nuts because a large Civilian Air Patrol group was camped there and we finally figured out they were camped right over the trail. Since we went around their camp we lost the pretty pink blazes for a while.”

“pink.... pretty, pretty pink.

yea, the blazes literally go RIGHT through the batona campsite.”

“and why wasn't I invited on this trip?!?

- glad to see the batman back on home turf!

:~)”

“it was a very private trip ; )”