Monday, October 22, 2007

New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge 2007

This weekend, Mark and I participated in the 8th Annual New Jersey Lighthouse Challenge.

The challenge is to visit all of New Jersey's 11 land-based lighthouses. At each lighthouse, you receive a token. At your last lighthouse, you present all your tokens and receive your Challenge souvenir. It was a lot of driving, but fun and informative. It gave us the opportunity of exploring our own state, which we often are too busy to do. After the lighthouse in Absecon, we got our eats on at the Waterfront Buffet in Harrah's Casino. Needless to say, we were all food-comatosed afterwards and went straight to sleep. A good night's sleep and a great continental breakfast at the Fairfield Inn Marriott gave us the energy to complete the rest of the challenge. Maryland and Long Island also sponsors lighthouse challenges during the year. Maybe we'll check those out next time. An awesome trip!



More pix here

5 comments:

nimpa said...

this sounds awesome...i would love to try one of these challenges.

nimpa said...

love the pics!!!

Theresa A said...

it was great! a lot of people brought their kids too.

8oNg8oNg said...

Be prepared, you will get a work out. It was cool until my knee and ankle started acting up.
ako I matunda na.

www.munkiy.com said...

tha tdoes sound really cool. we probably have something like that here with missionary checkpoints, but like Ging said, nobody really explores their own state. But now, I am going to look into it. Thanks!!