earle 2

Last January, I featured a photo of Naval Weapons Station Earle due west of Sandy Hook.

The part of Earle shown above–a rail line used for transporting weapons and such–is located much further inland. Earle, as it turns out, is actually two bases (“Main-side,” located around Colts Neck, and the “Waterfront Area,” located around Sandy Hook) connected by Normandy Rd., a 15-mile rail/road line.

For more information, read Globalsecurity.org’s summary.

 

bypass

Just to confuse anyone unfamiliar with the road, Rte-33 splits into two separate Route 33s: 33 Business, which cuts through town (Freehold, I think), and 33 Bypass (?), which bypasses town. But they’re both Rte. 33.

(See here for a map of the roads splitting.)

(If you take the wrong one, don’t worry too much: they do merge back together eventually.)

 

things to do at 4:50PM in new jersey

A year in review. All of these photos were taken at exactly 4:50PM, give or take a minute. Don’t believe me? Click on each photo to go to its Flickr page, then check out its EXIF data, available under “More properties” in the right-hand column (“Additional Information”) underneath where it specifies what kind of camera I used.

Hope it was a good year for all of you, and here’s wishing you an even less stressful 2008!

 

hubcaps!

There is a road, heading west from the Ocean Township/Neptune area… I think it’s Rte. 33 or 34, but I’d love to be corrected (I’m never the one driving)…

Ed.: Dawn Cartwright has informed me that it is ROUTE 33, between Neptune and Freehold.

On this road, there is, and always has been, a collection of hubcaps, strung out across a fence for all of New Jersey to see.

Yes, this is a blurry photo, but it was taken at 55mph from the backseat with a non-DSLR camera. Hopefully, I’ll replace it with a sharper image at some point in the future, but for now, you get to behold the hubcap-full wonder that is NJ.

 

muddled puddle

In and of itself, rain doesn’t bother me too much.

But this whole ‘rain for a week, clear up for a day, rain for another week’ thing is really starting to bug me.

 

drivin’ 2

Route 34, somewhere around Holmdel or Colts Neck.

(Me? Take photographs while driving? Of course not; that’s dangerous.)

 

things to do at a red light

There are a lot of stop lights in New Jersey, especially on the roads I frequent.

Often, I use the red light as an opportunity to stick my head out the window and try to make art out of whatever highway ugliness currently surrounds my car. (Example, taken about 10 minutes before.)

As I was hanging out of the window at this particular stop light, a black Mini drove up beside me and beeped. The driver enthusiastically indicated that he wanted his picture taken.

So here we go. Honest-to-goodness New Jersians. The girlfriend looks a little mortified.

 

biiicycle

Biiicycle!
Biiicycle!
Biiicycle!
I want to ride my bicycle!
I want to ride my bike!
I want to ride my bicycle!
I want to ride it where I like!

(A portion of the Sandy Hook bike trail.)