January 18, 2010

Rest Stop 1

Date: ~1997

Location: Cheesequake, NJ

 

Description: There are any number of silly named places in the world, and I tried my damndest in high school and beyond to see how many I could visit.  This was probably the first of those such places.  Nestled among the many rest stops along the Garden State Parkway (The Trachea of NJ) stands the Cheesequake Rest Stop.  Surely no place this silly could exist.  But there it did.  It soon became a highlight of any trip down to the NJ shore or, indeed, any trip south.  I think there were even stories of trips being made solely to visit the Cheesequake Rest Stop, though I can’t confirm those outright.  This incarnation of the trip featured several close friends at the time and, if I’m not mistaken, even Susan who I was dating.  This is photographic proof that I had a social life in those days. 

 

 

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