I’ve been out and about for the last few weeks for various events and for sporting events such as the one I went to today.

I’m working for a parent of a senior on the Newark Academy baseball team - the parent wants me to take photos and videos of the team playing for their baseball banquet at the end of the season (June 6th).

So, after not having gone to a lot of games, I hit the road. Newark Academy is in Livingston, right across from my local Barnes and Noble, so it’s fairly easy to get to there. Parking isn’t a hassle either.

But today they had an away game scheduled with Governor Livingston High School. Which is in Beverly Ht. Township - aka who knows where up in the mountains. Almost literally. The last photo in the group above was over a hundred feet above the ground. The rain clouds just drifted across the field…

So JFK Parkway was down due to construction on an overpass bridge, so I spent my time doubling back around places, U-turning through a few misguided dead-ends, and then found myself in the small parking lot of GLHS. Which is a good 3/4 mile from the baseball field. I double check my map, and my GPS points out a road that doubles back around the field.

Being already late, I sprint back to my car, double back around onto the road, and then notice, after nearly hitting a tree trunk, that the road was unconditioned with trees down all the way up the road. The entrance to the road (which was a bridge over I-78) wasn’t labeled as blocked or closed. So I made a U-turn in the single lane before going back down and just sneaking my car through GLHS’s parking lot gate down the same road, just the other direction.

Once I got down by the field, I gawked at the tennis courts (IMG_0728), which were basically overrun by overgrowth. It was rather shocking…

Oh, and the high altitude is explained by the fact that the school was built on the site of a Nike missile control station, operational 1958 through April 1963.

The school is also right next to the AT&T-Bell Labs, which is this giant place in Murray Hill with a field of solar panels… I drove past it once or twice trying to find GLHS.

So yeah. That was my day.

Which leaves the QOTD. You can answer in the reply box below, or via submission or ask.

“What’s the craziest thing your GPS has ever done to you? Or what’s the craziest driving you’ve ever had to do trying to find a venue?”