the state at 1,803 feet, you will find the War Veteran Monument created by master mason Michael Maddaluna in the late 1920s. Sometimes called “The Obelisk,” the monument is made from New Hampshire granite and Shawangunk quartz and can be seen for miles, and the views from its top reach deep into three different states. Although lunch was had miles back at the Chatterbox, I had saved dessert for a great place right down the road from High Point called the Elias Cole. I have never had a bad meal here, and their pies are worth the trip all by themselves. With renewed sugar and caffeine, I sol-


diered on, heading south and then west on County Road 519, or as I like to call it, “The Mother Road.” It stretches nearly 90 miles from the state line in New York through some of the most pleasant parts of New Jersey’s Sussex, Warren and Hunterdon counties to finally end at the Delaware River halfway down the state. Along this road, with the shadow of the Kittatinny Ridge to the right, I made a stop at Beemer- ville, New Jersey. Yes, for those of you don’t know northwest New Jersey, there is indeed a Beemerville. You will find another curious place here called Space Farms. Part zoo, part museum, and part animal research facility, Space Farms is worth a quick fly by. From there, it was a short ride back


towards home with a very slow putt through one town full of little ghosts, gob- lins and superheroes making the Hallow- een rounds. The XR did not like the five mile per hour stroll through this town one bit.


Home base was not far away, and min-


utes later I rolled the S 1000 XR into the barn just as the sun was heading down and night was rolling in from the east. The last day of Daylight Saving Time was done and that night, before bed, I turned all the clocks in the house back an hour. The next day came up with cold tem-


peratures and spotty rain. It seemed with the changing of the clocks the seasons had dramatically changed, too. I guess it’s all about time.


Water Wheel Farm. December 2015 BMW OWNERS NEWS 81


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