Lunch in the Pinelands of New Jersey

     Today, 25/9/2026, I was visiting Wharton State Forest near Shamong, NJ on Route 206, and I had lunch at a place that my parents talked about often: Pic-A-Lilli Inn, 866 US-206, Shamong, NJ (609-268-2066) in Burlington County. 

     I was about seven when my parents took my brothers and me there, but all I remember about that visit was my eating a sandwich and my parents telling me that this was a nice bar and not a dive.

     Since then, I have seen it mentioned on TV, but until today, I haven’t been there. Anyway, I did go on the date above and I did see why they raved about their Buffalo chicken wings and crab soup! It was good. The bar looked fine and it was not a dive, and it was only a mile or less from Atsion Lake at Wharton State Forest—a place that I’ve swam in a few times.

     There are many more items on the menu, and the prices are reasonable.

   

Picnic in New Jersey

     I went to a picnic, run by a local Star Trek club at Ft. Mott, NJ. It was the usual hamburgers and hot dogs, but they tasted great to me after recovering from the Norovirus and losing my taste buds for weeks!

 

PA Trip 2026

      9/August/2026: I went to Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania to Sorrento’s Italian Restaurant to a friend’s 60th birthday party, and a splendid time was had by all! While the party went on, a slide show covering bits of my friend’s life went on—or her life being a Star Trek fan, and she has been a fan since she was a child in the 1970s! Meanwhile, we were all treated to a free meal there.

Note

     If you read Dotty’s Dimensions, Volume 2, Issue 1 online, you will notice an off centered place holder that was supposed to be an illustration of city buildings. This was old clip art used in Microsoft’s Word product of 1997-2003. The only part of the text missing is a section of the first two lines of the opening paragraph, and that pretty much gave a greeting for the new year of 2001, plus I also mentioned it was the first anniversary of publishing Dotty’s Dimensions. Therefore, you haven’t missed much. The rest of the text is readable.