Ever been to the Pine Barrens? Aptly named. It is one very desolate spot. Miles and miles of nothing. Except for pine trees of course :)
My college roomate got married in a church way out in the Piney boondocks. I remember driving like 80 mph down some desolate road to “get him to the church on time”.
Only went there once at night, we all spooked each other with stories about the albino villagers and eventually lost our nerve and drove back out.
I lived in NJ for 8 years. I lived and worked in a rural area in the NW. For projects on the southern coast we would drive from our rural area, through Trenton, and then the Pine Barrens.
Those miles in the Pine Barrens were LONG. And every time it amazed me how NJ could be the most densely populated state. “Boy - they must really pack them in, in Newark.”