The trip from start to finish should have lasted two hours, tops. In a state that claims to have enough gardens to boast about it in their state slogan, we expected more. We had left the salt grass and sea lavender behind, bound for Brooklyn. But with the wildlife refuge five miles back, we saw little evidence that New Jersey had bragging rights for anything more than their traffic congestion and asphalt garden stretching from the beach all the way to Staten Island.

For the four and half hours (that should have been two) we had to turn to our fellow travelers on the highway for amusement. We were impressed by the clever names that boat owners had adopted for their yachts. We have compiled a list of our favorite boat names. To qualify for our list the boat needed to incorporate an ocean theme AND a reference to food or drink into its name:

On the Rocks
Aquaholic
Fin & Tonic
Egg-Sta-Sea
Pepsea
Sole Food
Fish n Ships
Tuna Helper
Sea Biscuit
Abercrabby and fish

...And our personal favorite: I cannoli imagine.

Okay, so there's no reference to sea in the last one, but any boat with an Italian dessert in its name deserves credit for trying.