70 towns, five counties, one van.

Our home county. Plainfield sits on its western edge, so Union County gets the shortest runs we make — Fanwood and Scotch Plains are inside seven minutes, and everything from Westfield and Summit down to Rahway, Linden and Elizabeth is a normal day.

Straight across Route 22 and Route 28 from home. North Plainfield and Green Brook are minutes away, and the run carries on west through Bound Brook, Bridgewater and Somerville and up into the Somerset Hills at Basking Ridge, Bedminster and Far Hills.

South and east down North Avenue, Route 1 and Route 27 — Dunellen and South Plainfield first, then Piscataway, Metuchen and Edison, and on through Woodbridge to New Brunswick, Perth Amboy and the bay towns.

North-east over the Watchungs on Springfield Avenue and Route 24 — Millburn and Short Hills, Maplewood and South Orange, Livingston, and the city itself from Irvington through Newark and the Oranges.

North over the ridge into the Passaic valley and beyond — Long Hill, Chatham and Madison, then Harding, Florham Park and the Route 10 corridor up to Morristown and Hanover.