Cathy,

If you can find alternate ways to travel that don't use the Garden State, you might be able to see 11 lights. We spent last weekend there and, like New York, will not venture to that state anytime soon if we have to use the Garden State. Bumper to bumper from one toll booth to the next all day Saturday; everyone travelling into New Jersey on Sunday was dealing with the same thing that day as well. We were headed back to CT and were truly grateful we weren't on the other side. I'm not familiar with how the challenges work, but if you can navigate using your own routes, etc. strongly suggest that you have a plan to circumvent the traffic tieups.