LIGHT AIRCRAFT PILOT ATTEMPTS TO TAXI AT SGJ AFTER DARK WITHOUT AN AIRPORT DIAGRAM. A RUNWAY INCURSION OCCURS ON EACH OF THE THREE RUNWAYS WHILE TAXIING TO RUNWAY 31.

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THE MORALS OF THIS INCIDENT ARE: 1) THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BEING OVER-PREPARED; AND 2) CRM IS A 2-WAY STREET. HAVING FLOWN INTO ST. AUGUSTINE ARPT (SGJ) EARLIER IN THE DAY; I PLANNED TO TAKE OFF INTO THE PATTERN AT NIGHT TO REGAIN MY NIGHT CURRENCY AND THEN RETURN TO MY HOME FIELD. GIVEN THE SMALLNESS OF SGJ; I ANTICIPATED NO PROBS WITH TAXI OUT; EVEN THOUGH I HAD NEVER FLOWN THERE AT NIGHT. BUT; IN MY MIND; I EXPECTED THAT MY TAXI CLRNC WOULD TAKE ME DOWN THE W SIDE OF RWY 2 AND THEN TO PARALLEL RWY 13/31 FOR A WBOUND TKOF. ON CLOSER EXAM OF THE ARPT PLAN LATER ON; I REALIZED THAT THIS RTE DID NOT EXIST; BUT IT WAS TO THAT RTE THAT I HAD ORIENTED MYSELF SUBCONSCIOUSLY ALREADY. BUT; GND GAVE ME AN UNEXPECTED CLRNC OF DELTA 3 TO DELTA TO DELTA 1. I QUICKLY CHKED MY AFD WHICH; OF COURSE; DID NOT INDICATE TXWY NUMBERS. SINCE I COULD SEE DELTA 3 AHEAD OF ME; I DECIDED TO TAXI DOWN IT UNTIL I SAW DELTA. ONCE ON D3; HOWEVER; THE CONFUSION OF LIGHTS AND THE ODD ANGLES OF TXWY AND RWY INTXNS CONSEQUENT TO THE UNUSUAL LAYOUT OF RWYS 2 AND 6 CONFUSED ME AND; ANGLING IN THE DIRECTION I THOUGHT WOULD BRING ME TO THE CONTINUATION OF D3; I FOUND MYSELF TAXIING DOWN RWY 2 WITH NO IMMEDIATE WAY OFF. I IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED GND CTL THAT I WAS 'LOST' AND NEEDED SOME HELP. THE CTLR'S RESPONSE WAS NOT HELPFUL. SHE DID GIVE ME GUIDANCE OFF THE RWY; BUT SHE ALSO GAVE ME A CHIDING AND DISTRACTING LECTURE ON THE COLOR OF RWY AND TXWY LIGHTS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOWING THEM. CHAGRINED; PUT OFF BY THE GND CTLR'S RESPONSE; AND EXPERIENCING A SORT OF 2-DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL DISORIENTATION AMONG THE LIGHTS; I MADE ANOTHER FALSE START ONTO RWY 6; THEN FOUND DELTA AND; IN THE DARKNESS; OVERSHOT THE SOMEWHAT FADED HOLD LINE FOR RWY 31 BY ABOUT 10 FT; ADVISED THE TWR THEREOF AND CLRED A 180 DEG TURN AND TAXIED CLR OF THE RWY ENVIRONMENT. GIVEN MY YRS OF EXPERIENCE AS A PLT; THIS WS AN EMBARRASSINGLY BAD PERFORMANCE. I AM FULLY AWARE THAT I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE AWARE OF THE TXWY PLAN OF THE FIELD AND/OR TAKEN A FIRMER CONTROL OF THE SITUATION AND DEMANDED PROGRESSIVE TAXI INSTRUCTIONS. TRYING TO MINIMIZE THE FUSS AND JUST BULL MY WAY THROUGH TURNED WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A MINOR SITUATION INTO ONE THAT LEFT ME EMBARRASSED AND THE TWR STAFF WONDERING IF THEY SHOULD CLEAR THIS DODDERING OLD FART FOR TKOF. AT THE SAME TIME; I DO THINK THAT THE GND CTLR SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE AWARE OF THE SITUATION AND SPENT MORE TIME GETTING ME DOWN THE ROAD THAN ON LECTURING ME ABOUT LIGHT COLORS; WHICH SHE SEEMED TO PRESUME WAS THE PROB.