Brooklyn > Gettysburg PA > New Hope PA > Brooklyn
one night at home.
Brooklyn > Northampton MA> Howe's Caverns NY> Brooklyn
Along the way my car had an event. Please look at the odometer, not the speedometer. But you cal also look at the little trip odometer. In five days we covered 1,030 miles.
My E-ZPass paid money to the Triborough Bridge Authority, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York State Thruway, The Pennsylvania Turnpike, the New Jersey Turnpike, the Massachusetts Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, and the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
I76 from Harrisburg PA to Philadelphia was very nice, as was I 90 from Springfield MASS to Albany NY. I 95 between New York City and New Haven sucks.
One of my favorite thing about road trips is road food. We don't eat fast food. I might get a cup of coffee at a gas station, but we don't eat fast food. We are not in that much of a hurry to have to stand on line and eat off a tray. We get off the highway and eat real food, cooked by real people, served by real people surrounded by other real people. I am not saying that the staff and clients at a McDonalds or a Starbucks are not human beings, but I am saying that they are scripted zombies, serving and consuming sameness across the country.
Diversity is not always so good. Funk's Family Restaurant and Gift Shop in Anneville PA, between Harrisburg and Gettysburg was striving for blaaa.. But my kids did learn that in most of the rest of the country people like a lot of mayonnaise. (and I just found out they double charged my credit card.)
The even had a still life above the counter from back in time
and now......
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