Day 6: Macedonia, OH to New Haven, CT (522 mi)

We have arrived in New Haven! The many long days of driving are over. We are staying in a hotel tonight and moving into our apartment tomorrow. From the apartment, we will have no internet access for a few days, so this is the last post for a while. I'll just take you through our trip more-or-less in the order in which we saw it today.

As we were driving through the "mountains" of Pennsylvania, Rachel observed that the trees seemed to be "exuding fog". Eventually, the trees released enough fog into the atmosphere that it came pelting to the earth in the form of a lot of rain in a very small amount of time.

A couple of images of the fog-exuding trees of Pennsylvania.

Some time during that rain storm, we stopped for lunch. Lunch itself wasn't all that exciting (Rachel got something at KFC and I went to Burger King), but I spotted the following billboard while waiting for Rachel to get her lunch.

A billboard somewhere in Pennsylvania.

This could technically be read in the way they meant it, but I prefer to believe that they are willing to sell you fish and chips for a kiss.

Continuing on our drive through Pennsylvania, there were various signs telling us of things "next # miles" (deer next 5 miles, for example). The best signs, though, were the ones that said "Buckle up next million miles". (For comparison, the circumference of the earth is about 22,000 miles.)

As we continued to go through the hills of Pennsylvania, we came across what we considered a humorous sign which read "Highest point on I-80 east of the Mississippi 2250 feet". Considering that, on I-80, we had been over 8000 feet just a couple of days before, this was a little sad.

The last surprise of the trip came about 30 miles inside of New York. We had been traveling along a freeway (I-84) with a speed limit of 65 ever since Scranton, PA when we came across signs warning of reduced speed ahead. No problem, but when we got to the speed zone, the speed limit dropped to 55 mph and it was declared that this was the state speed limit. We just wondered why, if the state speed limit is 55 mpg, we were allowed to go 65 mph for 30 miles inside the state before the state limit was imposed.

As mentioned above, we move into our apartment tomorrow. We'll have to get the key, then transfer the cats. It'll be fun. :-)