Safe and Sound in Connecticut

Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:21 p.m.
Trip car mileage: 1156 miles

Today I was in seven states: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. A personal new record for most states in one day.

So yesterday and this morning I discovered how fiercely Virginia enforces their speed limit. But then I realized that in other states (aka New Jersey and Connecticut) Speed Limit signs are posted out of some unpracticed sense of American responsibility or as roadway decoration. It was insane, the speed limit was not even a consideration when driving. Like this Porshe:
From this picture you can't tell how fast he's going, so you'll have to take my word that it was about 30 m.p.h over the posted "limit."

The day went by without incident, which makes a wonderful day for me but a fairly unexciting blog. The scenery was BEAUTIFUL still. Pennsylvania is a state full of picturesque farms plotted on rolling hills with weathered red barns. I would have snapped a picture but there was no good pull over place with a vantage point. New York is rolling hills and green, green, green.

Traffic was heavier in New Jersey and New York. But I got to cross the Hudson on a very expansive bridge.

I wish these pictures were better but they were all I could manage today. I literally only stopped once all day. I was trying to cover as much ground as possible in a little time. But the scenery was beautiful. If you have never driven through New England states. . . you MUST. Don't fly, take your time and drive. (Kevin, this has got to be your next roadtrip)

So, I'm at the Falcetti's house, they and their children are sweet, beautiful people and I look forward to getting to know them better over the next two weeks.

I am going to Waterbury tomorrow to start at the newspaper. I should have pictures tomorrow that aren't taken from inside a car.