The East Coast in 48 hours (or - more picspam!)

[earthbelow]

The Top Ten Things I Learned While Driving Up the Eastern Seaboard in A 4-Door Car

1. Never underestimate the importance of having a good playlist to drive by.

2. Those blue signs with gas, food, and hotel pictures in little boxes are very useful. Pay attention to them.

3. You can judge a state by the bathrooms in it's visitor's centers. Because South Carolina had a wonderful visitor's center and is, in fact, a rockin' state. New Jersey looked like a disaster area with lots of refuges and small, dirty children without shoes.

4. The people who work at visitor's centers are very helpful and you should take advantage of their vast knowledge of their state. And ya know, free maps. And bathrooms. Visitor's centers are a little piece of genius.

5. Pointing towards where you want the driver to turn and saying the opposite thing is an easy way to cause a multi-car pileup on the interstate.

6. Nothing will get you more than the 4 P's - Piss Poor Prior Planning.

7. Go to the bathroom at the rest stop/visitor's center/gas station even if you don't think you need to. Because South Carolina is a very big state on a full bladder.

8. Cruise control is your friend.

9. Exits with letters are not all the same thing. 14C will take you to a much different place than 14B.

10. The New Jersey Turnpike is a little piece of hell on Earth. It is made of suck. I am sure many solid marriages have been broken up on the New Jersey Turnpike. If you can survive two hours in Jersey, you can survive anything.





  

  

  

  




  

  

  

  




  

  

  

  

Comments

you are very mean to my home!

[wisdomeagle]

Well I don't like the south, either, so there! :p

Re: you are very mean to my home!

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Well I don't like the south, either, so there! :p

Aww. Well, to be fair to New Jersey, it was just the turnpike that was really, really bad.

And that's probably half New York's fault anyway.

There was really pretty country side in some parts, if that makes my harsh anti-Jersey comments more bearable.

I am sorry I was mean to your home. It just...needs a better turnpike. :)

- Meg

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

So what does it say that I survived 6 1/2 years and learned to be a TP fan in New Jersey?

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

Uh, that you're superwoman?

I'm sure if I spent less non-turnpike time in New Jersey, I'd like it.

Wow, didn't realize there were so many Jersey fans on my f-list!

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

It's hard to be a fan when you're 8. Also? Never had to drive the turnpike--not even when I was there recently.

New York City subways are confusing though. At least trying to get from Penn to Grand Central was.

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

New York City subways are confusing though. At least trying to get from Penn to Grand Central was.

They're a bit confusing. I've had The Boy to guide me around them and show me how to work them, so I'm not *as* confused.

Grand Central is pretty confusing in and of itself, but at least it's also pretty to go along with the confusing.

Fortunately, it seems like from where we live there are a couple of subway lines that basically take you anywhere you need to go or at least to the line that can.

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

My problem was figuring out which end of the station had the line that went to Grand Central. Once I was at Grand Central, finding the rest of the TP contingent was pretty easy. :)

[exiledtimelord.livejournal.com]

I've never been to Jersey, so I can't comment on there. I know your view of the turnpike sounds a lot like my view of the Interstate in Nashville. Both of them. :)

BTW, dear, I need your NY snail mail. :)

[thousandpages.livejournal.com]

I know your view of the turnpike sounds a lot like my view of the Interstate in Nashville. Both of them. :)

They are, in fact, comparable. Except there's LESS construction on the Turnpike. Nashville is The City of Construction.

BTW, dear, I need your NY snail mail. :)

Yes you do. It'll be hitting inboxes shortly!