The East Coast in 48 hours (or - more picspam!)
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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.
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.
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Re: you are very mean to my home!
Date: 14 Aug 2006 01:14 (UTC)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