Yesterday's travel was surprisingly eventful.
Running into traffic on I-84 from Hartford to the New York border was expected.
But the highlight was the Prius from South Carolina with around 50 bumper stickers placed all over it. It traveled the speed limit in the fast lane, and then as I approached, it would drift over to the right lane without signaling. Then, straddling the dashed line, it would then put on its left turn signal and go back into the left lane. It did this several times, until finally moving over to the right to let me pass. Then it proceeded to speed up and match our speed. We both got up to around 85-90, until it finally decided to slow down. They were also drifting a bit at other times, as if the driver was high. I'd have thought they were going to Burning Man, but there were no bicycles. Hippies!
What's the point of driving a Prius if you drive at 85 mph?
Then there was the van that was almost completely burned. It was still smoldering, with about a half-dozen emergency vehicles and two other passenger vehicles, around it. The horrible smoke smell filled our truck. The van was already reduced to a metal shell, everything else had already combusted.
The lowlight was the crack-headedness of GPS. You would think that, having three GPS devices in the truck, we wouldn't be sent too astray. But there was the guided trip to the Wal-Mart that got us on a gravel road in buttfudge PA. We finally found the Wal-Mart about half a mile from where the mapping software said it was. THEN there was the GPS route that sent us astray onto exurban roads in State College, PA, trying to get to the Motel 6 at 11pm. When we finally got there, it was sold out, although at 2pm the Motel 6 web site said there was a rooom available. So we had to drive until almost 1am to the Super 8 in Brookville, PA (where I'm typing this now). This GPS crack-headedness, plus the Motel 6 being sold out, probably cost us more than an hour, because the Motel 6 was about 20 miles off of I-80.
Other than that, the trip was uneventful. Here's our route from yesterday:
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