Thursday, May 04, 2006
The past day and a half were largely driving, concentrating doggedly on freeway numbers, interchanges, exits for gas or food, then making sure to get back on the correct freeway and headed in the right direction. And most of all endeavouring not to be the meat in a truck sandwich travelling at 70mph.
Leaving Washington was not a good start - got caught in a traffic jam on the ring road, I think at one point it took about 20 minutes to travel 1 mile; took an hour to go 15 miles until I hit Interstate 95 - my friend all the way through to New England. From then on it was simply a challenge to follow all the I95 signs through Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. NY in particular was a challenge as it wound over the upper level of the George Washington Bridge, through the Bronx and out into Connecticut. As I drove through there were glimpses of the famed Manhattan skyline but no time to stop and breathe in the frantic atmosphere of the city. If you look very closely at this picture, the blur on the skyline is the Empire State building taken from the Services Area at the end of the New jersey turnpike.
Up into CT the rain started and turned very heavy for a while. I eventually found a motel in New London (all these New places - today's meeting was originally planned in New Britain) and needed to turn on heaters and add more clothes. From the 80s (F of course) in Washington, it was suddenly in the low 50s. This morning (Thursday) looks much nicer and the next few days are forecast warmer.
Leaving Washington was not a good start - got caught in a traffic jam on the ring road, I think at one point it took about 20 minutes to travel 1 mile; took an hour to go 15 miles until I hit Interstate 95 - my friend all the way through to New England. From then on it was simply a challenge to follow all the I95 signs through Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. NY in particular was a challenge as it wound over the upper level of the George Washington Bridge, through the Bronx and out into Connecticut. As I drove through there were glimpses of the famed Manhattan skyline but no time to stop and breathe in the frantic atmosphere of the city. If you look very closely at this picture, the blur on the skyline is the Empire State building taken from the Services Area at the end of the New jersey turnpike.
Up into CT the rain started and turned very heavy for a while. I eventually found a motel in New London (all these New places - today's meeting was originally planned in New Britain) and needed to turn on heaters and add more clothes. From the 80s (F of course) in Washington, it was suddenly in the low 50s. This morning (Thursday) looks much nicer and the next few days are forecast warmer.
// posted by Mark Northover @ 4:51 AM 
