Trip

Going, driving to Cleveland, Ohio is not much fun. I did the trip several times and as much as I like being there the getting there is the difficult part. My wife did the trip a lot more than I did because most of the time I had to stay home to babysit for Abigail and Robin. But this time it was just Robin and us two. The trip is about 480 miles, mainly on I-80. That alone is not bad because the average speed limit is about 70 miles per hour. However, at that speed everybody leaves you in the dust. It is amazing how fast people drive. Actually, we did, too.

I always tell my wife, drive with the flow. That is the safest way not getting a ticket. 480 miles take us about 7 1/2 to 8 hours of driving. The most boring part is Pennsylvania. That alone is about 310 miles of woodlands, the Poconos and countryside. I dread that part. It is long and boring. Pennsylvania has some very peculiar locality names along this road. One is Snowshoe. Why in the world they name a town Snowshoe? The other one is Jersey Shore. 

Can you imagine one says he owns a home in Jersey Shore and people will say ooh, aah, this person has a home on the Jersey Shore, not realizing that this Jersey Shore is a small town of about 4,100 people in the middle of Pennsylvania, with no ocean access. Why such a weird name? Then there is Corsica. Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to France. Why was this town named after that island? Did they run out of names and had to pick these weird names? South of Cleveland there is a town named Macedonia. On these drives one has the felling that he is traveling around the world.