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Tue, 14 Apr 2009

Traffic to Pennsylvania

It is a wonderful drive down to Pennsylvania. It isn't too far; we can get there in a single day. Much of the way, there is little traffic. We like to go out to Albany, NY and then south, traveling through the rolling hills of farmland. Interstate Route 88 connects easily from 90 (which is the Mass Turnpike that takes us west to Albany from home in Massachusetts).

Interstate 88 rolls southwest through beautiful New York farm country and we continue south on Interstate 81 starting at Binghamton, NY near the PA border, and traffic is light. It isn't the shortest route, but I prefer the reduced traffic instead of the speed of getting there. I am no particular fan of going through Hartford, CT on the shorter route.

Maybe everyone was home finishing their tax returns, but, I suppose it could have been that the economy is bad, especially in northeast rural Pennsylvania and the Central Leatherstocking region of New York.

We did "my way not the highway" by getting off of 81 at New Milford, Pennsylvania, getting on US route 11 which had almost no traffic at all except for town traffic along the way. We got the chance to see a train bridge in the town of Nicholson. It was regarded the 9th wonder of the world, built back in 1912-1915. It is called the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct. Also see Wikipedia Article.