Day 1: Pennsylvania is a big state…

It wasn’t quite 9am when we crossed the Delaware Gap into Pennsylvania. So far, so good!
We could already feel like we were “someplace else”, as the landscape had changed from the built-up congestion that surrounds the New York metro area on all sides, to a more picturesque countryside.
There were mountains — the Appalachians — the [...]
Day 1: New Jersey, headed west…

On “D-Day” we were up at 4, but took a little longer than planned to get out of the driveway. Daylight had already broken, and crossing the Verrazano Bridge, we could see the city clearly. The quiet majesty of the stone-and-steel towers glimmered in the early morning light, before receding into the distance. We were [...]