OK we got ANOTHER call from the shipper- they DO want the cherries in Massachusetts by Sunday. Luckily we had gotten an early start anyway –knowing that we were only an hour or so from Chicago and we wanted to get around the city as early as possible. Since we were early and because it was Saturday we decided to take I-90 straight through the city—and I do mean through the city. Here is a picture to show how close we were to downtown. And the highway goes right by the Chi-sox stadium so I got a shot of that too.
Even for a Saturday it was a little hairy getting through Chicago but once we hit Indiana we were off and running. We followed I-90 through Indiana and into Ohio and then veered more south on to I-80 near Cleveland. Lots of beautiful countryside in all those states—farms, trees, lakes, gentile rolling hills. We drove into the evening and stopped at the next to last rest area in Pennsylvania before you enter NJ. (And we were glad we had stopped there because the last rest area was closed due to the flooding of the Delaware River- as we discovered in the morning.)
A highlight was two kinds of fireworks- the first were the wonderful little fireflies that came out at dusk. They were very visible as little flashes of light along the shoulder. Several hit the windshield and they remained lit for about 5 seconds and appeared as tiny neon green specks. And... Since we were traveling through a resort area- the Pocono’s- in the evening we were treated to several fireworks displays over the trees from numerous unseen cabins.
788 miles total today.
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