Pennsylvania to New York

We drove from Pittsburgh to New York today—about 7 hours (the longest stretch we’ve had so far). I started our journey by driving through the mountains—it was gorgeous. But, it was a bit scary driving around curves and through tunnels in the mountains.

Andrew did his best to capture the beauty of the green mountains. The pictures don’t do it justice!

 

I drove through 4 of these tunnels while gripping the steering wheel very tightly, especially when driving next to trucks!!

 

We switched driving at lunch time and thank goodness we did because I would not have liked driving through New York! Andrew did such a good job! I'm glad we only had to drive through New York once. (After the game, we will be going to White Plains to park our car at a friend's house and taking public transportation into the city.) I thought Chicago drivers were bad...I was wrong!! No one uses turn signals, they cut across multiple lanes at a time, and they don't know how to merge.

The New York skyline

Andrew also had to drive through a tunnel…under the Hudson River! It was much longer than any of the tunnels in Pennsylvania!

We drove to Queens where the Mets play at Citi Park. When we got  there, we parked then walked around a bit.

We saw Billie Jean King National Tennis Center where the U.S. Open takes place each year.

The Unisphere constructed for the 1964 New York World’s Fair. Many of you may recognize it from the opening credits of King of Queens. We were going to try to recreate that scene from the opening for a picture, but people would have thought we were crazy rolling around in the grass.

Apparently, no one reads signs in New York!