Well, we made it to LI safe and sound, not without a few traffic hassles outside Pittsburgh and NYC. Typical of PA transit to keep closed highways lanes a big secret.....then typical of them to time the stoplights so that only about 3 cars coming from the highway get through, while 20 can get out of the mall.....duh.....Anyway......lots of cursing and swearing coming out of both the driver's and passenger's seat of that Ion. LOL

Driving through New Jersey wasn't as horrendous as we thought it would be. We remembered the Lincoln Highway show on PBS (the real reason we did this in the first place), and a restaurant they mentioned during their journey. It's called Beana's in Rahway, NJ. The claim to fame is that it's Mexican, but owned and operated by an Irishman! It was very good, and it was nice to take a break from driving. They seemed truly impressed that we'd remember them from the show!

We got a bit misdirected (stoopid signs in NJ) when looking for the Lincoln Tunnel. Even though the tunnel has nothing to do with the Lincoln Highway, we still felt it was appropriate to go through there to get to NY. The Lincoln Highway ends at Times Square at 42nd street. We drove through Manhattan and out to LI.

The Empire State Bldg was shrouded in fog, and the top was lit green. Apparently Bill Clinton has declared some sort of green bldg day, and that was the first one to be lit green. They will be renovating it at some point to reduce the electricity bills from $11M to about $4.5M. They'll be switching out about 6000 windows eventually.

Here's what started all of this:
http://www.wqed.org/tv/sebak/lincoln_hwy/blog/