Another tidbit from our recent outing (or, as I like to call them:
Mid-Atlantic Coastal Slogs) from NH to VA and back.
Being
older Americans, Mrs. H and I require relatively frequent (ca. 1-1/2 to 2 hour interval) stops when traveling by auto for several
old-person-appropriate reasons. Being
set in our ways in many respects, our stops tend to be at the same waypoints, year after year.
One such waypoint is "The Vince Lombardi truckstop"* -- which, as some of you may know, isn't a truck stop
per se but a rest area at the northern periphery of the New Jersey Turnpike "system", just a wee distance from NY. Yesterday I picked up a brochure there that caught my eye.
Another waypoint is a state-operated rest area at Exit 2 on I-84 northbound in CT,
just past the NY/CT border. There, another brochure caught my eye.
Thought I'd share them here as another fun
distraction from arachnoid tweeter arrays and other tectonic issues.
I don't know about all y'all, but I am seeing a
real opportunity for a Mid-Atlantic Gustatory tour here.
_____________
* In the 1980s, one of my professors, the late Dennis Powers, studied (among other things) evolutionary biology in a species of north American killifish,
Fundulus heteroclitus. His lab was interested in the expression of different isoforms of metabolic enzymes such as ADH (alcohol dehydrogenase) as a function of water temperature. As I recall, the brackish ponds near "
the Vince" (as my family fondly calls the above-mentioned turnpike rest area) were at or near the northern extreme of habitat for these little fish.