On our way west.
There was supposed to be a fixed rate for the taxi trip to Newark Airport but the driver delivered us to our rental car firm and wanted to be paid twice the rate. We should have insisted on being taken to the airport entrance. All rental firms have a free bus to your car.

Now we begin to take two hour turns at the wheel with navigation service by the other front seat passanger.

We drove west through New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Our first Motel was typical. Clean but not very fancy.

Mostly we took two rooms. Almost all motel rooms have two queen size beds. On a couple of occasions where the prices were higher we doubled up in one room. There was almost allways a TV, air conditioning and swimming pool, however small.

Motel Rates are about $45 to 65 and sometimes +$6
for each extra person in the room. It sometimes paid
to question the price. Average cost for the trip was $21.50 per person and night.






Pennsylvania
William Penn's woodland paradise

This photo was taken on highway 655 through the Appalachian Mountians - also known as Amish country.

(Taken from a moving car! Sometimes you get lucky)

The Amish put upp religious signs about every mile. Understandable - there are a lot of tourists driving through to possibly influence.

In the eastern states you quite often see a graveyard beside the road or in the middle of the town. No wall, no church, just suddenly there - always lots and lots of plastic flowers.