New York City - 405 Miles

Highway 80. It's tough to flaneur your way along America's Interstate system. I am often so insanely determined to reach my destination, I hesitate to exit at say Punxsutawney and go looking for Phil. Or maybe we could stop off in College Station. "We'll stop on the way home." But I doubt we will.

Nonetheless, as we left Pennsylvania and entered New Jersey, it was as if it were New York City already. Cars zoomed past the little Camry from Indiana, scoffing I'm sure at my close adherence to the 65 speed limit. Black suburbans with the cool white and blue New York plates weaved through traffic, equally determined to reach their destination. We were still 60 miles away from the city notorious for bad driving. Is this already considered the suburbs? I smiled and kept my eyes on the road.

Montclair, New Jersey, 14 hours from Bloomington, Indiana.