Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Days 8 and 9: The day nothing was open, and skirting New Jersey

Well, the past two days have been somewhat less than exciting. But a good recharge. We left Massachusetts early enough, though we could not for the life of us find anything to do that was actually open on the Monday.

So we decided to go down to Bridgeport and eat at the Merritt Canteen, which has been featured on the Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. I had a 1/3rd pound cheeseburger and my dad had a buffalo burger. Was quite good, if you ever find yourself in Bridgeport Massachusetts, stop by! Good local eatery, and compared to Canada, the US seems to be running short on places like these.

We stopped by Sherwood Island State Park, to get some nice cool ocean air, and at least have a nice setting to plan our route around the urban madness of NYC and Newark areas. So we took the long way around, stopping off in Middletown NY and getting a hotel for the night there.

The next day we kept going west until we got to Pennsylvania and far away from urban areas that will charge the crap out of you just to drive slowly through construction. So, having plenty of time to kill, we drove along the boarder of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On the Pennsylvania side. Taking scenic route 611 for a long ways, we managed to avoid any and all tolls and find a way to Six Flags Great Adventure, with a much better view and a great deal less aggravation than we would have suffered going along the turnpike.

Though, I find it truly bizarre how gas stations rarely have maps, and no one (not even places that really should have then) have postcards anymore. Our GPS has not been doing particularly well with taking us where we want to go in a timely fashion, so yesterday and today were mostly navigated with paper maps, only using the GPS to orient ourselves and find a hotel after we had found the park. A really good dinner at a local diner ended our day, and provided me with the best burger I have had on the trip thus far. Canadian burger, with provolone cheese and nice thick back bacon. So good, tastes like home!

Six Flags Great Adventure tomorrow! Finally time to ride Kingda Ka, El Toro and Nitro! I can hardly wait!

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