We made it to Richmond, Indiana for the night after a very long
day of driving. Our day started out in Syracuse, New York and the weather had
definitely changed from the rain we experienced yesterday! When we began
driving at about 9:45am it was already 64 F (18 C) and sunny! The temperature
got hotter and hotter as we moved inward and by the time we stopped for the
night it was 86 F (30 C)! Those temperatures are what I normally do not
experience until July and August! When I left Nova Scotia, the average
temperatures were a high of 45 F (7 C)! In fact, we had light snow flurries on
the weekend before we left.
Took this picture on a highway in Ohio just to show you how
nice it was!
We spent many hours finishing our drive through New York
state and did not reach the Pennsylvania
State line until 1:45pm, when the temperature had reached 74 F (23 C). I
had my camera ready to take a picture of the state sign but as luck would have
it, a tractor trailer was driving by at the exact moment and so I did not get a
picture to share with you. I did,
however, get a picture of something that mentions the State line J
Pennsylvania State Line
I had to take a picture of the sign that showed a turnoff
towards Pittsburgh, the new home of Sidney Crosby! For those that do not
know him, he is the captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins, the face of the NHL, and
from my hometown of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia (see below) :-)
We reached Ohio in about an hour, at around 2:45pm, and had another long drive ahead of us through that state. To make the miles pass more quickly we began counting them in 10 mile increments instead of the overwhelming 200+ mile chunks of time Mapquest measured out for us. I remember driving through Ohio on the last trip we made from Kansas to Nova Scotia in July. It was the 4th of July when we drove through that state and there were road work detours the majority of the trip. Nothing seems to have changed much - the road work simply has moved to the other side of the highway and we are driving through it going in this direction now. When we weren’t driving through road work, there was traffic. There were some peaceful parts of the drive and on those stretches we saw farm, after farm. To sum up Ohio - road work, traffic and farms.
Ohio is more famously known for its buckeye trees so I
snapped a few photos of trees, having no idea what a buckeye looked like, but assuming
that if there are so many buckeyes in the state of Ohio that they name their
sports teams after them, I should have no problem capturing one in a picture.
Let’s see if I was successful. Here is a picture of a buckeye that I found on
the internet:
And here are my pictures:
Another thing I noticed while driving in New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio were the black butterflies. They were everywhere in the
air! I am not sure what they were but they were plentiful! From moose to
butterflies J
That is quite a contrast in wildlife J
We
crossed the Ohio/Indiana state line around 8pm.
The sign says Thank you for visiting Ohio!
I missed getting a
picture of the Indiana state sign but as soon as we passed that there was a
giant cross on the right hand side of the road in Richmond, Indiana. I think we
have just entered the Bible belt!
More later today or tomorrow about our travels from Richmond, Indiana to ????????
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