Our journey is complete! It was only a fifth of the way across the US but it felt like more. The freedom of the open road! And of people living their lives in parks, museums, restaurants, beer gardens, apple orchards, covered markets, shopping malls... (Our hosts kept us busy!)
Except of course our drive across Ohio, a spit of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey meant crossing a multiply-blighted land, the blight
often metastasizing in the form of lawn signs with the name of our super
spreader president. Ohio's one of many states
which have been recording new records in coronavirus infections recently, so we've gone straight from turnpike to quarantine, as New York State requires; good thing I got myself an absentee ballot for the election next week!
