Eastbound and down…
Today was a travel day.
After having breakfast at a local restaurant, we headed east toward Clinton, CT a little after noon.
We were only going about 130 miles, but it took us about 4 hours due to all the traffic on I-95. A good part of the time we were only doing about 40 mph.
The only ‘highlight’ of the trip, if you can call it that, was the fact that it cost us $23.75 to cross the Tappan Zee bridge which spans the Hudson River about 25 miles above New York City.
And traffic across the bridge was very slow due to what a flashing sign said was police activity on the bridge. We could see police lights in the distance and a helicopter hovering overhead, but by the time we got to that part of the bridge everybody was gone.
Jan jokingly said “Maybe somebody jumped!”. And it turns out she was right. A 66 year old women from NJ jumped from the bridge and was killed when she hit the pilings at the base of the bridge.
Apparently this happens enough that they have installed phones all along the bridge that connect directly with the Suicide Prevention Hotline.
More tomorrow…
