The Conclusion to the Land of no Sweet Tea
- wanderingwonderbread
- Jan 1, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 1, 2020
The Trip Home:
The trip back home was mostly uneventful, lots of traffic as other holiday travelers made their way home. I did get a chance to stop at one of the giant service centers (rest stops) on the New Jersey Turnpike. We made a stop at the Molly Pitcher service center. It has a full service gas station (in New Jersey they pump your gas for you), a little Starbucks truck outside serving coffees along with a full Starbucks inside. The inside of the center reminded me of an airport terminal. Bathrooms, gift shops, and a rather large food court. Was a nice place to stop and stretch your legs. I got a fresh Auntie Anns pretzel for the road, and it was yummy.
Conclusion on trip:
No Sweet tea unless you buy bottled from the store. A travesty for someone like myself who relies on their caffeine fixes from sweet tea and not coffee
Crazy drivers… Besides the reckless speeding all over the place, I also saw turn lanes being used as passing lanes… Not just once, but multiple times a day. They would just zoom around traffic using the turn lanes and on a few of those occasions I almost witnessed head on collisions as they then had to swerve to not hit the poor sap actually trying to use the turn lane how it’s intended.
Unfriendly people in public. I am not saying every person I met was unfriendly but while out on trails I’d say a little ’hi’ to people passing by and they would give this look that clearly said ‘why the hell are you talking to me?’ In the South, you usually find people more cheerful and happy to say hi to people in passing. I clearly gave myself away as a tourist.
Basic bagels. I am sorry but there was absolutely no difference in the bagels. Maybe the New York City bagels are actually different? Otherwise I really do not understand the hype around the NY bagels.
Bialy are amazing. I will be trying to order them from Amazon or something to get them back home.
Really cool, unique beaches. Purple sand, pebbly and/or boulders. Just a cool experience. I really enjoyed seeing so many different beaches.
Overall, I had an amazing time. It was such a wonderful experience getting to explore so many new places and trying new foods. I hope to make it back one day in a warmer season to really experience Long Island life. Maybe one day I will get to venture in to New York City as well. I only saw a small portion of a large state, I look forward to one day returning and getting to continue my adventures.
After I go through my hundreds of photographs I took on my Canon T7, I will do a little photograph gallery of my favorite shots of my trip. A recap in photographs.
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