Reading, PA

It wasn't Plains, Trains, and Automobiles, but it was close. Apparently there was a "bridge problem" in New York, and the efficient and effective government-subsidized disaster that is Amtrak had to shut down the Acela for an undetermined amount of time. As I pondered spending some quality time later this summer on the Delta Shuttle, I was faced with the short-term problem of being stuck 1-1/2 hours north of Philadelphia with a rental car. Here's the way the evening panned out for me:

5:15pm Leave client location in Reading, head north to I-78.
5:32pm 50 Cent's Candy Shop plays on Sirius Satellite Radio.
6:31pm Heavy traffic north of Reading (early sign of trouble). Now on I-78 East.
7:12pm 50 Cent's Candy Shop plays on Sirius Satellite Radio.
8:17pm Take NJ Turnpike north to the Lincoln Tunnel.
8:35pm Tunnel traffic is too much to bear, head north to the George Washington Bridge.
8:42pm 50 Cent's Candy Shop plays on Sirius Satellite Radio.
9:01pm Arrive at the rental car return on 77th Street.

Next Day
7:42am Arrive at work, 50 Cent's Candy Shop firmly implanted in my brain.....