Georg's travel journal – USA 2007
#13 – upstate NY.

heading upstate NY.

Borrowed my host's VW and headed upstate on my own. No schedule – I just wanted to look around and at the same time acquire some practice in handling of american roads and traffic and interpreting roadsigns.

I forgot my reading-glasses in Pearl River, so I was actually a bit handicapped since I couldn't read the maps properly and at times had no real idea where I was. Wasted some time here and there because of this, but it wasn't a big problem since my sense of direction worked well in this part of the world too and the main roads had plenty of signs.

something growing.

Taylor's Greenhouses in a small town called Ohioville, had this old John Deere tractor up front. We have a John Deere ourselves, and it's always nice to see an older model.

Taylor's Greenhouses were one of the smaller ones, but they definitely had something to sell.

I know someone back home in Norway who would like to have some (a lot) of these plants. Pity I couldn't take any with me.

gray day in upper NYS.

Ran into a real shower on the interstate. I'm used to rain, but for a few minutes it was so bad that I could hardly make out the car in front of me, and that was a bit on the heavy side even for me when the speed were around 80 miles/hour. The traffic did slow down significantly during the worst part, and after about 15 minutes the rain had all but stopped and sight were back to normal.

going up the highway.

The interstate highways were easy enough to follow – even for someone used to slightly narrower roads.
(Actually, the difference between the interstates I followed and the average Norwegian multi-lane roads in more heavy populated areas, tends to favor Norwegian roads. Speed-limits are pretty much the same.)

Never mind the tourist-attractions along these interstates though, as they are worthless.

pit stop east of the Catskill Mountains.

Some Norwegians (and maybe some others) like shiny two-wheelers, so I took a picture.

June 2nd.