An Interstate Runs Through It

I just recently drove down from NY to Orlando, FL for my next med school rotation (more on that later). I-95 is long. Really long. No, really, it’s really, really long. Just from NY to Florida I took about 18 hours.

Anyways, here are some tidbits I learned along the way:

1) I have to pee every two hours. If I don’t, bad things may start happening. This is even while I’m fasting and can’t drink all day. Every two hours. Or bad.
2) Virgina is a long state to drive through, and it’s all looks the same. BORING!
3) JC rules the airwaves. There is a plethora of Christian rock radio stations the minute you hit Virginia. I didn’t even know there was such a demand for it. That and classic rock. People really love their classic rock and their savior. Favorite song so far, that I have heard numerous times, is Dirty White Boy.
4) The town of Yemassee, SC has water that tastes and smells like Sulfur. I thought maybe it was just the hotel I was staying at, but no, even at Denny’s it smelled and tasted odd. Travel down I-95 a little further, and the air smells like sulfur too. Yummy!
5) They still believe in smoking down South. In the two places I stopped to eat, they had smoking sections in the restaurants. One place was smart enough to put their non-smoking section in between 2 smoking sections, which were separated by a big white lattice screen, so really, they were just open onto each other. I don’t know why they even bothered to have separate sections. I think I’ve been too spoiled with the whole no smoking thing in restaurants and bars up North. I hate smoke. HATE IT!!!!
6) I can not hit high notes. I should stop trying to sing like Kelly Clarkson.
7) I made a friend ( pic of bug on car). It was quite fond of my car and refused to leave.
8) People in the south love their pig. When ordering breakfast at Denny’s, I tell my waitress no bacon or sausage with my eggs. She raises her eyebrows, looks at me for a few good seconds as if she doesn’t understand me, so I repeat no bacon or sausage or any kind of meat, just the eggs and pancakes. She looks at me again and says, “No bacon or sausage? That’s the strangest order I’ve ever gotten.”
9) Bugs like fast moving cars. They’re splattered all over the grill of my car. The further south I got, the bigger and splattier they got. You could actually hear the thuds as they hit the windshield. (insert pic).
10) It’s still summer down South. When I left New York, it started cooling of, around 65. The second I hit Florida, 90’s and humidity. Nice.