6th
Entry for July 2
The thrill of leaving New York City is immediate and corroborated by the appearance of cattails ten minutes after exiting the Holland Tunnel. At 2 PM we stop to eat lunch at a Cracker Barrel. The meal includes fried okra and the service is excellent (signs of excellent service: the waiter calls you “folks”; includes a straw with water glass).
At lunch I learn a few things:
a) Fireworks are legal in Pennsylvania
b) Parts of New Jersey are below the Mason-Dixon Line
c) Another name for this is the “Muffin-Biscuit Line”— and I am on the wrong side of it
Then we get back in the car. It is sweltering. We pass a truck with a Philip K. Dickian logo: “Vision Logistics Group, Inc.” For an hour everyone is quiet, digesting. I throw loose strands of hair out the window.
