To Boston

View from our hotel room - Customs House in Boston

We drove to Boston today, via what we thought was the Garden Parkway, but what was actually route 284 (didn't turn off soon enough for Garden Parkway, whoops), and also via route 95 (missed turn off to route 15, whoops), and a big traffic jam on route 15 once we finally got off 95, because it had big traffic jams too, and then into Boston in time for peak Thursday evening traffic (standstill, literally). The valet at the hotel (no onsite parking! we missed that one when booking) commented "Welcome to Bawston" when I mentioned the traffic in Boston. I honestly think it was worse than Sydney.
But joy of joys, the Tappan Zee Bridge (which we did get to, instead of going through sort of north New York on the George Washington Bridge, which is what Apple maps strongly believes you should take (very hard to convince it otherwise, which is why we're grateful for the Road Map of America book left here by some thoughtful parents, all marked up)) not only was a beautiful bridge, they're building another bridge beside it! So there are cranes, and barges, and all sorts of cool stuff, in the middle of a large river (the Hudson) that you get to drive past.

A huge crane lifting a bit of deck into place!

Things which I think will be part of the new bridge with sort of boxes of scaffolding around the tops, plus more cranes!! Plus the existing bridge!!