Wellsboro, PA

The Ohio Turnpike is a stretch of toll road which cups the south-
western shore of Lake Erie.  Don't drive it, just don't, especially in
the rain.  For the entirety of the trip thus far, trucks were limited
to a speed 10mph below that of cars.  Not so on the Ohio Turnpike.
The supposed speed limit was 75mph for cars and big rigs alike.
With a wiper defying assault of water from above and below, a
culture of furious inches between bumpers, trucks howling past one 
another in every lane, and no shoulder whatsoever, those couple 
hours stretched on and on, brittle and clenched.

But all things pass, even the Ohio Turnpike.  We dropped into the
day lilies and cemeteries of rural Pennsylvania, Route 6 like the soft
syllables of a consoling grandmother.

The above photo is from Wellsboro, PA, an otherwise charming 
small town along Route 6.  Gas-lit lampposts, a train car diner, 
ancient elms, ornately masoned storefronts, breezy Victorian porches.