To NORTHEAST!
May 14-16 2023
PART 2
This is during our tour of Scranton, Pa., and that wild iconoclast Joe Biden. We rejoin I-81 from River Street.
I-81 goes under Moosic Street (PA 307). I stayed at a motel in Moosic, Pa., during my 1991 trip. The room stank of a dirty locker room, and I got shocked by the bathroom light switch. Years later, the town tried to close the inn if it didn't mend its ways. The warning sign at left is for the sharp curve to the President Biden Expressway.
Drinker Street - old US 611 - in Dunmore. The 2020s led lots of folks to become the name of this road.
Northwest on Drinker.
We're gonna rock down to Electric Street! This is Electric at Jefferson.
We reenter Scranton on Electric.
Capouse at Richmont.
Capouse at Grandview.
Washington at Park. The sign blades are too faded to see the street names.
Washington at Fisk.
This house on Washington Avenue is where Biden lived until he was 10.
Washington Avenue approaches its end.
I have no idea where this is. Maybe the house on the left edge is the White House, so maybe that's where Biden was. Or maybe it's the house in the Sesame Street skits where the baker fell down the steps.
Cue the observation about how someone "ruined the stop sign." Ruin is a funny word, but it's even funnier when you're talking about a stop sign.
Back through Dunmore on Electric.
On I-84/380, we've just concluded a stretch that overlays the old US 611. US 611 was abolished in 1972.
I-84/380 goes over Roaring Brook and a rail line.
I-84 near Greentown.
I-84 crosses the Delaware River into New York state. I got a video here in 2014 when a months-long construction project reduced this side of I-84 to one lane. We barely missed New Jersey on this trip: As we were over the river, we were only 300 feet from New Jersey. In fact, the BGS has a NJ 23 shield.
The official New York welcome!
I-84 near Slate Hill.
US 6/NY 17M in New Hampton.
The road is actually a shortcut between the freeways.