Paul made dinner, it was very good.
Southwestern Chicken wings, chicken breasts with BBQ sauce, bacon, mixed cheese, some shells and cheese, and southwest mixed veggies. Dang good!
And, Sciroccojim explains his rear strut situation.
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New Jersey officially has the record for cheapest fuel of the trip!!
I’m staying tonight with Paul and Lee (sciroccos4life and sciroccos4lifewife) in NJ.
Met up with INTERNETRACECAR from the SomethingAwful forums at the state capitol of Connecticut.
Rhode Island is the last of the 48 states that I have never visited before, and the third-to-last capitol of this trip. There was a marathon going on downtown in Providence, so I had to get a little creative, and I think it turned out much better than normal!
And as suddenly as I went into Rhode Island, I was out! ‘m headed for Hartford, CT now.
an HDR image is the combination of two images taken at different exposure levels. In this particular case, the people in the scene moved, leaving some rather strange effects. This produces an image that shows the colors of both input images.
High Dynamic Range Image
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I met up with Eli (sharkytm on SomethingAwful and VWVortex), and we explored the cape here.
Then we went and ate at PI Pizza. New England style Pizza, it was quite good!
Jonny filled me up with some gas, and I left Maine.
I drove down I-95, so I was in New Hampshire for like 15 minutes! 
Then Boston. This was the one I was worried about, and I was right to – Saturday in a city designed YEARS before cars? Yeah. But I got a picture that’s actually not bad at all!!
I met up with Jon (JonnyPhenomenon on VWVortex) to take photos of the Maine State Capitol.
Now we’re eating breakfast in Lewiston, ME.
Got here to John’s place (crazyaboutrocs on VWVortex) in Bucksport, ME. He’s getting the Lobster ready!
This morning, I left New York for Vermont. The trees are just starting to change! Mtl-Marc met me at the capitol and signed my hood. Thanks, Marc!!
On to New Hampshire, and Maine!
New York State Capitol
Visited Albany, New York today. Took photos of the downtown area. Then I drove to Amsterdam, NY – and Julie took me to the Windmill Diner for dinner.
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This morning, I bid Raul goodbye. Raul is the executive chef at a restaurant called Swanky Bubbles, which has a location in Center City Philadelphia, and also a location in Cherry Hill, NJ. Raul’s car was broken when I left, it is still broken, hence the “fix me”
I drove through NJ, and stopped by sciroccojim’s place to drop off a rear seat I had carried from echassin in Chicago to here. Jim bought me lunch at the Cafe California.
Now I’m in NY, heading for Albany.
It just happened that my grandpa was going up to New York to see the Queen Elizabeth 2 leave New York. This is the second-to-last time that it will be here before it retires to Dubai, the last time is in October, so the light will be gone on departure, so the best photos will be today.
We got into a 2000 Subaru Forrester, and I drove us up the NJturnpike up to Staten Island, New York. We took the ferry across, and then took the subway up Manhattan. We went to the pier area, and took a small ferry across to Weehauken, NJ to take pictures from a higher vantage point.
The QE2 was parked next to the Crystal Symphony at the pier, but the Symphony was not scheduled to depart until later tonight. We took photos with my camera, and my grandpa’s Nikon D40x.
Then we got back on the ferry, and took the subway down to Little Italy. There was a street festival. it was called the Feast of San Gennaro, and it happens every year. We ate dinner at Benito II – a great true Italian restaurant that is a tradition for us in New York visits.
