Brookville, PA: TA

This is actually the exit where you would get off of I-80 to head south and say hello to Phil. You know Phil don't you? Short in stature, a little pudgy, and has a lot of hair. He ends up on television yearly as well. Haven't figured it out yet? Well it is Punxsutawney Phil of course, the groundhog that predicts the end of winter. I wonder if he will see his shadow this year.

It turns out that my almost two hour delay didn't really lose me as much time as I though it would. Apparently the road got shut down about ten miles short of this exit due to an accident earlier tonight. So I would have ended up hung up and losing time either way. This is about an hour and a half of driving away from where I originally planned to stop at, so I will have close to five hours of driving tomorrow morning rather than three.

One thing that was a bit amusing along the way was a particular CB advertisement. It was for a strip club off of I-80 at exit 42, the Interstate Body Shop. To entice the truckers they announced free showers, free cocktails, a laundry room, plenty of parking, and of course live nude girls, like there were some clubs with dead nude ones. The girl on the radio then asked people who were interested to head to another channel, to keep the main channel, 19, clear of the ads. there they went on to say that they had a new dancer, never done it before tonight on stage, with such enticing descriptions of long blond hair down to her butt and her measurements, which meant nothing to me. All I could think was TANSTAAFL. The cover must be ridiculous to pay for all the freebies, because There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.