The Road Trip (Day One)

If you count New Jersey, then this was the second state that we drove through. One word to describe Pennsylvania? Long. Another, more made up word? Tunnelly. We started west on interstate 78 which led us to 81 south. We went around Harrisburg and continued west on the lovely PA Turnpike. Wikipedia says the following: "When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940, it was the first long-distance rural highway in the United States and was popularly known as the "tunnel highway" because of the seven mountain tunnels along its route."

Here are just a few of the tunnels that we encountered and eventually spelunked (surprisingly, there is not a past tense version of spelunk so I just made up 2 words for this one post). Also, notice how varied the architecture is on the tunnel entrances: