The guessing game ended as soon as we got off the highway.
Thankfully, when we got off the highway, about 22 miles from Zihuatanejo, we were surrounded by nothing but tropical forest.
We got off the highway in Sonobe, which seemed both rural and light-industrial in a way that reminded me of Nyack.
A few exits later, Mr. Hawkinson got off the highway and immediately found himself on an elbow-shaped back street in the north end of Newark.
Once we got off the highway and into the dark streets, though, we found that none of our maps helped us find Pushkin Street, the main drag where all the Hasidic pilgrims supposedly assembled.
A New Jersey driver who had previously seen the Red Hook housing projects only while passing by on an elevated span of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway got off the highway the other day, parked, walked into the projects, and met up with Shaina Harrison, a young woman whose job is helping to prevent gun violence among kids in New York City.
By Ian Frazier Shaina Harrison A New Jersey driver who had previously seen the Red Hook housing projects only while passing by on an elevated span of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway got off the highway the other day, parked, walked into the projects, and met up with Shaina Harrison, a young woman whose job is helping to prevent gun violence among kids in New York City.
Drivers tired of waiting get off the highway and try to short-cut through local streets, getting back on the highway's bridge approach at the last minute, at 92nd Street.
Whoever said that travel begins when you get off the highway is right.
You get off the highway and almost immediately there is a parking lot, because most cars are not allowed to drive in.
