LOCAL SCENE
Off Peak travel time | You can tell 'cuz there's no back-up of traffic at this point |

Middletown's Arrigoni Bridge, thanks to a double set of traffic lights [
the first light is directly after the bridge] is usually the overhead of great traffic snarls when rush hour approaches, or on weekend beach travel days, or... well, most any occasion really | I don't mind | I always have something to read in the pick-up though on this day I didn't need it |
Those things reflected in the window include a small
Brunton compass and
Tom Brown's book,
Tracker |

Although you can't see it, there's a great Italian restaurant just off the highway to the right of this point | Hard as all get out to reach, but still a good eatery | To the left, a little down the road, is the
Come On Over sign that got it's 15 minutes of fame in the
Billy Joel video River of Dreams |
COMMENT: Bruce stares over at the sign [admittedly blurry white patch mid-picture] while waiting for the trafic light | For a crisper version of the bridge picture, click here