Ehhhh... I grew up half the time in Pittsburgh and half in a little slightly-past-nowhere dorp in the middle of the Finger Lakes; home of the Marching Scotsmen. They played bagpipes and steel drum... you haven't heard anything until you've heard Carribbean/Calypso Bagpipe. ![Shocked :o](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xshocked.gif.pagespeed.ic.CrwtrNUjLO.png)
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And afterwards, it's an hour at least before you can hear anything again... ![Banging Head |O](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/bangheadonwall.gif.pagespeed.ce.8iLbFYV4Bc.gif)
Once, in ´00, I drove Newark-DC Metro-Pittsburgh-Newark to first visit colleagues at Network Solutions and then the IETF 48. Pennsylvania, a state I've driven through in various amounts during 4 of my US visits ('93, '97, '00 and briefly in '01) sometimes looks very middle-european (I'm thinking Ardennes, with a sprinkling of Saone valley) while at the same time being very much a part of the US; Bagpipes or not.
All those trips were before GPS was a commodity, so one was constantly trying to verify correct navigation by squinting at the map that the PennDOT kindly donated at rest stops. I explicitly stayed off the interstates after DC, and went by US 50, 522, 40, and PA 51, and then US 30 and US 22 through Harrisburg (Yes, Kraftwerk on repeat in the CD player during that part!). In the Sunday morning as I drove into NY Metro area, I decided that I wanted to see the sea, which of course failed, but I got to drive across a very sleepy Manhattan and on to Brooklyn and all the way out to Floyd Bennet Field.
Those were the times when one had to go places to see places. Nowadays, it's more of a verfication that Google Street View coverage is not out of date
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