Fall Foliage and The Office

Updated to include my new favorite restroom sign:



I'm not feeling very much like writing these days, but I've got a few photos I want to share and a little bit of text to go with them.  I finally started to see some fall colors driving from Pittsburgh to Wilkes-Barre. It was raining and sometimes foggy and there were a lot of trucks on the road throwing up spray from the rain, so I didn't get to see as much as I'd like. But what I could see made me happy. When I got to Wilkes-Barre, I took this photo near the Susquehanna River. 


There was something that looked like a flood wall along the river, but I couldn't figure out where the hardware was to close the openings. Must be behind the metal doors you can see in this photo.


I don't have a recollection of it, but apparently there was a really bad flood here in 1972 thanks to Hurricane Agnes, and again in 1996 thanks to Tropical Storm Lee. 

I'm a fan of The Office, so I pretty much couldn't go through the Scranton area without hunting up some locations from that show including the "Scranton Welcomes You" sign from the intro and the Steamtown Mall from the episode where Michael takes the female staff on a shopping trip. An odd instruction provided by my navigator that was intended to send me around some road construction led me to a road sign for Lake Wallenpaupack that I had time to photograph before deciding I preferred to take my chances on the main road after all. 



The Scranton sign is staged so that you can take a photograph that makes it appear to be outside by the side of the road, but it's actually in the mall across from the Verizon store. 

At one point I saw a sign for an exit going to Jersey Shore. I was nowhere near New Jersey so it seemed really odd to me. It turns out to be a small town in Pennsylvania that was given that nickname because a prominent resident was from New Jersey and the town was next to a river. The nickname became so prevalent that it eventually became the town's official name.

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