Pulling over for the night

Made it to the Sideling Hill service area on the PA turnpike, am pulling over for the evening. Not quite as far as I intended to get tonight but I'm in no hurry to get to Illinois.

Approaching Harrisburg, PA on I-81, I decided to stay on 81 to the Carlisle interchange (where you get off 81 and drive about a mile to I76). For the past few trips I've detoured around Harrisburg using I283 or I383, whatever's east of the city. It adds a few miles but skips all the construction and city traffic.

Tonight I thought: Hey, traffic should be light.. Duh.

Got off I81 in Carlisle only to be met with a complete closure of US11 right at the I76/turnpike exit. The turnpike itself was open, I just couldn't get there. There was the thick smell of burning wood in the air but no obvious fire...whatever had happened had occurred awhile ago. I asked one of the emergency guys minding the street what was up and he said there had been an incident (? accident?) at the turnpike-US11 connection and that it'd be closed for awhile.

So...using the trusty GPS I backtraced up US11 to US15 to I76. Drove by the Carlisle interchange and couldn't see anything other than many, many trucks queued up trying to exit.

Back in DG

Arrived in Downers Grove, IL around 7:15 tonight. Checked out the house and let Frisket frolic in the yard a bit before heading to Chicago. I'm staying at the W Lakeshore for the week...figured it would be best if I didn't spend the week getting depressed in the house again.