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.