NYC Day 1 - The Drive

It wasn't my first time driving on a highway, but it was definitely my first time driving on a highway at 5:30am in the morning only 80% awake and in the crazy wind and rain conditions. The streetlights reflected off every puddle, making it extremely difficult to actually see the lane markings. That made me a bit nervous for the first forty-five minutes or so, but I kind of got used to looking for it. The rain never really let up for the entire day. Somewhere around Burlington, there was this one spot where a car was merging into my lane from the right, just in front of me. It went through a massive puddle and I literally saw this blade of water spew out from its wheels and come flying at my windshield. It looked like some slow-motion ninja move in a movie; I screamed in terror and scared my parents half to death. My windshield wipers proceeded to do their job and take care of the issue, and everything was okay again. =3

Driving on the highway in the dark is weird. All the random office buildings and warehouses that seem to just squat beside the roadway are dimly lit, presumably to save power or something, and they just freak me out a little. They remind me of some zombie nightmare, as though some kind of creature would come slinking around a corner or oozing out of a window. To make my drive even more stressful, there was classical music playing in the car (my dad's choice, of course), which was no Little Night Music but rather some epic symphony that sounded like the soundtrack to a scene where dragons descend menacingly upon a battered hero on his way to retrieve a magical amulet. Cool, eh? So I ended up listening to music from my phone using earphones...