If there is scenery, it's behind all the tall signs advertising gas prices. It's only 6. You tell the kids you'll drive one more hour to Pittsburgh and get a place with a pool there. Only you arrive and find there's a river regatta on - one of the biggest events of the year. You won't find a room in a 100-mile radius, one chain tells you.
More calls bear that out.
You resume driving, but the mood has changed. You and your spouse snipe at each other. The kids are antsy. He's heard it before and ignores you. You stop again.