Road Trip, Part XXIII

Friday, June 17: Left around 4.30 in the afternoon to visit AA in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, less than a hundred miles away. The drive was fairly uneventful, quite a change from the spectacular views I had grown accustomed to. I reached AA’s place in the evening and we went to watch the final Star Wars movie which had released just the previous day. I quite enjoyed the movie – easily the best of the three new prequels. We then spent an hour or so at a nearby bar called Bethlehem Steelworks, named in recognition of the primary industry of Bethlehem. Most of the steel plants have gone, and the town is a shell of its former self but like many other places in the coal-rich steel-producing state of Pennsylvania, it still retains a distinctly blue-collar flavour.