It begins in the northern tip of main and travels southward reaching Massachusetts linking drivers to Boston. From there it travels alongside New York, New York. While one is in this area they may as well hit Philadelphia, the original U.S. capital, and Atlantic City, New Jersey…East’s Vegas! Keep going south and you’ll hit Washington, D.C. As the current capital, it serves as the home of the President of the United States, perhaps making it the most important city in the world. This means you’ll likely hit Virginia and Maryland if you stop in our nation’s capital, and from there you see the Carolinas. Both of ‘em, North and South. It is also on this highway that you will pass the largest military base in the U.S. It swallows you on both sides!
Then you’ll cross into Georgia. Keep driving and you will be near Savannah, Ga. Go into town and you will see the street used for the bench scenes of Forrest Gump, the greatest American film of all time.
Believe it or not, there is one more state. Florida. It starts with Jacksonville, then Orlando, and finally…Miami. However, if you’re absolutely sick of driving southbound, you shall see the I-10 in the panhandle. Or if you want you can take I-75 and see Tampa on the way up to the I-10. Just be sure to get there by 10. :) Now you’ll see Tallahassee, the capital of the southernmost state in the continental U.S. You never know, your ancestors could have been settlers that hit land there.
All of a sudden you’re back in Dixie. There’s Alabama. The biggest city you’ll hit is Mobile. Unless you decide you wanna see Nashville, then hop on I-65. You’ll see Montgomery and Birtmingham on the way up. But if you stay on 10 you’ll go through Mississippi perhaps through Favre-town in Kiln, MS on your way to New Orleans…the site of Favre’s Super Bowl championship. Then there’s Texas. Houston will have a problem when you arrive! Let the good times roll and you’re gonna go through New Mexico for a beautiful desert landscape on your way to Arizona. Perhaps you’ll stop to see the biggest god-made hole in the world. Or maybe the second biggest.
Then you’ll hit the most populated and culturally acknowledged land in the world. California. Hollywood, LA, Beverly Hills, San Francisco (I mean San Diego). All these wonderful locations can be reached by the I-5. This takes you from San Diego to Los Angeles to Frisco to Portland, Oregon and then up to Seattle. Grungetown.
Thus I stand by my statement that I-95 is the most relevant American road on our soil and in our time. There are so many U.S. capitals to hit, including the US itself. You’ll hit most of the geographic areas of our sea to shining sea territory established by a man on a boat in 1942, when he had to do it because this new world was new! Oh, was it 1492. Whoops.
