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Generally speaking, I like Pennsylvania. When I'm driving cross country, I pass through hundreds of miles of its woods. Lot of woods in Pennsylvania. Has anybody ever counted the trees?

Lot of deer too. During October and November, you can count hundreds of dead deer carcasses along the highways of Pennsylvania.

My favorite town in Pennsylvania is Scranton. I just like the way it sounds. Scranton. Cool name for a town. Then you got that Wilkes-Barre right next to it with all the strip malls. Don't know how to pronounce Wilkes-Barre but Scranton rolls right off the tongue. Perfect place for Dunder Mifflin, that fictitious office supply company of "The Office" fame. There are a lot of people in Pennsylvania that resemble Dwight Schrute.

Further on down I-81, you have Hershey. The chocolate city, now all tourist trappy with the amusement parks and the overpriced family restaurants.

Speaking of I-81, that is where they send prospective truck driving prospects to practice for their tractor trailer (CDL) license. True story. Don't mess with the trucks on I-81.

But there is no place more PA than the old coal-mining town of Frackville. Gritty Frackville. Right out of a Springsteen song. Don't forget to stop in at the Dutch Kitchen when you are there.

I live at Tennessee Exit 59 on I 81.

I have traveled extensively in Pennsylvania even on I 81. I took the opportunity to take a Pennsylvania is ok by me.

In an article a few years back, Forbes had a graphic indicating routes carring the greatest volume of freight. The article was mostly about water and rail traffic but the graphic included interstates.

I 81 caarries the greatest freight volume of all interstaates.