The Non-Beauty of Route 1 

Had I not had a hard deadline to meet President Obama, I would have glady added an extra few days and taken more indirect, scenic byroads through New Jersey. But I didn't want to play with my schedule so I took the most direct route there, Route 1. Strip malls and jersey barriers and traffic, Route 1 isn't pretty road for rambling. At one point I somehow found myself stranded on this median between lanes.