Made it back to MA. I learned one thing. A Ford SuperDuty is *not* the
vehicle to travel the Cross Bronx Expressway in heavy traffic.
Everyone's doing about 80 and the friggin' truck is sprung so heavy that
when I hit one of the notorious bumps in the road it wanted to bounce
into the next lane. Should have put about 2,000 lbs of weight in the
bed.

Coming up the New Jersey Turnpike I saw a gazillion blue flashing lights
in the fast lane ahead. I gained on them and realized there was about a
2 miles of cop cars traveling towards New York. As I drove along more
and more cop cars joined in the progression. They included NJ State
Troopers, Delaware and Maryland State Troopers, along with a whole bunch
of small town cop cars.

They all exited as we approached NYC. On the other side of the GWB
I saw more cop cars heading south, some escorting Peter Pan buses full
of (what I assume to be) more cops.

I then realized that the funeral for one of the NYC cops that was killed
was going on today. There must have been thousands of cops from all
over the northeast attending.