The Road to Philadelphia – the BMW 535d’s Final Journey and Review – The Diesel Driver – The Joy of Diesel Driving

Because diesel fuel is much less costly in New Jersey than in New York, a stop at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area, named for the New Jerseyan who is mostly remembered for his poem “Trees” but also a prolific poet and journalist, was in store.

Soon we were at Exit 4, close to our first destination, Weber’s Drive-In, a 1950’s style drive-in restaurant, in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey. We exited the turnpike and made our way through stop-and-go traffic (thank you, BMW Active Cruise!) to the restaurant.

Our colleague Paul Riegler wrote a full review of the establishment in our sister publication Frequent Business Traveler but this has been on my list as well as Paul’s as a place not to miss. Here meals are served on trays that are clipped onto lowered car windows and recommended are the burger and cheese fries and the restaurant’s own root beer (made there), as well as the brown cow (root beer float).

Continuing onto Philadelphia, we headed towards the Ben Franklin Bridge which, when it opened in 1926, held the record of the longest single span of any suspension bridge in the world.

Heading onto the Vine Street Expressway and then the Schuykill, we ended up on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, just in time for the Pi Lambda Phi 37th Annual Human Barbecue (don’t worry, humans only attend; they are not consumed). The fraternity’s annual bash featured over a dozen local bands and of course charcoal broiled hot dogs and steaks.

Despite the copious amounts of food, we still ended up at Pat’s King of Steaks, the place where cheesesteaks are said to have been invented, in the wee hours of the night.

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