I-95 in Maine on a 74 degree Friday evening. The route
through Portland was deserted.

So supposedly Maine is not renting rooms to out of state visitors until June 1st. Oops, its May 28th, but we think we have a reservation. We hope so.
We will see. Not much definitive information is available anywhere. Just a lot of executive orders.

We went through the New Jersey turnpike service plaza where we have been on two other trips and had to hunt for a parking space and wait in long lines for starbucks and burger king. Today, literally 7 cars in the parking lot, the only store open was burger king with limited menu, Starbucks and all other stores were closed. The bathrooms looked like a scene from a zombie movie, every other toilet is taped off, paper towels all over the floor, really creepy. Most people had masks on, what there were of them.

New Hamster, must be run by hamsters, the bathrooms building at the rest stop is closed, but they have overflowing port-a-potties in the parking lot. The strangeness continues.

I-495 during rush hour on a Friday night was deserted. I-95 in Maine has never been this empty in our many trips.
So we traveled through 9 states today, with really almost as many states of mind. From "wear mask or don't come in" to ho-hum
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey , new York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, new Hampshire and Maine

Offical highway signs in Maine -
"Do your part, stay apaht, stay fah apaht"
Another official Maine highway sign
"Stay alive, Stay home"
Or
Stay home, Stay alive
Hard to tell the correct order as the sign keeps cycling

We did get into the motel, had to sign some affidavit

So tomorrow we head for the Canadian, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia borders.🤞

I guess govenors and premiers are having a field day all issuing various executive orders. Many seem to be very vague and often ambiguous, some full, of loop holes and some very draconian. It really does seems to be a very difficult task, and i expect probably many lawsuits and challenges will arise. I suppose some are really trying hard to do the right thing for the greatest numbers of people, but it seems very complex.