Traveling to Elizabeth New Jersey

I got up early the next day. Which was Sunday to drive to Elizabeth, New Jersey. On my way I wanted to stop at Emerson UNITARIAN  universalist church. So I started driving North on the way. I crossed a very skinny bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  I stopped and took a picture of the bridge. It was so skinny that I scraped the right hand mirror on the car as I tried to cross.
I visited the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton New Jersey.
During Coffee Hour I was advised to take a Grey Line tour of New York wich I planned to do.
After I left coffee hour, I drove on to Elizabeth New Jersey. I looked for places to charge the car. The first place  was at the airport which is apparently in a parking garage.  I didn't realize that the parking garage was free, so I didn't park there.  Then I drove over to a high school, where I found that the charging station was behind a fence. Next I drove over to another charging station which I found was in a parking garage of a apartment complex for which you need to be a member or owner to get access.
I parked in the nearby shopping center.  I had lunch at a Burger place.
Then I noticed that there was a charging station across the street. At Keane University. I drove over, parked the car at the University. It was 2 miles from the Motel 6. Where I had reserved a room. So decided to skate to the motel.  While skating, I did OK. I fell but once. A mile before I got to the motel, the strap on my left skate  broke across the street from a supermarket.  I went into the supermarket and found some shoelaces. Which I used to tie my foot to The skate. I proceeded to walK  under the raiload underpass  where there was no sidewalk and after I crossed  to the other side of the road underpass, I put the skates back on and I skated the rest of the way to the motel.  I got my room key and I investigate the room thinking. Maybe I could charge the car there.
Then I skated back to the car.
 I drove back to Motel 6, stopping first at the supermarket for dinner. When I checked out the room, I found that it had no grounded plugs.

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