"She came by way of Archer, Bridgeport, Nanuet, worked off 95 in jeans and a denim jacket, carrying a plastic bag and shower shoes, a phone number, waiting beneath an underpass, the potato chips long gone, lightheaded."
This is the first sentence of the novel. What does "worked off 95" mean?
http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/bookworm/atticus-lish-preparation-for-the-next-life/excerpt-from-preparation-for-the-next-life - that is a larger piece of the first chapter if some more context is needed.