The drive from northern NJ to just outside Washington was one of the two most dreaded -the other being the six month journey through Texas. The I-95 corridor is the te of driving I wanted to get away from when I left NYC some 30 years ago. Traffic patterns have only gotten worse. A couple of random thoughts on this:
-Everything you have heard about Jersey drivers is true, in spades. They don't let you make left turns off major roads, instead making do a right handed circle to go across the road. Jersey drivers express their dissatisfaction in this policy by driving like crazed, madmen, with no regard for your life or your own
-Maryland, you need to kick it up a notch. We stopped at a rest stop there and found one positive -beautiful setting. On the negative side of the ledger was the fact that the wifi did not work, they had no handicapped stalls in the main bathroom, you had to go outside to a separate and ring a buzzer to get a non-existent worker, and the stalls had only half doors, giving you no privacy from anyone over 4 feet tall. Bad job Maryland
-Remember everything I said about Jersey drivers? That goes double for Washington Beltway drivers. In moderate traffic, riding in the extreme right lane, going 10 mph over the speed limit and within sight of a radar trap, I had a driver go into the exit lane, pass me and swerve back into the right lane.
We drove through the bucolic suburbs of Manassas, through rolling farmland and Civil War battle sights, and arrived at our friend Peggy' s house with light to spare and prepared for a great night out...
Part 2 coming later...
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MASS Exodus: From Here to Serenity / "The Car, Cat and Clothes Tour"
Good friends, good food, good times!
The dream of Las Cruces, New Mexico is becoming a reality !
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