Saturday, January 2, 2016

And, They're Off! Seattle-New Jersey-North Carolina

  Fla Day 1


Golden Mesa somewhere between Seattle and Houston  

After spending a lovely Christmas in Seattle and sipping a New Years Champers in New Jersey with our boys, we struck off south for Florida

I95 is the interstate of choice here,.  Soon we crossed the Delaware, then the Chesapeake, where we stopped for coffee.  A “small” coffee here is a tubful.   Sloshing slightly, we pressed on.  Next up was the Baltimore Harbour tunnel, then the Washington DC Beltway, to skirt the worst bits of traffic in the Capitol.

Then Virginia and the cradle of the Civil War; names like Potomac, Manassas, Fredericksberg, The Wilderness, Richmond, Petersberg and on into North Carolina and Raleigh for the night.


A good day’s driving, in spite of the 15-mile-long stop-and-go traffic jam before Richmond.  Happily, Reg discovered the Express Lanes which are only available to holders of the EZPass (ie: they’re toll roads without tollbooths, but with lots of cameras so they can mail you fines if you’re not equipped.)  Since we are so equipped, we swooped past the first few miles of the jam, but alas, the Express Lanes ended before the jam did.  Interminability notwithstanding, we really only lost 15 minutes to the Slow Creep.

2 comments:

  1. My one enduring memory of the Washington beltway and area was the horrendous traffic..... absolutely ridiculous! And that was 10 years ago - I guess it hasn't improved at all

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  2. My one enduring memory of the Washington beltway and area was the horrendous traffic..... absolutely ridiculous! And that was 10 years ago - I guess it hasn't improved at all

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