I-95

[Jara sang]

Between Richmond and Washington D.C. Ohhh, what a joy.:sarcasm: There is nothing I love more than driving 80 m.p.h. with somebody five feet in front of me and five feet behind me, boxed in and unable to get into a clear lane. For fifty miles. It's kinda like an 80 m.p.h. automotive chunk of cholesterol careening down the artery of our extremely unhealthy and consumer driven society. Since we are on the bodily analogies, I-95 is an artery, what does that make D.C.? Let's just say it's probably somewhere in the lower gastro-intestinal tract.:7

[yvr girl]

1. My first introduction to that stretch of pavement was during rush hour

What a joy.

[Jara sang]

10. What brought you to Virginia?

:hi:

[yvr girl]

11. I was in DC for a trade show

Then I drove down to Savannah to visit our office there.

[Jara sang]

14. Savannah

I have always wanted to go to Savannah.

[yvr girl]

16. The first time I hated it

I had been in Charleston on vacation with a friend. We had planned on going to Savannah for part of it. (I use 'planned' in a really general sense.) We drove there, and took a hit or miss approach with regards to exits and hotels. We found ourselves in a scary neighbourhood, and were afraid to stop the car.

We later found the heart of the city, but were underwhelmed. It was decided that we were just going to go back to Charleston.

A few years later, I spent a fair bit of time there for work. I saw better parts through the eyes of locals. (But I still prefer Charleston.)

[MrScorpio]

2. I put on music and go with the flow

At least you were going 80

[Jara sang]

5. No doubt,

It is usually completely stopped somewhere around Fredricksburg.

[MrScorpio]

8. I usually see problems just when the HOV-3 lane starts

And life gets better after Springfield

[Rick Myers]

3. Just bump draft the guy and cut under him going into a turn!

Sorry, watching NASCAR right now!!! :hi:

[sundog]

4. haha

your sig makes me laugh...

I went to christian school for my first 4 years... some girl wrote K.I.S.S. on the blackboard during recess and goul HAULED out of the clasroom by her ear & sent to the office (no one was ever quite sure if the paddle had been employed or not, but the poor girl came back with red eyes)...

and at that young age, I said to myself, "this shit is fucked up" :P

[hfojvt]

6. probably was a message to the teacher

Keep It Simple, Stupid

[sundog]

9. the girl wrote out the whole thing

except it was 'kings in satan's service'

the teacher went absolutely mad - children often cried in that school

ack! those people were horrid brainwashing fucks

ugh - some of the shit at that place :puke:

i am thankful i got away :)

[Jara sang]

7. Rock & Roll & Satanic lyrics

Were all the rage back in the early eighties, what with Ronnie Raygun and all.

[hfojvt]

12. I thought the same thing in Michigan

but I was not quite that boxed in.
If you gradually slowed to 75, wouldn't you get a larger gap in front of you?
You know what I really hate. I am on a nearly empty interstate. Someone passes me going 5 mph faster than me, pulls back into the right lane less than half a car length ahead of me. Sometimes I pull into the left lane just for to show them they can drive there.
Have you ever gone down an interstate in the middle of the night and it is empty, and you straddle the center line just to say "I own the road"?
That's my kind of driving.

[fortyfeetunder]

13. Yeah, I detest it

especially when I have to drive my dad's Cadillac boat-mobile on that stretch.

It's soured my desire for jetting between Seattle and Portland, a much nicer trip...

[demnan]

15. Ah shucks

Some of us do this every day (I live 30 miles south of D.C. and work just across the river from D.C. That is a 30 mile hike, 60 miles a work day. The benefit? I couldn't buy a condo worth having on my salary further in, and could barely afford one at any rate.

How do I not become a raving banchee every day? I ride in a van pool through the HOV lanes and have pleasant conversation or a nap to and from. It ain't that bad, it's better for the environment to share a ride so keep that in mind when you head into my neighborhood. :hi: