[MR] Travel travails
Dave Montuori
damont at wolfstar.com
Tue Nov 21 09:44:33 PST 2006
Respondit Eadric the Potter ad me:
>> Scripsit Alisoun:
>>> And the space on I-95 between I-26 and Florence is the looongest and
>>> most sleep inducing stretch of road in the universe. . .
>>
>> Hmmm. I think I-40 between I-95 and Wilmington NC gives that stretch of
>> 95 a run for its money.
>
> Not even in the ballpark. Try the Ohio Turnpike, in its entirety, or I-70
> across Nebraska...Omaha to Cheyenne, Wyoming is about 10 hours in an
> absolute straight line, no turns no hills no trees nothin'.
>
> I-94 from Portage, WI to La Crosse is pretty bad, too. 'Course, I always
> seem to be driving that at night, which doesn't help.
>
> I-65 from Gary to Indianapolis is also soul-crushingly dull, though
> mercifully only a couple hours long. I-5 from LA to San Fran is also
> mind-numbing, but at least the weather is usually nice.
Never been to California or Nebraska, but I've driven all the other
stretches you mentioned. The Ohio Turnpike at least varies a bit between
rural and suburbia. I-65 in NW Indiana and I-94 in western Wisconsin are
stultifying, yes, but you can see a little further out on to the plains
than you can into the unremitting line of trees surrounding those two
monotonous stretches in the Carolinas.
I do suspect that the western Great Plains are probably the worst though,
or maybe some of the desert stretches of I-40 or I-10.
Dave/Evan
(who does not live very close to sleep-inducing highways, only
panic-attack-inducing ones)
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