[MR] Travel travails

[Dave Montuori]

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)