[MR] "Center" of the Kingdom

Tue Apr 14 10:23:40 PDT 2009

Trust me Dryw I understand I95 and leaving from the city. I grew up in the DC area right at the mixing bowl and up until last year I lived only 1 mile from the district right next to crystal city on Rt1. I am still in the burbs; just the far out burbs.

Friday at 1 on 95 would be a disaster because it was Easter weekend; normally we are not holding Kingdom events on Easter. Leaving at 1 on a normal Friday would only slow you down a few minutes as Friday traffic is a little heavier than normal. On a holiday weekend everyone leaves at noon; been there done that. Don't even get me started on trying to go to Myrtle beach on Friday 4th of July weekend; 6 hours took 11.

I would suggest using I66 to 29 as we took on any holiday weekend. In normal traffic that might be an add on of 10-15 minutes vs I95; on a holiday it will likely save you over an hour of sitting. 

Hope this helps anyone in the DC area.

Baron James de Biblesworth

> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:34:41 -0700
> From: drywdryw at yahoo.com
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [MR] "Center" of the Kingdom
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> As someone who lives in the actual District of Columbia, I'd also like to point out that if DC area traffic is a significant concern for you, you've already limited the number of events that you're willing to go to!  (Isn't that right, Theron?)  It's not just a question of whether Reidsville or Richmond or even Quantico is too far--EVERYWHERE is too far.  It took me 3 hours to get out of town on Friday, and that was leaving around 1 pm.  As a teacher, I can't usually take off early on Fridays, so I just realize and accept the fact that travelling to events is going to take either some very creative planning or some extra time in traffic.  If the event is important to me, it's worth it.  If sitting in traffic seems too much of a price to pay, then I guess I didn't really want to go to the event anyway.  (While I recognize that in SOME cases, additional travel costs are prohibitive, I do think that in most cases, people can find a way to get to
> the events that mean the most to them--whether it's skipping other events or looking for ways to reduce costs, or whatever.  MOST of the time.)  Anyway, as far as the DC trafic issue is concerned, unless the permanent site is actually IN (name your NoVa or Southern Maryland suburb), the drive isn't going to be any more prohibitive than it is for 90% of the other event sites in the universe.  
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> With far more knowledge of I-95 South than she ever wanted,
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> --- On Tue, 4/14/09, James Barker <flonzy at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> From: James Barker <flonzy at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] "Center" of the Kingdom
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 12:17 PM
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> The site used this last weekend is straight down 29 just over the boarder in
> NC. From Ashburn (Dulles Airport) it took a about 4-4.5 hours leaving at the end
> of rush-hour traffic but we did not have to go through DC or touch I95. If I
> were still in Alexandria I would leave at a time to avoid rush-hour or holiday
> traffic. Sapphire Joust takes 3 or so hours from here (going south and east vs
> going south) so really it is not that huge of a time difference if you live
> west/northwest of DC and Bmore.
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> I have to say I love the Reidsville site and I feel it is about a central a
> site as we can really get when we are such a large kingdom. People on the
> extremes of MD are not further away than some in SC and GA. 
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> > Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:48:50 -0700
> > From: poetamilitarus at yahoo.com
> > To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> > Subject: [MR] "Center" of the Kingdom
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> > Btw, for those up north using Caer Mear as a reference point for this site
> as I have seen in some posts (i.e. 3-4 hours to Caer Mear from thier group) this
> site is 3.5 hours South of Caer Mear, so don't consider us in the equation. 
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> > I would assume however if you were coming from somewhere like Highland
> Forde that you would take a route down I-81 instead and bypass Caer Mear in
> total, since there is no direct way to get to Betsy-Jeff from Richmond. 
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