I left my Mom’s in Holbrook, Long Island, NY at 9:39 am this morning, hursday, 12\/27\/13. Google Maps showed 5 hours 1 minute in current traffic to the Amtrak Station in Lorton, VA where I will board the Auto Train tomorrow. I hope. The close-in LIE was a bit crowded and traffic slowed at the LIE\/BQE merge. Then not too bad after than over the Verazzano and the Goethal’s Bridges onto the New Jersey Turnpike South. I stopped for lunch at a rest area in building traffic. In the past hour I have gone exactly 2.3 miles. It is now 1:30 and I am online in the car and typing this blog post. Really! <\/p>\n
I will get off at exit 8 and try to head south on local highways to hook up with 295 and then rejoin 95 south at some point. <\/p>\n
Man, you gotta love it. Oh, I forgot to mention: I finally caught Denise Ippolito’s cold. My nose has been dripping like a sieve since yesterday.<\/p>\n
Sympathetic comments welcome. <\/p>\n
The worst of it was over at 2:39pm: 5 hours, only 112 miles. A whopping 22.4 mph. But I was actually having a good day. The accident: two tractor trailers, two passenger cars: 3 fatalities. Stopped at the Delaware Welcome Center at 4 o’clock with 189 miles under my belt. Probably about 125 miles to go to Lorton…. More later. <\/p>\n
6:40pm Update: Safe in front of the Comfort Inn in Lorton, VA. Had some nasty traffic on the Baltimore–Washington Parkway. Total time: Exactly 9 hours, 1 minute. All in all 4 hours of traffic delays most due to the tragedy on the New Jersey Turnpike. Total miles: 512. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Traffic Hell! <\/p>\n
I left my Mom’s in Holbrook, Long Island, NY at 9:39 am this morning, hursday, 12\/27\/13. Google Maps showed 5 hours 1 minute in current traffic to the Amtrak Station in Lorton, VA where I will board the Auto Train tomorrow. I hope. The close-in LIE was a bit crowded and traffic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-147","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}