Row, row, row…

Your car down the highway… Days like this I’m GLAD I got rid of the 6 speed…

SEVEN frikkin hours on I-95 to go 400 miles!!! My butt hurts, and it took an hour to get the seat cushion out of my ass…

Speed up/slowdown- Check, check, check, lather, rinse, repeat…

Panic stops! Check, check

Run off the road- Check

Idiot bikers- 2, both on crotch rockets…

Idiot drivers- Check, check, check, lather, rinse, repeat… Strangest one, two blue hairs in an old Caddy that wouldn’t pass a wide load! Backup at least a mile long. The truck finally pulled over and stopped. When I finally got by them, they were STILL in the left lane doing 40, with the left turn signal on… sigh

Speed traps- fivish… that I saw… Most stopped car, Dodge Challengers.

Things seen- 1 canoe, some reassembly required…

2 1/2 mattresses, 3 chairs, 1 couch, 1 baby carriage, one truck topper (a ‘bit’ worse for wear), one wheel/tire

1970s Ford F-250 highboy towing a trailer with a brand new F-150 on it.

Brand new Ford F-250 towing a trailer with a ’56 F-100 Big window completely restored.

Down by Ft. Bragg, 3 up armored Humvees filled with soldiers in full battle rattle…

Normally the entire trip is 6 1/2 hours, today 8 hours…

Only 6 hours of driving today… Hopefully…

Comments

Row, row, row… — 21 Comments

  1. Can you stretch one 5 hour energy supplement to make it last 6 hours?

    I hate road trips like that.

  2. 6.5 hours down I-95 puts you somewhere Fayette-nam NC. Good place to visit family, that’s about all, though. I’ve got to go there next weekend and am NOT looking forward to the drive. At least I can bypass the DC to Richmond portion, you can’t.
    That’s why wife and I are 3 hours south of home off Highway 17, camped out in the RV.
    Sounds like you are Florida-bound. Safe journey.

  3. I-95 is probably the most frustrating highway on the East Coast. David Allan Coe wrote a song about it. The I95 A**hole Song.

  4. At least you only saw the wheel/tire in the road. The bill for my last “encounter” with same, in the middle of my lane at night on an unlighted road with oncoming headlights, was $5K. And who’d have thought one could do that much damage to an automobile and none of it, save a blown front tire, be visible from the exterior?

    In my neck of the woods, we’re much more likely to see road kill adorning the roads, primarily deer and armadillos, all the members of the latter species apparently being born dead by the side of the road.

  5. What Ed said. The only thing we have like that up here (no interstates, of course) is the two-lane Alcan – all summer long – when you get stuck behind Outsiders in the inevitable RV doing 42 mph.

  6. At least you are a funny bitchabouter. Glad the only things here to worry about are fieldhands driving tractors on 99, and the drug runners on I5…

  7. All- Thanks! To add insult to injury, today was a $1700 panic stop in Atlanta… 4 tires, new front brake rotors and pads, and an alignment, but I DIDN’T hit the SOB!!!

  8. Smart Half and I on I-95 South bound.
    First 12 miles took 45 minutes.
    Things didn’t get better until swinging east of Richmond on 295.

  9. Next time you drive I-95, count the “South of the Border” billboards, and record the distance between the first one you see and the actual tourist trap location.

  10. great stats…
    I thought I was the only one that counted dead animals and appliances on the roadside…

    It does make the time pass a little quicker sometimes.

    TBG

  11. Stretch- Yeah, it didn’t get any better until I got OFF 95… sigh

    Auric- It’s a LONG way, well over 200 miles!

    TGB- I didn’t see a single appliance… strange, now that you mention it!

  12. Miserable, miserable road. Occasionally made exciting when something like a ladder flies off the pick-up in front of you while you’re all doing 75 mph.