Teleidoscope

Wed, Nov 29, 2006

Routes

Posted at 6:56 pm MST to Miscellaneous

I've been holding off, because living in an apartment that was mostly packed would be annoying and make me more homesick, but tonight I have officially begun to pack for the trip home 10 days from now.

I have also gone online to the AAA website and started generating alternative triptiks. The shortest quickest route involves I90 thorugh Massachusetts and New York, eventually connecting to I80 at Cleveland. Then it's I80 across the Midwest and through Nebraska to I76, to Denver.

I really dislike the NY State Thruway.

In nice weather I prefer an alternate route that takes I84 through Connecticut and lower New York to I81, then I81 through Wilkes Barre to pick up I80 in Pennsylvania. But there are some steep spots on I81 in the Appalachians that were twisty and single lane (because of construction) when I came through last spring on the trip west.

Some of the I81 scariness may have been because I was tired after driving 1700 miles. But the AAA charts show LOTS of construstion through Pennsylvania on I80, so I don't think cutting south to I80 even farther east will help.

I've saved both triptiks. As we get closer to travel time I'll check the weather predictions for Wilkes Barre and Buffalo NY, and decide which route to take depending on the weather.

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