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Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

A little late in response but I stand corrected...lol

I needed a good laugh today and this did the job! Gotta love "Jersey"!!!!

Two comments...

When I lived in Florida, I watched an elderly lady, who was no younger than 70 and probably still driving her first car from 50 years ago, miss her exit off I-95. She proceeded to do a uturn into oncoming traffic, drive maybe 20mph and turn off on her missed exit. All in the midst of a hurricane season downpour.

Last time I was in Jersey, I was following a friend (NJ native) on the turnpike heading to Philly. We left Baltimore after lunch and stopped at his parent's place in Cherryhill by dinner. Not only did it take ridiculously long to get there, but it was a nightmare trying to follow him! I've never seen so many rice burners weave in and out of semi-truck infested, bumper to bumper traffic before! All while going 80mph.

Colin & his dad lived in Fredericksburg, VA and I lived in NJ. There were times I could make it door to door in just under 4 hours. I-95 highway number or speed limit?? Anyone's guess truly! Then there were a few trips it took 6 hours. Then of course there was the once it took me almost 14 hours! Goota love snow storms on the eastern seaboard. Then, if you know anything about the Washington DC area... the 14th street bridge was closed and everything was diverted to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge... Oh My God! If it wasn't Wednesday before Thanksgiving we would have just stopped but I had to get home to make a turkey and all the fixings! We ate thanksgiving dinner in our pajamas because we were all so exhausted from that stupid drive!! LOL But we made it in one piece and had plenty to be thankful for.

Old guard, that's interesting. My NJ story was from Thanksgiving 2006. The drive through DC around midnight on Wednesday was hellish! Some nutcase tried to push us off the far right lane. I had 911 set and ready to call, but we lost him by pulling off the highway and parking at a police depot. Thankfully, I wasn't driving that night.

We were so tired of the trip north on 95, we took the back roads (through Cape May!) back to Florida. Such a beautiful relaxing drive.

I have driven Rte 1 from Maine to Florida. The problem places are Trenton, Philly, DC... it gets tricky to follow Rte 1 when all the peeps in the 'hood steal the damn street signs! My Thanksgiving nightmare was 1997 or 1998. Colin's dad transefered back to Alaska in 2000. But oh what a nightmare! Now I'm in Wisconsin... a traffic jam here means there is a car in front of you at the traffic light, oh perish the thought. LOL

Oh Wisconsin. Only real traffic jam I've seen there was trying to drive by the stadium in Green Bay.

We took Rt 1 for a good bit, then hopped on 17 after the bridge-tunnel. 17 is pretty much empty til you get to Charleston.