Another sold out night

[earl colby pottinger]

Camping trip

Last camping trip on the long weekend, we messed up.

Small local town (pop. 400) had a Beer-Fest, a Fish-Fry and a Wedding all on the same weekend. Park camping full, Camp sites full, hotels and motels full. The only place available (It was very nice and price included dinner and breakfast) wanted $250 per person per day.

Ended up camping in a marina surrounded by loud boaters. You take what you can get.

[XCashier]

I think my record between Portland and Seattle is around two and a half hours.

That is good time! Was that in the middle of the night?

Yes, the traffic is very, very bad in and between those two cities. Don't know what can be done (don't think there's room to widen the freeways or add additional ones) but screaming at the hotel clerk definitely won't help.

[bhskittykatt]

That is good time! Was that in the middle of the night?

It was in the middle of the night. Traffic was down, and they were just setting up construction cones for lane closures when I passed through Vancouver and Tacoma (and eventually Everett). And I have a lead foot.

[hotelslave]

Hotel stories on here make my eye start twitching. Remembering being a MOD on sold out nights and reading the stories makes my head hurt. I used to love guests who would leave one of the 3 airports in DC area and call after randomly driving for a while and would then have no idea where they were. If you asked them what they saw they would say Trees.

DC area traffic was bad. It one time took me 2 hours to go 3 miles. No accidents or anything I never understood that. But definitely wasn't a happy camper when I got to work

[lineswine]

USA traffic (even Washington D.C. beltway)? About average.
You want REAL, nose to tail, going 5 mph or standing still? Try the UKs' M62, any weekday morning/evening, between Huddersfield & the M1 turnoff - about 25 miles, or so.
(And they call this "rush hour"? Anything but!)

[Andara Bledin]

The thing about "rush hour" isn't that the people involved are actually rushing anywhere, but that the sudden press of people is a rush. As in, you know, a Zerg rush.

^-.-^

[EricKei]

Ya know, every time I see a "drive time" thread like this, it reinforces my decision to ignore my friend M entirely whenever he suggests I move to a "big city" like NYC or Miami (he doesn't seem to think that finding a JOB there first is all that important), especially because I don't like big cities anyway...

Our idea of a nasty rush hour/game time traffic snarl is when a 15-minute i-10 drive (airport to downton NOLA) takes 45 minutes instead >_> Tho for football games, why is it that people SET OUT to the 'Dome half an our before kickoff when following that route...? I know this because I go watch the game at a friend's house by going the opposite way and see all of the cars stacked up for five miles before the turnoff that gets you into the city proper. The smart ones go there before dawn on game day and set up a camper and grill, then get to work ^_^

Hell, Slidell (southeastern edge of the state) to Baton Rouge (Capitol, central area) is MAYBE 2 hours' drive >_>

[BeenThereDoneThat]

At least some big cities have great public transportation so if you live there you don't necessarily HAVE to have a car, or if you have one you don't need to use it much. I would put NYC in that category, especially Manhattan. (I have driven around Manhattan, however...it's not usually as bad as it might seem, as long as you can roll with the punches of the other crazy drivers )