I have probably mentioned the fact that once a week I go and work at a client location for a few hours. It is just across the county line and a drive of only about 20 miles. When the traffic is reasonably light, it takes about 30 minutes to get there.
However, the traffic seems to get worse and worse every week. Especially in the afternoons – it can take about an hour and a half to drive those 20 miles. And sitting on the freeway in the hot sun, barely moving, just sitting on the hot pavement, car engines stinking up the air for more than an hour is absolutely exhausting and disgusting and quite intolerable. The fact that many people do this every single day just blows my mind.
So this afternoon I decided to try going the “back way.” Now this is not exactly a “direct” route, and it is more than 26 miles going this way (see Google Map of this route). But I’m thinking it has to be better than taking the freeway.
So what do you think – DOES THIS…
LOOK LIKE A NICER DRIVE THAN THIS?
I would say so! Who cares if it takes about 40 minutes or so – at least there is no traffic! And what a lovely drive! It isn’t all in the redwoods the whole way, but a lot of it is, and it is all in the beautiful countryside – no stinking pavement or carbon monoxide fumes! No sitting parked in the middle of miles of hot, crowded freeway! I got home without being stressed out and exhausted for once!
Sanity restored…