Goodbye Baltimore
I left Baltimore at 9:00 yesterday morning, bound for Cary, by way of I-95. It was the easiest trip I've ever had from that neck of the woods, with zero traffic stoppages and only two brief (less than 10 minutes) slowdowns. Whether it was time of day only or a combination of that and lower levels of traffic, I don't know.
Traffic was moving so well that I decided to go around Washington, DC on the eastern side (I-95 and I-495 Beltline). No problems even with construction of the new bridge over the Potomac and the never-ending construction on the beltline interchanges.
The highlight of any trip to or from the DC area is, for me, the Varina-Enon concrete cable-stayed bridge 150 feet above the James River on the I-295 bypass around Richmond. Bridges of this type are, in my opinion, one of the finest examples of human ingenuity. Based on simple engineering principles, they are beautiful to view, economical in construction, and extraordinarily functional.
Sam, Murph and I arrived in Cary after 5.5 hours on the road that included an all-important stop in Quantico, Virginia for $3.95 a gallon gasoline and a cup of Dunkin Donut coffee.
Traffic was moving so well that I decided to go around Washington, DC on the eastern side (I-95 and I-495 Beltline). No problems even with construction of the new bridge over the Potomac and the never-ending construction on the beltline interchanges.
The highlight of any trip to or from the DC area is, for me, the Varina-Enon concrete cable-stayed bridge 150 feet above the James River on the I-295 bypass around Richmond. Bridges of this type are, in my opinion, one of the finest examples of human ingenuity. Based on simple engineering principles, they are beautiful to view, economical in construction, and extraordinarily functional.
Sam, Murph and I arrived in Cary after 5.5 hours on the road that included an all-important stop in Quantico, Virginia for $3.95 a gallon gasoline and a cup of Dunkin Donut coffee.
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