Holiday Traffic

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 09/02/2019 at 16:56 • Filed to: None

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There's a peculiar vibe to holiday traffic. Hard to describe, but sort of prone to be dickish.

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/02/2019 at 16:52

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Holiday sale on 12vs, huh?

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/02/2019 at 16:54

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This is why we always went to Santa Cruz for holidays, totally reverse flow traffic.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 09/02/2019 at 16:56

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Lithium ion.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/02/2019 at 17:23

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Vaca is spanish for cow. You live in C ow T own.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 09/02/2019 at 18:45

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Nope; don’t live there, just drive through when I can’t help it.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/02/2019 at 19:02

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Moo

Just Jeepin' > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/02/2019 at 21:06

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Not my fault! Still waiting for the holiday weekend to end so I can rent a car while my Jeep is in the shop. Walked 3.5 miles (round trip)  to have dinner , woohoo.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/02/2019 at 21:19

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I just drove through it to get to Houston. After the first wreck on I-10, I opted to take the rural highway, HWY-90, for the rest of the trip. The top speeds weren’t as high and there were small towns to navigate, but overall, it was a much more pleasant drive which only added 10-20 minutes to the drive time. Holiday traffic is terrible on  the interstate.

SiennaMan > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 09/02/2019 at 21:29

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I think the dickishness is the other motorists being stressed and on unfamiliar roads.  Add in even about average volume and you have a scenario that rarely brings out the best in humanity..

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TheRealBicycleBuck 09/03/2019 at 07:28

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Rural highway is a great way to go. We have traveled long stretches of the country that way, towing our tent trailer. We can make 60-65 mph no problem, which is about as fast as we'd make on the interstate.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/03/2019 at 11:34

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Which direction are you usually heading in from? HWY 17 is a nightmare on holiday weekends coming in from San Jose…but if you take the back roads through the mountains or HWY 1 it’s a very beautiful and enjoyable   drive. 

Miss that town, hear it’s changed quite a bit over the last few years though and has become even more prohibitively expensive with money from the valley pouring in.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ZHP Sparky, the 5th 09/03/2019 at 12:36

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We used to go from the 5->Turn west at Tracy, go south at Livermore, then - > 880 -> HWY 17 into town, then reverse to get back to S acramento. Counter flow the entire way. I’ve done the return up HWY 1 then through SF but that is a much longer drive and there are tolls and stuff. 

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 09/03/2019 at 13:26

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Yeah that last bit on your drive after 880 turns in to 17 and gets in to the twisties, and turning in to a bottleneck dropping you off in Santa Cruz can get pretty gnarly on holiday weekends. You can beat it with timing (get there early/leave late) so maybe you’ve been lucky.

Also can be horrendous during commute times too as 17 is the only real way in to the valley from the Santa Cruz area – so any accident shuts it all down. It’s a great road to drive when it’s not busy though, know it like the back of my hand and miss it a lot (went to grad school at UC Santa Cruz 05-07, and worked in the bay area until 2016 so visited quite often in that decade after graduation). Now we live in OR so haven’t been back since .

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ZHP Sparky, the 5th 09/03/2019 at 13:30

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So you have experience being stuck behind slow moving Porsche 911's too?