Never Travel on Memorial Day....

[vdansk]

Vermont to upstate New York used to be 2 1/2 hours until the Crown Point Bridge closed.  Now it's supposed to be 4 hours...but if one encounters both holiday traffic and a major bicycle race en route, it actually turns out to take 6 hours.  The rest of the way home was a comparatively modest 3 hours. 

Note to self: do not stop helpful pharmaceuticals right before a stressful intergenerational weekend involving extensive car travel...not even for stomach flu.  Or else don't travel with a stomach flu.

You know that point where yelling turns to screaming?  Yeah, well, so do my kids, now.

How many hours until I can go back to work?

Comments

[chris-warrior.livejournal.com]

oh sweetie... wow.

*HUG*

[vdansk]

I'm OK, and so are the kids, and I didn't yell today, let alone scream. And there isn't another holiday weekend for over a month, and I'm going to try not to go up to Vermont for the next one!

[360high.livejournal.com]

Never travel New England any time, any place, near a holiday unless its like Sunday on a three day weekend -- and you're not going to Cape Cod. All of NYC and Boston empty out onto the roads and the major highways turn into parking lots.

*edit.....edit....edit...*

[rantarn.livejournal.com]

Eeek. Not my idea of fun either and sorry to hear all this.