Where are we going and what's with this handbasket?
I'm either stupidly awesome or awesomely stupid. Yesterday I drove 9 hours from Madison, Wisconsin, to Lincoln, Nebraska. To put this in perspective, the longest time I'd ever operated a car solo before was about three minutes (taking my dad to the bus station and bringing the car back).
Didn't die, nobody honked at me, hopefully haven't gotten any speeding tickets. My excuse for coming here is that my friend YH is bored staying in her cousin's apartment all summer, but I think I had something to prove to myself.
When you drive for 9 hours in one day, your skills improve perforce. The only major mistake I made was that there was one part on the route where I-151 and I-61 overlap. I was following the Yahoo Maps instructions (17 steps) instead of Google Maps (33 steps) and so missed the part where I-151 split off again. I stopped for lunch in Davenport, Iowa and then realized Davenport was nowhere near my route. Fortunately it was in right direction and it's on I-80, which I had to get on later anyway. I-80 is the most boring highway ever and it runs all the way across Iowa, which is the second most boring of the United States that I've been to (sorry, David!).
Casualties: left and right buttocks. I didn't realize driving could be so painful.
Rental car (from Avis) is a Pontiac G6. Sweeeeeet. 
posted by xenobiologista @ 23:34
2 Comments:
Sweet ride :)
The longest I've driven was about 10 hours. We were driving from Pittsburgh to St Pauls in Minnesota. We stopped for lunch in Chicago after 8 hours. Then, I braved the I-90 jam and ploughed 2 more hours to Madison before I started to see double (the highway lines had mirror ghosts floating just above).
YahooMaps is horrible. I remember following its directions to Ann Arbor after Urbana03 (with Sarah, YJ, YX, and Amy in tow). It told me to go east 15 miles on some highway, before taking a U-TURN and going back the same damn way. Sesaran kosong after 30 miles. Google or Mapquest are definitely the way to go.
Sweet ride :)
The longest I've driven was about 10 hours. We were driving from Pittsburgh to St Pauls in Minnesota. We stopped for lunch in Chicago after 8 hours. Then, I braved the I-90 jam and ploughed 2 more hours to Madison before I started to see double (the highway lines had mirror ghosts floating just above).
YahooMaps is horrible. I remember following its directions to Ann Arbor after Urbana03 (with Sarah, YJ, YX, and Amy in tow). It told me to go east 15 miles on some highway, before taking a U-TURN and going back the same damn way. Sesaran kosong after 30 miles. Google or Mapquest are definitely the way to go.
-Ater
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