Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:01:57 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@acm.org> Cc: Joey Garcia <bear@unix.homeip.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad Drivers Message-ID: <20011001170157.F304@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200110011948.f91JmaO07477@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>; from bmah@acm.org on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:48:36PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0109290327070.33494-100000@meow.bsdlabs.com> <20010930171236.O13286-100000@we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net> <20011001121858.A304@blossom.cjclark.org> <200110011948.f91JmaO07477@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:48:36PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > > The speed limit on I-5 in the San Jaquin Valley is 70 mph. Of course, > ^^^^^^^^^^ > "San Joaquin" > > > if you actually are driving anything less than 80, you'll get run > > down. I can hold a steady 90-95 for miles and still get passed quite a > > bit. The traffic density is typically low, the road is flat, straight > > has good visibility off to the sides. > > ...and it's incredibly boring. Ranks up there with California state > route 152, which is also flat and straight, but you have to contend > occasionally with various pieces of agricultural equipment crossing the > roadway. Lucky me, I get to drive both of these roads every time I > visit my parents. I presume you are taking 152 east from I-5. 152 west from I-5 is not so boring, past the San Luis Reservoir and then down through Gilroy (mmm, garlic) to get to US 101 back up to San Jose. But I can appreciate your plight. I've been driving to Lemoore, CA. CA 198 from I-5 to Lemoore. Twenty-seven miles straight as an arrow through the desert-turned-agricultural fields on the valley. I'm from the midwest originally and the midwest's got nothin' on the valley for being mindnumbingly featureless and flat. I mean f-l-a-t. I've just about killed myself jogging out there, "I'll just go to that next stop sign that looks a couple of hundred yards away and turn around." Well, that stop sign is two or three miles away (and the temperatures and total lack of cover don't help either). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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