Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Sucks.

six hours to get from Fredricksburg to just North of Baltimore.

You people need to learn how to drive. The whole idea is not to hit
other cars thus blocking five lanes of interstate and locking them up
in gridlock.

Morons. :)

Oh, and Virginia drivers suck.

Woulnd't be a trip report without mentioning that drivers in Virginia
suck. :)


You're going the wrong way. You want to pick up 301 just north of
Richmond, and take it up through that part of Virginia, over the Potomac
River, and into Southern Maryland. It's much less congested, and even if
the speed limits are lower, for most of the trip, it's pretty, scenic
country passing through some lovely farmland.

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:38:12 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:15:56 -0400, hk wrote:

You're going the wrong way. You want to pick up 301 just north of
Richmond, and take it up through that part of Virginia, over the Potomac
River, and into Southern Maryland. It's much less congested,

The last time I was up there that whole LaPlata/Waldorf area was so
built up it was like driving US 19 through Largo/Clearwater.
When I lived there we had less than a half dozen lights from TB to
Aqua land. Now there are than many in the mile around the Rt 5/301
intersection

That was probably before the Blue Star Memorial Hwy was built.

wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:15:56 -0400, hk wrote:

You're going the wrong way. You want to pick up 301 just north of
Richmond, and take it up through that part of Virginia, over the Potomac
River, and into Southern Maryland. It's much less congested,

The last time I was up there that whole LaPlata/Waldorf area was so
built up it was like driving US 19 through Largo/Clearwater.
When I lived there we had less than a half dozen lights from TB to
Aqua land. Now there are than many in the mile around the Rt 5/301
intersection


IF we are driving up from "da Souf," I get off of 301 N *before* that,
and pick up Route 5 again on the eastern edge of the congestion, and
then cross over the Patuxent River. You certainly are correct about the
301/5 intersection area. Once you are out of that area, if you are
heading to the Beltway and North, you can take Route 4 north. Outside of
the weekday morning rush hour, it's pretty decent.