Comfort Zone

I can drive US Highways easy because I know I'm in control but in LA Traffic these dummies will cut you off and slam on their brakes and do all sorts of crazy stuff. Just today I had a distance of 5 cars between me and another truck but a bunch of cars decided since there was room and they would all try to fit into my lane and they ended up all slamming on their brakes, which then made me slam on my brakes even though I left enough room. Then after everything settled down they realized that my lane is actually slow and they all jump out of the lane they had just got into. Gotta love these Bafoons!

I hope I can see the west coast next week.

I hated driving two lane roads at night simply because every 4-wheeler on the planet puts their brights on and blinds you. Drives me nuts!

Yep, old and narrow US highways can be tough at night. Like taking US 15 N up through PA into upstate New York

I used to run that all the time. I was with a division based out of the Scranton area and used to go home to Buffalo on the weekends. I was on 15 a lot.

I hated driving two lane roads at night simply because every 4-wheeler on the planet puts their brights on and blinds you. Drives me nuts!

Yep, old and narrow US highways can be tough at night. Like taking US 15 N up through PA into upstate New York

I used to run that all the time. I was with a division based out of the Scranton area and used to go home to Buffalo on the weekends. I was on 15 a lot.

Buffalo - that's exactly where I go when I take 15 N up from Carlisle, PA. It's pretty much 15 N into NY, then we are routed through some back roads, passing through where they make the Genesse (spelling?) beer, and eventually up to Buffalo. I really enjoy upstate NY. I've been to our terminals in Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo. We have one in Newburg (spelling?), but I don't know if you'd consider that upstate. You live in a nice area Brett. I like the backwoods ;) Just not sure how I'm gonna feel going up to Syracuse in winter time with all the snow!

Just not sure how I'm gonna feel going up to Syracuse in winter time with all the snow!

Ya know.....it really depends on the direction of the winds coming across Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. As cold air comes across the relatively warmer lakes it forms condensation which then dumps snow hard almost immediately after reaching land. If the winds are from the Northwest then Syracuse and Rochester get blasted from Lake Ontario. If they're coming from due West or Southwest then Buffalo and "The Southtowns" to the South and West of Buffalo get blasted by Lake Erie. So you really never know. And heaven forbid the winds change direction because they literally blow the snowstorm onto land. Wherever the wind goes, the snow follows.

I can't tell you how many times I've come out of Buffalo going East on I-90 in a snowstorm and halfway to Rochester the sun comes out and it's clear all the way going West. Buffalo on a radar screen looks almost like "Pigpen" on Charlie Brown - there's always this snowstorm hovering above us and everyone else is clear!

I take 15 N up from Carlisle, PA. It's pretty much 15 N into NY, then we are routed through some back roads, passing through where they make the Genesse (spelling?) beer, and eventually up to Buffalo

I believe you're referring to taking I-390 and then route 36 and 20A across toward Buffalo. When you're doing that in the winter, watch the weather radar closely. There will be times that getting off on route 36 and going West would be the last thing you'd want to do. Stay on I-390 to I-90 and across into Buffalo. Other times the opposite will be true. I-90 will be getting blasted so you'll want to stay South and cut across route 36 and 20A.

You also might be going route 63 to route 20. That's another way people go instead of 36 and 20A. It really depends. But regardless, watch that weather radar. You can normally avoid the worst of the Lake Effect snows if you know where they're hitting.

You live in a nice area Brett. I like the backwoods

It really is beautiful in Upstate New York. I used to get a kick out of telling people I'm from New York and they'd say, "Oh how can you stand it??? I would never want to live in a huge city like that!" People tend to think the entire state is New York City when in fact over 90% of the land in New York is mountainous wilderness.

I loved New York state once day broke and the rain stopped we picked up a load in south Carolina and had to drop in Kingston NY then picked up a trailer full of yogurt around New Berlin NY and had to take that to Washington state I had to drive in to NY state at night while it was raining I didn't like that part but the rest of the trip was beautiful and I'm with everyone else I don't like two lane roads

LA traffic is challenging!

What a nice word for it.

The word(s) I'd choose would be decidedly more R-rated.