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You mentioned in the other thread that you and your wife went through with the car swap plan.... I didn't think to ask over there: How does she like this arrangement?
https://youtu.be/9xVb29vZtKg
Funny thing, the drive back was smooth as can be, Bremerton to Bellevue in about 70-75 minutes.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
On the way back, put cruise at 70 and just enjoy the drive, even the Tacoma Dome area wasn't too bad for more than a couple minutes.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
Funny thing about the creeping along - traffic had stopped for an instant earlier. This triggered the "eco" function, which shut down the car for a split second. This tricked the dashcam into thinking the car was parked, and it remained in "parking mode" for several minutes, not realizing the engine had started and the car was moving ahain.
23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
I hit the road again today, I'll end up with rounding up to around 1000 miles in a week by the time the weekend is over. The weather was amazing today, more like early summer than mid October. Compare this shot with the slow motion from Monday in the same location - no traffic problems on the drive today:
https://youtu.be/SkcZHx76CdQ
Might be hard to see as the files switched over when the idiocy began - white Challenger with Army plate frames (represent!) made an abrupt multi lane exit at JBLM, fortunately those around him were attentive:
https://youtu.be/Lm8tCXgCkMY
Drove by a serious crash in the oncoming lane shortly after it took place, authorities not on the scene yet. Two trucks were pretty much destroyed, one might have rolled. I saw an elderly looking person being helped out of the most mangled one, so I hope they were OK, but still a hard hit:
https://youtu.be/5qyUzJyNXBI
Having said that we just came back from LA (flew down, rented a lousy Corolla there). Main purpose was Disneyland but I made sure to incorporate a visit to Petersens Museum, as well as stopping by a few of the high end dealers, once again mainly for my son. We managed to stop by Ogara Coach where they had two Chirons and a Pagani Huayra in the showroom.
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
https://youtu.be/CQ7gc6xb5Q8
Not 10 minutes later, northbound backed up due to a crash:
https://youtu.be/LwaCIOsXqXE
But by then it was smooth sailing all the way home.
https://youtu.be/77ApznzIvGI
I was calmly merging in, allowing room for the Camaro, taking turns, then I hear the roar of an inbred driving a diesel pickup with workplace/company logos and numbers all over it, who floors it and zigs around. Funny thing, later he got stuck in a middle lane, and threw up his hands when I passed, as if to say "what you honkin at?!?". He later fell behind out of my line of sight. If I was a jerk, I'd call his employer and send him this, but knowing this region and so many of the trades who are allowed virtual immunity in an area with an overheated construction market, his boss is his uncle or daddy.
The sad thing.... you almost forgot about it (which tells me that stuff like this is unreasonably common).
I still like how he raced forward, then got stuck and backed off. Maybe he was having a bad day and cooled off.
And yeah, driving around here is a gong show. Usually slower speed stupidity, and I swear signal use decreases every day.
Then on to Iowa, where population density allows for little real traffic. It seems many don't understand cruise control though, played what I call the yo-yo game (passing and being passed multiple times) several times.
Edit, just saw the JGC in the other forum. A good car for the trip you're doing.
A pic from today, dirty Jeep in front of a funky old piece of architecture now famous via the internet, "The Gobbler":
Watch out for that first step, it's a doozie.
I was on the road all day today in the fun that is Chicagoland. Honestly, the only part that seems worse are road conditions. Same traffic nightmare and goofy drivers, just in their own ways.
Astute viewers will recognize this house:
I also saw one of my favorite Frank Lloyd Wright houses:
It's getting cold here.
next hint: theme song is by Frank Sinatra!
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
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That's quite a mishap, though. Perhaps good, perhaps bad.... those sorts of crashes tend to be the most surprising simply because they are so unexpected and "out of nowhere". I mean, you might be wary of crossing or turning traffic on a right like that, but being hit from behind on the right? Where did THAT come from?! /sigh
By "perhaps good," I mean that often people are less prone to injury when they don't see a crash imminent and, therefore, do not have a chance to involuntarily tense up before the impact.