This is my blog for Sunday! I’m going to have to do all of these early because I have a ridiculous amount of other homework and family events to deal with also. Forgive me if these get boring, but I have stuff to do. Sunday I am going to begin the ten hour venture from New Jersey back to Ohio, and simply won’t have the time or energy to write these. The journey consists of an hour trip through New Jersey, a five to six hour trip through Pennsylvania, an hour trip through West Virginia, and a three hour trip through Ohio. I also just recently found out that Wiz Khalifa is from Pennsylvania, so I listened to his music all the way through Penn. State (my dad was very unhappy). I also figured out that when I made the trip alone last summer it only seemed to take me about 7 to 8 hours. However when I go with my dad and brother, it always takes at least ten. Part of that is because I never make rest stops and they make at least two, in which they of course have to eat and lounge. The second reason is because my father drives incredibly slower than I do. He goes exactly the speed limit if not less, and he stays in the right lane like a good driver. I have nothing against that. I don’t use the same driving tactics. If I am on the same highway for literally seven hours, I am going to stay in the middle if not left lane, and for the majority of the time it is almost guaranteed that I am going ten miles of the speed limit. Granted, this is only if I have a broad view of traffic and hills in front of me, and there isn’t much traffic. Either way that’s a whole two or three hours I cut off the trip!
It sucks driving with parents because they always seem to drive sooo much slower than we do. As long as there are cars in front of me on the highway, I'll be sure to speed.
ReplyDeleteYeah parents drive MUCH slower than we do!
ReplyDeleteI find that most people in wester PA, West Virginia, and Ohio only use the left lane to pass, and they also drive the speed limit like your dad. In Philly with a 55mph speed limit, I will go 70 just to keep up with trafic, and I get BURNED by people in the left lane driving at least 80mph. I think eastern states drive a lot faster.
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