the trip down
Well, the past weekend was an eventful weekend. The family, including jasmine went down to my parent’s house in Charlotte NC for the fourth of July. We left Friday afternoon, and arrived stupidly early in the morning on Saturday. The traffic on the way south was absolutely horrific. I have never seen traffic that bad on the trip south. It was definitely holiday weekend traffic. Crisy and I hit the usual backups in Northern Virginia that lasted until Fredericksburg. Then we hit backups north of Richmond, south of Richmond, and again through Petersburg. We thought that once we hit 85 we would be in the clear, wrong. we hit 85 at about 9 or 10pm, and normally at that time of night, 85 is very much like a back country road. There are usually mostly trucks, and very few cars, on the road at that late hour. Not this time though, although there were no backups as such, the volume of traffic was intense and would travel in bunches at 70 miles per hour. I would have figured that most of t