Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2008

Road Trip Back to Cornell

I actually tried to keep a count in my head this time through the 19-hour drive (while I was awake, that is).

-- Construction zones: 16 (there were maybe 4-5 on I-86 through the middle of nowhere in New York state. The middle of nowhere in New York beats the middle of nowhere in the Midwest because in New York there are things like hills and trees that you can look at)

-- Police stopped alongside the road looking to nab speeders: 9

-- Police stopped alongside the road who already nabbed a speeder: 6

-- Roadkill: 4 (rather low number it seems. Maybe mating season is over, and animals don't have any reason to get lost on roads)

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Home

Hours I drove: approximately 8 of 19 total
Construction zones I drove through: maybe 6 or so
Police vehicles parked on the side of the highway looking for speeders: maybe 11 or so
Police vehicles parked on the side of the highway already with a speeder: maybe 7 or so
Animals already as road kill: lots
Animals about to become road kill: 1 (a squirrel was trying to cross a highway in Ohio, except the highway was separated with a median, so the squirrel was kinda stuck and ran back and forth in the road trying to dodge cars)

At one point it was pouring while I was blinded by sunlight - that was rather weird.