From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 1 17: 2:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9571737B40B for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.245.140.234.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.140.234]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA24960; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:02:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9201vR02044; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:01:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 17:01:57 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Joey Garcia , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad Drivers Message-ID: <20011001170157.F304@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20010930171236.O13286-100000@we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net> <20011001121858.A304@blossom.cjclark.org> <200110011948.f91JmaO07477@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110011948.f91JmaO07477@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>; from bmah@acm.org on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:48:36PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:48:36PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > > > The speed limit on I-5 in the San Jaquin Valley is 70 mph. Of course, > ^^^^^^^^^^ > "San Joaquin" > > > if you actually are driving anything less than 80, you'll get run > > down. I can hold a steady 90-95 for miles and still get passed quite a > > bit. The traffic density is typically low, the road is flat, straight > > has good visibility off to the sides. > > ...and it's incredibly boring. Ranks up there with California state > route 152, which is also flat and straight, but you have to contend > occasionally with various pieces of agricultural equipment crossing the > roadway. Lucky me, I get to drive both of these roads every time I > visit my parents. I presume you are taking 152 east from I-5. 152 west from I-5 is not so boring, past the San Luis Reservoir and then down through Gilroy (mmm, garlic) to get to US 101 back up to San Jose. But I can appreciate your plight. I've been driving to Lemoore, CA. CA 198 from I-5 to Lemoore. Twenty-seven miles straight as an arrow through the desert-turned-agricultural fields on the valley. I'm from the midwest originally and the midwest's got nothin' on the valley for being mindnumbingly featureless and flat. I mean f-l-a-t. I've just about killed myself jogging out there, "I'll just go to that next stop sign that looks a couple of hundred yards away and turn around." Well, that stop sign is two or three miles away (and the temperatures and total lack of cover don't help either). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message