Day 6, the most brutal ride ever

Well it started out OK, we left Virginia going north on the I-95 and then it all fell apart in New Jersey. The turnpike was OK for a while, but our attempts to get gas and lunch were fouled by a stupid road with nothing we could get to in time thanks to arsehole drivers on the right, and a total inability to turn left to get to all the stuff there. Finally we came to a Wawa that we could actually get into and got gas and hoagies.

Then we had to negotiate the smaller roads back around since there was no logical way to get to the other side of the road we came in on. Then came the hundred miles of construction (that might actually be accurate, hard to tell when you are travelling 2-30 mph on a highway. A toll highway at that). Rubberneckers and people merging randomly probably caused more problems than the actual construction.

Then came the madness of New York City. Driving through the city, even if you never leave the I-95, on Memorial Day weekend it is far more horrible than the worst days of winter at rush hour in Toronto. All the roads were parking lots funneling even more people who cannot merge for a crap into an already stopped highway. A trip that should have taken 20 minutes turned into over an hour. All said, New Jersey and New York added about two and a half hours to an already long trip.

Finally free of the stranglehold New York had on traffic, we made decent time through Connecticut and finally to Springfield Massachusetts. We made our way to Six Flags New England, got our season passes, rode once on Bizarro (will do a proper write-up after day 7) and found a hotel and food.

By all means, avoid the Jersey Turnpike. The endless construction just devastates the traffic flow, usually for no visible reason when you get past the bunch-up, and it is just not worth paying for when you could take back roads and make much better time.

Looking forward to some rest. The park is gonna be nuts tomorrow, at least when we hit Six Flags Great Adventure it will be during the week and should be less insane than it would be this weekend.