At 04:12 AM 6/11/2006, Bob W wrote: > > Valley. I might > > > have to head up there for a photo expedition someday ... > > the bad news > > > is that driving there from here involves the aggravation of going > > > > through the worst traffic corridor in this part of the > > world: that 60 > > > miles can take two or more hours if you hit it at the wrong > > moment. > > > But Photo Opportunity Awaits! ;-) > > > > > > fun fun fun, > > > Godfrey > > > > Godders, you don't know you're born. My wife's record for > > the 20mile journey she does to work is two hours fifty > > minutes. One way. It routinely takes an hour. I thought > > there were a lot of cars in California? 8-) > > > >Luxury! > >When I was commuting between here and Rayleigh - a distance of about >35 miles - it sometimes took me over 5 hours to get home on a Friday >evening. I can remember on at least 2 occasions abandoning the car in >East London and taking public transport home, and several times it was >impossible to complete the journey to work because of the weight of >traffic, and I had to turn round and head home. One day I set out for >work at 8.00, hit slow traffic about 5 miles from home, eventually had >to abandon the attempt, and arrived back home at 12.30 having covered >13 miles in 4.5 hours and got nowhere. > >Cars, schmars.
You reckon that's luxurious? Try this. From the time I start my car to when my bum hits my chair at work takes 20 minutes. That includes 5 minutes to warm up the engine and hitting red lights all the way. :-) Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
