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She's leaving on a jetplane, and I'm stuck in traffic
Last week Spring [1] bought a plane ticket to Colorado to visit her kids, and
the cheapest and most direct flight (which, amazingly, is a direct flight to
the Denver International Airport [2]) is from Miami [3].
Her flight leaves in the evening.
Which meant driving to Miami in rush hour traffic.
Joy.
Actually, the trip down there wasn't horrible—we took the Turnpike most of
the way, then cut over to I-95 in Dade County [4] for the rest of the way (I
had debated about taking the Turnpike Extension and then head back east on
836, but while it may have been traffic free, it is way out of the way). We
noticed that I-95 northbound wasn't, so I had planned on taking 836 west to
the Turnpike Extension north.
I dropped Spring off, then started my way back. Unfortunately there didn't
seem to be away to actually get on 836, either east or west—my only choices
were I-95 or LeJeune Road, which leads who knows where?
It was a long drive back.
[1]
http://www.springdew.com/
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/08/01.2
[3]
http://www.miami-airport.com/
[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dade_County,_Florida
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