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By: Kri

Kri — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:31:19 +0000

The day and night speed limits are wierd. I definitely am a better highway driver, and know what to expect now for sure.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:07:59 +0000

I guess my comment was moderated and it gave me this cute message when I tried to post again:

"Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you've already said that!"

Now that's new. I like!

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:04:41 +0000

Baby bug! Ha, it sure is baby season. My co-worker just left on maternity leave - knitted up some cute booties for the couple

As for driving. Bah. Well, I live in Mass, my commute goes in and out of Boston on 93… in the six months I’ve been here, I have seen the craziest stuff. I miss NH On the plus side, it has made me a better driver by learning to be a little more self-confident and watch my mirrors religiously.

As for weird speed limits, in Texas - not sure where else, but the speed limit changes for day and night. One sign is white, the other black. Kinda neat.

By: Kri

Kri — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:57:29 +0000

Thanks Nathan, we had a great time too Corey caught the baby bug while we were down

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:48:00 +0000

I get aggravated every time I see someone cruising down the road in the left lane. To be honest, though, it happened as frequently when I was in Massachusetts as it does down here.

Glad you guys made it back safe and sound. We had such a great time with you. Let's make it less than two years next time.

By: Kri

Kri — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:21:52 +0000

Haha, who knows Cade I wasn’t paying attention to your driving. Hmmm I’m not familiar with Twitter but I’m sure I could figure it out.

By: Cade

Cade — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:31:07 +0000

now you know what my daily driving is like….unless you think I’m a bad driver? Do you think I’m a bad driver? now I am all nervous. Can you tell me how to put twitter on my food blog?

By: Kri

Kri — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:14:55 +0000

Yeah the traffic circles are becoming big here too, and I hate it.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:29:07 +0000

Yah people in this state pass just as much on the right as they do on the left. What is bad is when people start passing in the emergency lanes when traffic is bad. They have really tried to crack down on that by sending out cops on motorcycles.

I find the speeds here are much higher than in nh. Inner city streets and even downtown roads are usually 35mpg and other streets as much as 40-50 within the city, but its impossible to go that high if you wanted to on some of them. Also interstates going through the city maintain speeds of 65 (everyone goes 10-15 over anyway). Once you are out in the country the interstates go up to 70.

My worse pet peeve though is school buses. They cap their speed at 45mph on any road. So getting stuck behind one on the interstate is horrendous! Everyone else is going 70 and you get stuck at 45 its impossible to get out from behind them. I despise the cap on the buses, if they are so concerned about safety than put seat belts in but frankly they are a road hazard.

I was complaining to my friend the other day that I wish we had minimum speeds on the interstates. The buses almost and sometimes do violate what would not be allowed on northern interstates.

Its also annoying when people don't know how to handle traffic circles. They are putting them in all over the place now to improve some busy roads around campus. At first it was almost a disaster and it took forever for people to figure them out. Now its finally starting to help the congestion. They are planning on converting every intersection on one of the busy streets to this style we'll see how that goes..

For the most part I find people are ok with keeping away from me on steep hills but I still am cautious and sort of ride the clutch to keep from falling back...though if its a long light you can't help but go to the break. Actually on really steep hills I even find automatics will drift back a little.