tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post1179208446301418716..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: Devil, DefeatedAnne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-21899307716249928292009-01-04T19:52:00.000-05:002009-01-04T19:52:00.000-05:00I just got back from St. Louis where my friends an...I just got back from St. Louis where my friends and I navigated across the length of the city, from the Missouri river to the Mississippi, using a AAA map to get around the interstate construction that lined the route from our hotel to the Arch. I love maps.Yvonne Rathbonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04614194420076768577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-82957452845375623022008-12-31T19:43:00.000-05:002008-12-31T19:43:00.000-05:00There is a great Irish/Rock band in NYC (The Prodi...There is a great Irish/Rock band in NYC (The Prodigals), and they named their GPS "Emily". I only know this because they wrote a song about her; driving around in CA, Emily stopped giving verbal directions. So the band wrote a song about how they never appreciated Emily, or told her that they loved her. It's cute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-83272941395976234342008-12-30T23:16:00.000-05:002008-12-30T23:16:00.000-05:00that sounds like hell to me..but i live in a town ...that sounds like hell to me..but i live in a town of 2,000 where if i have to wait for more than 7 cars at a stop sign(usually during before school and after school)i get all pissy..<BR/>i mapped my way from texas to all points east and west...never got lost..love maps..yellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-18501973167186791872008-12-30T17:01:00.000-05:002008-12-30T17:01:00.000-05:00With all due respect, Anon, I've been on the prett...With all due respect, Anon, I've been on the prettier parts of the GSP, down around the shore points with the bridges and the marshes. Maybe it's my Appalachian upbringing, but the highway there is okay. Just okay. Again maybe it's just me, but I'll take 150 miles of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, anyplace along it except the Northeast Extension, and compare it favorably to the GSP.<BR/><BR/>The Jersey Turnpike did not ruin my trip to Croton. It will never again ruin my trip to Croton. I have found a sure-fire way to bypass it completely and will never use it again to go to Croton. In fact, I might go to Croton more often.<BR/><BR/>I've lived in New Jersey for 21 years, and there's much to like here. But not the roadways. Don't even get me started on the Atlantic City Expressway. You've got to be hell-and-gone into Kansas before you find anything more boring than the Atlantic City Expressway. How boring is it? They have signs posted that say, "STAY AWAKE."<BR/><BR/>Alternate route: White Horse Pike. Found that one two decades ago.Anne Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18083739996560380258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-21144476774406262232008-12-30T10:10:00.000-05:002008-12-30T10:10:00.000-05:00The Garden State Parkway is one of the prettiest h...The Garden State Parkway is one of the prettiest highways in the Northeast for about 150 of its 170-some miles. You must have a pretty limited perspective. (BTW, there are shots of the Turnpike and the Pulaski Skyway in the opening of the Sopranos, but no shots of the GSP.) <BR/><BR/>I am sorry that the Turnpike ruined your pleasant little jaunt to Croton-on-Hudson, but as someone who lives in New Jersey, I would rather have the smoke-belching chemical plants along the highway than in my neighborhood.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-12244940208948582512008-12-30T01:45:00.000-05:002008-12-30T01:45:00.000-05:00GPS systems do get snippy when you dare to take ba...GPS systems <I>do</I> get snippy when you dare to take backroads, don't they? I knew one named Linda who, when you went by the exit she demanded you take, would say, "re-CALculating" in a very annoyed and slightly Valley-Girl-esque tone. My theory is that GPS systems receive some kind of funding/bribe from the highway department.<BR/><BR/>She was kind of fun to piss off, I have to admit.Thaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09948272740932982138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-3343771557960743382008-12-29T22:41:00.000-05:002008-12-29T22:41:00.000-05:00I kinda think there are two kinds of people. Free...I kinda think there are two kinds of people. Freeway (or tollway, as the case may be) drivers and surface street (or state highway, again~the case)drivers. I be the latter myself, and go out of my way, but still often faster than my counterparts that do the freeway thing! (I also think there are two OTHER kinds of peope...pinheads and fatheads...but that's another story.)<BR/><BR/>May the gods get bored enough to bless you with unspeakable goodness!!!BaroquePearlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14762225841893273944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-8138746030562659972008-12-29T22:31:00.000-05:002008-12-29T22:31:00.000-05:00And then, there's Route 80 (the Interstate one), a...And then, there's Route 80 (the Interstate one), and Routes 46 and 3, and 17... the list goes on and on...<BR/>How do we cram so much great stuff into such a small area?<BR/>Actually, the Parkway is "good" for any part South Along the Shore. I remember being stuck on that awful excuse for a highway for hours on end. I don't go "down the Shore" anymore for just that reason. I'll stay up in the Sussex County hills, and watch the McMansions that pushed the cows out get pushed out themselves by... I don't know... <I>woods?</I>Servitor Lucemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07792291004791974556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-4014692898694969272008-12-29T22:17:00.000-05:002008-12-29T22:17:00.000-05:00Great blog! I know on my GPS (VZNavigator on my c...Great blog! I know on my GPS (VZNavigator on my cell phone) I can choose to avoid toll roads. I did this when I was on vacation in Florida. The only time it messed me up was when I was leaving the lighthouse down there and wanted something to eat. I found a nice restaurant a mile away (or so the GPS told me). 2 hours later I found out it was a mile across water on the other side of the river. DOH! Glad you navigated away form the devil though!slayerboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13654989997067880470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-88668366829682445442008-12-29T15:31:00.000-05:002008-12-29T15:31:00.000-05:00Great points about the NJ TP! I'd like to amend y...Great points about the NJ TP! I'd like to amend your statement about the speed at which the maniacs move: bumper-to-bumper traffic generally moves at over 70 mph, and woe betide anyone who attempts to leave more than one car length between themselves and the nearest maniac! Sometimes it is clear and goes much faster; sometimes it is stop-and-go.<BR/><BR/>I avoid driving that close to NYC at all costs! (Speaking of costs, the further-out routes actually cost less, toll-wise, and take more predictable times due to there being little traffic, even on holidays.)<BR/><BR/>--Emily of western MA, writing from the Phillie PA area, and formerly of northern NJ (so yes, I know that of which I speak!)Emily Viehlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07847707870064820249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-85351295699067426272008-12-29T11:51:00.000-05:002008-12-29T11:51:00.000-05:00I love maps.One of my more enjoyable bouts of bein...I love maps.<BR/>One of my more enjoyable bouts of being employed was with the premier map company of South Africa.<BR/>I love how 3 dimensions gets transposed into 2, with all the information necessary to let you tranlsate it back again into a route you're driving.<BR/>Contrary to poular wisdom, women are better equipped to read maps than men-we have more of the part of the frontal lobe used in these exercises!<BR/>Remembering being hit by a flying hubcap when I lived in New Jersey -maybe it was on the demon turnpike.<BR/><BR/>Love,<BR/>Terri in JoburgAquila ka Hecatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00725237187718174157noreply@blogger.com