OT: Driving to Florida?
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We're going on a trip from Santa Fe to Orlando FL.
Obviously flying is the standard way to go, but we're thinking just a bit about driving .. we generally enjoy car trips if the traffic is not horrible and the drive is interesting. Anyone with experience on driving to Florida (or nearby) from Santa Fe? We're clueless as to what the driving is like .. but would love to pick up some good southern cooking along the way! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org |
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A few things I remember about my drive from Tampa to Santa Fe.
- make sure the cruise control works - you will exhaust your entertainment possibilities - every room in every Red Roof Inn is EXACTLY the same. This can be very useful when you have to use the restroom in the middle of the night. - a few miles after entering Texas, you see a sign that says something like "mile marker 989", and you realize that you will be driving to the OTHER side of this state, at that point there is a very interesting silence in the car. - Get off the interstates when you can. I highly recommend The Fountains hotel in Orlando. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com]On > Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:44 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam > Subject: [FRIAM] OT: Driving to Florida? > > > We're going on a trip from Santa Fe to Orlando FL. > > Obviously flying is the standard way to go, but we're thinking just a > bit about driving .. we generally enjoy car trips if the traffic is > not horrible and the drive is interesting. > > Anyone with experience on driving to Florida (or nearby) from Santa > Fe? We're clueless as to what the driving is like .. but would love > to pick up some good southern cooking along the way! > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore > http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > |
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Old trucker saying--the sun done riz, the sun done set, and here's my
ass in Texas yet. Mike On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:48 AM, jpgirard wrote: > A few things I remember about my drive from Tampa to Santa Fe. > > - make sure the cruise control works > - you will exhaust your entertainment possibilities > - every room in every Red Roof Inn is EXACTLY the same. This can > be very > useful when you have to use the restroom in the middle of the night. > - a few miles after entering Texas, you see a sign that says > something like > "mile marker 989", and you realize that you will be driving to the > OTHER > side of this state, at that point there is a very interesting > silence in the > car. > - Get off the interstates when you can. > > I highly recommend The Fountains hotel in Orlando. > > Jim > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com]On >> Behalf Of Owen Densmore >> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:44 AM >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam >> Subject: [FRIAM] OT: Driving to Florida? >> >> >> We're going on a trip from Santa Fe to Orlando FL. >> >> Obviously flying is the standard way to go, but we're thinking just a >> bit about driving .. we generally enjoy car trips if the traffic is >> not horrible and the drive is interesting. >> >> Anyone with experience on driving to Florida (or nearby) from Santa >> Fe? We're clueless as to what the driving is like .. but would love >> to pick up some good southern cooking along the way! >> >> -- Owen >> >> Owen Densmore >> http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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In reply to this post by Owen Densmore
Owen,
At some point, you'll have to use I-10, but I'd recommend avoiding it until after Lousiana and Mississippi. I'm in Tallahassee and things seem fine here, but I was in Lake Charles, Lousiana before Christmas and it's still recovering. It's not the damage thats a problem - that's mostly fixed or immaterial to your travel. However, hotels and restaurants in hurricane damaged areas (Katrina and Rita) are not providing full services. In Lake Charles, the only hotel rooms are at a casino for $200+ dollars a night. As our host put it, things aren't back to normal - Wal-Mart is only open until 2000. If you have freedom to time this, I'd recommend taking I-40 out of ABQ and jogging down to Canton, Texas for a First Monday event (first full week of a month). Canton is east of Dallas on the freeway to Tyler (famous for roses which won't be blooming this time of year). Alternatively, you could take I-40 all the way to Georgia and then turn south. Ray Parks -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] on behalf of Owen Densmore Sent: Thu 1/19/2006 10:44 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam Subject: [FRIAM] OT: Driving to Florida? We're going on a trip from Santa Fe to Orlando FL. Obviously flying is the standard way to go, but we're thinking just a bit about driving .. we generally enjoy car trips if the traffic is not horrible and the drive is interesting. Anyone with experience on driving to Florida (or nearby) from Santa Fe? We're clueless as to what the driving is like .. but would love to pick up some good southern cooking along the way! -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3612 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20060119/a1487985/attachment.bin |
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As the song says - Texas is miles of miles of miles of miles.
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In reply to this post by jpgirard
If you want to avoid interstates just take U.S. 82 from Lubbock, TX to
Waycross, GA. You will be north of the hurricane damage and will get a full dose of Southern cooking and Southern everything else. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz (505) 995-8715 or (505) 670-9918 (cell) Santa Fe, NM 87505 wimberly3 at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of jpgirard Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:48 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OT: Driving to Florida? A few things I remember about my drive from Tampa to Santa Fe. - make sure the cruise control works - you will exhaust your entertainment possibilities - every room in every Red Roof Inn is EXACTLY the same. This can be very useful when you have to use the restroom in the middle of the night. - a few miles after entering Texas, you see a sign that says something like "mile marker 989", and you realize that you will be driving to the OTHER side of this state, at that point there is a very interesting silence in the car. - Get off the interstates when you can. I highly recommend The Fountains hotel in Orlando. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:Friam-bounces at redfish.com]On > Behalf Of Owen Densmore > Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:44 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Friam > Subject: [FRIAM] OT: Driving to Florida? > > > We're going on a trip from Santa Fe to Orlando FL. > > Obviously flying is the standard way to go, but we're thinking just a > bit about driving .. we generally enjoy car trips if the traffic is > not horrible and the drive is interesting. > > Anyone with experience on driving to Florida (or nearby) from Santa > Fe? We're clueless as to what the driving is like .. but would love > to pick up some good southern cooking along the way! > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore > http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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In reply to this post by Owen Densmore
we drive to Virginia <-> Santa Fe fairly regularly ... I did that drive
most recently in November in 47.5 hours! I40 is the most obvious route east ... and it's fine until you get to little rock, arkansas there when a bunch of other interstates merge it gets to be very heavy with large trucks, also by all accounts horrible construction delays in Memphis and Nashville... therefore pick a route that gets you off I40 by little rock or Memphis at the latest! =jim At 10:44 AM 1/19/2006, you wrote: >We're going on a trip from Santa Fe to Orlando FL. > >Obviously flying is the standard way to go, but we're thinking just a >bit about driving .. we generally enjoy car trips if the traffic is >not horrible and the drive is interesting. > >Anyone with experience on driving to Florida (or nearby) from Santa >Fe? We're clueless as to what the driving is like .. but would love >to pick up some good southern cooking along the way! > > -- Owen > >Owen Densmore >http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org > > > >============================================================ >FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe >lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org =================================== Jim Rutt voice: 505-989-1115 |
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In reply to this post by Parks, Raymond
Go to http://www.booksontape.com/ and rent some of the thick books that you
wish you could find time to read, but never do. We greatly enjoyed listening to Taylor Branch's volumes on the history of the Civil Rights Movement (the third volume is just out), Robert Caro's three-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson and last year's best selling bio of Alexander Hamilton. Break those up with a little '50s rock 'n' roll, Willie Nelson and some Wilson Pickett R&B (RIP Wilson, who died Thursday) and you're good to go. -Tom -- On 1/19/06, Parks, Raymond <rcparks at sandia.gov> wrote: > > As the song says - Texas is miles of miles of miles of miles. > > Ray Parks > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > -- ============================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ============================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20060119/6894de41/attachment.htm |
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I prefer www.audible.com, which lets you download books to your MP3
player or burn audio CDs of them. - Martin J T Johnson wrote: > Go to http://www.booksontape.com/ and rent some of the thick books that > you wish you could find time to read, but never do. We greatly enjoyed > listening to Taylor Branch's volumes on the history of the Civil Rights > Movement (the third volume is just out), Robert Caro's three-volume > biography of Lyndon Johnson and last year's best selling bio of > Alexander Hamilton. > > Break those up with a little '50s rock 'n' roll, Willie Nelson and some > Wilson Pickett R&B (RIP Wilson, who died Thursday) and you're good to go. > > -Tom > > -- > On 1/19/06, *Parks, Raymond* <rcparks at sandia.gov > <mailto:rcparks at sandia.gov>> wrote: > > As the song says - Texas is miles of miles of miles of miles. > > Ray Parks > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > > -- > ============================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism > www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com> > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com tom at jtjohnson.com > <mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com> > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ============================================== > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at Mission Cafe > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
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