Ride to Florida - June 19-21, 2008
These pictures were taken with my Fujifilm Finepix S9000 digital
camera on a ride from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to Orlando, Florida,
from June 19 through 21, 2008. Images are shown at a resolution of
640x480, but many are available cropped from the originals or in half
of original size by clicking on the links after the captions.
There were no real touristy desintations along the way, so these
pictures are primarily from the roads.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
We left Pittsfield around noon to make our first stop, a meeting in
Albany early in the afternoon. We were finally on our way south at
almost 4 PM. We didn't get very far very fast, as we hit a long
construction delay on the Thruway between Exits 21 and 20. Traffic
was stopped for 10 minutes at a time and it took us over an hour to
get through [2 Pictures]. The rest of the
day's (and night's) trip was an easy ride down the Thruway, the Garden
State Parkway, New Jersey Turnpike, I-95, I-495 around the north side
of Washington, and the Virginia 267 toll road. We got into Ashburn,
Virginia, around midnight.
Friday, June 20, 2008
We left our friends' house in
Ashburn [Picture] late in the morning and
decided it was safe to take a different route than good ol' I-95 most
of the way. We started by finding our way to US 15
South [13 Pictures]. We left US 15 for US
17 South in Opal. We took that back to I-95 at
Fredericksburg [12 Pictures], then it was
I-95 to Richmond [6 Pictures]. The new and
different part of the ride came when we left I-95 in Richmond and
worked our way [10 Pictures] to US 360
West [40 Pictures]. We took that as far as
South Boston, then turned south onto US 501
[14 Pictures]. We stayed with US 501
through Durham and Chapel Hill [12
Pictures] until we hit US 1. We stayed on the freeway parts of US
1 [11 Pictures], but then took US 15 and US
501 South again to Laurinburg and right on through to I-95 again at
the NC/SC line [24 Pictures]. From
there, it was a short ride down I-95 to our destination for the night:
Florence.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
On to Orlando. We left the Comfort
Inn [Picture] and drove through
Florence [15 Pictures] on the way out
of town, then on down I-95 [15 Pictures].
We took a little side trip along US 17 between Ridgeland and
Hardeeville [21 Pictures], then back to
I-95 through Georgia [5 Pictures]. In
Florida, we took the new 9A bypass on the east side of Jacksonville
[21 Pictures], then left the crowds of I-95
for a little while for a nice ride down US 1 through
Bunnell [10 Pictures]. Then it was back
to the interstates: I-95 then I-4 [20
Pictures]. We arrived late afternoon at Bryan's Spanish
Cove [Picture], and the Disney week began.
The Disney part of the trip is in
a separate trip report.
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