Retire Where???

[ezdays]

Manhattan isn't usually too horrible, although I always take the train in if I can help it. Weekends, especially holiday weekends are a nightmare. My wife used to drive in and pick me up at work ib the city for our annual trek up to Ralph's old stomping ground upstate in Woodstock/Kingston/New Paltz. I would go through the Holland Tunnel which took forever, but once I got into the tunnel, it was smooth sailing. Traffic in Brooklyn isn't bad either.

When I lived in NJ I remember driving there once. That was back in the 50's and things weren't too bad back then, but I still took a train any other time. Back in the 70's we were back east on vacation and I drove my family through the Holland Tunnel and found us somewhere in Manhattan just trying to get back to the Tunnel. it took over an hour just to turn around. That experience is etched in my mind forever. No matter how bad the traffic is in downtown Los Angeles, it will never compare with that, I still shake when I think about it. :cry:

P.S. --------- Retired in Vernon Hills Illinois, about the same driving fun around Chicago, as the "Distressway" :o

Freeways, expressways, distressways.... it doesn't matter where they are, they're all just one ribbon of parking lot.