On the Road (Day Five)
Wow, what a day!! I left Lee, Massachusetts, at 7:30 a.m. EDT Saturday morning, beginning a driving marathon that ended at 10:45 p.m. Atlantic Time in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, a distance of 1525 km (948 miles to us in the United States). This is the day’s route: http://mapq.st/qFc8cv Why was I pushing so much? I needed to reach the ferry that would take me to Newfoundland before its scheduled departure at 11:30 p.m. Atlantic Time Saturday. Someone asked how I can drive such distances so fast by myself. It helped that there were a variety of driving situations along the way. From Massachusetts into New Hampshire, the speeds ran between 85 and 90+ mph with rapid multi-lane changes. I was grateful to learn that my reaction time had not been adversely affected by six years of living in Iowa. The road through that part of the Appalachians was…
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