the drive / paragiraffe is a blog by maura

Today my normally three-hour trip from Franklin, TN, to Knoxville, TN, took five hours. Traffic was backed up on I-40 pretty much from Crossville to where I-75 merges in (around fifty miles). And, in typical southern fashion, there is no apparent explanation for the delay.

It was as much fun as it sounds like. During most of the standstill/coasting at less than five miles an hour, Emma and I watched television she had saved on her laptop (Veronica Mars, The Colbert Report, How I Met Your Mother). Next time I make the drive, I’m bringing rations.

jason / 14 nov 2005 / 12:13 a.m.

i hate traffic.

Jason / 14 nov 2005 / 8:35 a.m.

Ah, Franklin, TN, I miss that place. I lived there for a year after college and before I moved to Indy to get married. Although I didn’t do it frequently, I was never a big fan of the drive to Knoxville.

Thad / 14 nov 2005 / 1:03 p.m.

“in typical southern fashion, there is no apparent explanation for the delay”

I assure you, this is not a phenominon limited to the South!

Interstate 84 through Waterbury, CT can bite me!