Showing posts with label driving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label driving. Show all posts

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Back up...Road Trip from Washington D.C. to the Midwest (May 2011)

As I was going through some old photos, I stumbled upon pictures of covered bridges from May 2011 when I flew to D.C. and drove my brother's M3 back to the Midwest.


A few pictures...


Glessner Bridge

Burkholder Bridge

Shanksville, Pennsylvania 911 Memorial (in 2011)


Trostletown Bridge

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The price of gas (diesel) is falling!

Wow. Diesel is down to 8.42dkk per liter. So, a mere $5.61USD per gallon. This is by far the cheapest we have ever paid since arriving in March.

I think the most we paid was in Switzerland. Don't ask. It's depressing.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Driving the Autobahn

We’ve spent the past several months commenting how much we enjoy driving in Germany. The concrete autobahn is smooth, with ample driving space, nice shoulders, and the drivers are some of the best we’ve encountered. They stay in the right lane unless they are going to pass, which they quickly do and then move back over to the right. It’s truly a pleasure.

Until.this.weekend!

Wow. The drive to Brussels was excruciating. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, given that I didn’t even drive! Honestly, the roadway was packed with drivers and so many semis that the efficient passing method didn’t work very well. It added an extra hour to our already long drive to Brussels.

The return trip on Sunday was, once again, a pleasure. We must have hit crazy Friday traffic. The kind of Friday traffic in Chicago that makes you rethink your whole vacation so you can either beat the traffic by leaving early or wait it out and leave late at night.

Up next...pictures from Brussels. Stay tuned.