A sorority sister of Ruthi’s had commented that their trips South in the winter are always challenged by the “bumper-to-bumper” traffic on Interstate 65. We though she was referring to the section in Indiana. We had originally planned on going through Indiana to see the varied architecture in Columbus, Indiana at the time of the discussion. Our plans changed due to the Interstate 64 bridge closure in Louisville, KY. With double the traffic on another old bridge we decided it was more prudent (read safe here) to cross the Ohio river from Illinois to Kentucky – which we did.
But back to the “bumper-to-bumper” comment - we thought initially it was the flow over from Chicago, we began to notice all of the semis going both ways hauling who knows what in which direction. Then, more and more automobile traffic on the road began to pass us (of course the only drivers near the posted speed limit). Surprising enough here it is the start of October and there were more RVs going North than South most of the way to our destination in South Alabama.
Lynda had hit it on the head it was “bumper-to-bumper” on Interstate 65 North and South. This is interesting to us. We have been on a lot of the interstates across the 43 states we have hit so far. While around cities the traffic does pick up, mostly there aren’t any situations that would reflect the “bumper-to-bumper” label until we did Interstate 65. Also, we had a hawk/falcon/eagle following us down the road. Honestly, it was probably a number of them but it did appear to be our own bird of the trip.
