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My top driving tip for visiting Central Florida?
Don't.
In the same way that there are tips for improving lap times at certain tracks, what are some tips that everyone should know before they visit your hometown?
Perhaps there’s a stretch of highway that should be avoided at all cost, or maybe there are a few stoplights that just had some cameras installed. Whatever the case is, what should we know before we drive in your neck of the woods?
My top driving tip for visiting Central Florida?
Don't.
Detroit: Go faster. Seriously. 85 mph is what it takes on the freeways here. and GTFOO the left lane.
Universal driving rules:
Drive as fast as most around you.
Miss your exit? So what there is another one down the road to turn around on.
Preplan where you are going.
Heads up look out your windows and not just your E36 M3ty bug covered windshield.
When I was a young man (1985) some old southern redneck dude commented to my girlfriend/wife and I when I mentioned we liked to go downtown Chicago for events and restaurants.
"I wouldn't go to Chicago unless I was packing a gun".
Today I might suggest that.
My best advice for getting through Atlanta:
- Head south on I-75 till you get to Florida.
- Head west on I-10 till you get to Alabama.
- Head north on I-65 till you get to Birmingham.
- Head East on I-59 till you get to Tennessee.
- Head north on I-75 and continue your journey without having to deal with Atlanta traffic!
DO NOT STOP IN THE ROAD.
My home town is River Ridge, La. Its right next to New Orleans.
My advice is don't drive in New Orleans. If the carjackers don't get you the potholes will.
My hometown of Hamilton, Ohio
1. Don't make eye contact
2. Be vigilant for random druggies stumbling out into traffic at any time of day.
3. If you hear a car backfiring it's actually gunshots, duck and get the hell out of there.
4. Stop by Goldstar chili on your way out of town, ignore that garbage ass skyline chili unless you like the garbage people it attracts and having the runs.
Metro Cleveland:
W 25th St never becomes E 25th St
In most cities, if you found yourself on W25th St and you drove in the correct direction long enough, it would eventually become E25th St. But, not in Metro Cleveland and it's numbering system from the early 1900's...
In central downtown Cleveland the streets are named after the Great Lakes. One is Ontario Street where the O is also a zero. So, if you are on W25th St you are 25 blocks west of Ontario St or zero. There is also a E25th St which is 25 blocks to the east. This means that W25th is 50 blocks away from E25th.
As this system travels outside the Cleveland City limits, some suburbs adopted the system and some did not so the number system may end and then start back up. The system extends into the 200's to the west and to the 300's to the east.
If you were looking for the main entrance to The Cleveland Clinic which is on E95th and you were actually on W95th, you would be 190 blocks away from your intended destination or generally a 20 minute drive away.
Windows up, lock doors, stare straight ahead...
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