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<\/a> Since this was a public post, the fun time with my friends won’t be part of it.<\/p>\n Fast forward to March 24, since it wasn’t that much a long journey from Durham to Washington DC, I got up reasonably late, said goodbye to my friends, and left for home at noon.<\/p>\n That’s the end of my 11-day, 2881-mile roadtrip. Lots of fond memories. Distance-wise, I don’t think it’s a record that I will break easily.<\/p>\n END<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last two days of my Florida spring break trip, I would be driving back from Jacksonville. Despite I spent the majority of these two days on the road, which weren’t the most interesting material, I still made… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,2],"tags":[425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4568,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/br>Residential Community<\/br>Where my overnight Airbnb was located.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Roads in Suburb Jacksonville<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 95<\/br>Initially there was some traffic, not enough to slow down the pace of driving.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 95<\/br>As I was passing Savannah into South Carolina, there was some traffic on the northbound direction of I95.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a> <\/a><\/br>Interstate 95<\/br>There was an accident on southbound direction of I95, which caused miles of traffic backup. I thought the minor slowdown on my northbound direction was caused by drivers slowing down to spectate the accident, resulting in a phantom traffic jam.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Crossing Lake Marion<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 95<\/br>Mostly smooth sailing through beautiful forests in North Carolina.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 40<\/br>There was some traffic building up approaching the city of Raleigh.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 85<\/br>Some roadwork was the only source of slowdown on Interstate 85. Weirdly, I thought the part of road that these cones blocked off was perfectly fine?<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 85<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 95<\/br>Traffic was building up passing Richmond. Looking at this, maybe the I295 detour I took on my way to Florida was a blessing in disguise?<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a><\/br>Passing Downtown Richmond<\/br>Interstate 95 passed right through downtown Richmond, which accounted for this increased traffic.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Interstate 95<\/br>There was heavy traffic on the northbound direction of I95 leading away from Richmond. I tried taking naps in a nearby truck stop to wait it out, to no avail. So I decided to turn off the interstate, and took the country route of VA301 instead.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a> <\/a><\/br>Country Road<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a> <\/a><\/br>Route 301<\/br>Before passing Bowling Green, Route 301 was a two-lane road with few traffic, lined with soaring trees and farmland.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a> <\/a><\/br>Route 301<\/br>Probably since it\u2019s gaining latitude, there were fewer and fewer leaves on trees as I approached Maryland.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Harry W Nice Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br>Route 301<\/br>There was an accident near Waldorf, causing some slowdown.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/br><\/a> <\/a><\/br>Interstate 495<\/br>Home stretch. Sunday afternoon rush hour traffic around Washington DC, which wasn\u2019t too bad.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n