How are the roads?
 

The dar family will be traveling to Indianapolis this weekend. Google maps says ~3 hours from here to there. Anyone know if we'll hit a lot of roadwork on I-65 between Chicago and Indianapolis?

Looks pretty clear:

http://www.gcmtravel.com/gcm/constru...ATEWAY.IN.I-65

the IN-10 to IN-2 section is ten miles:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...9&ie=UTF8&z=11

Even though there was a long stretch of roadwork, it turned out not to be an issue. We had to leave at 0-dark-thirty due to the difference in time. (Hoosiers have a problem with DST) So not enough traffic on the road to slow us down.

I did that drive once

Philly to Chicago 1987 before they finished the lights on Wrigley.

That last segment was so boring, we drove it at 95 MPH.

Thank God for books on tape/cd.

BTW much of the midwest is like that. They don't call it flatland for nothing.

Just from Pittsburgh to a third of the way across Colorado. :haha:

Been there, done that. I recommend Simon and Garfunkel, and Paul Simon (esp Graceland). Great for singing along withacross the Hay Plains (about 500km/300miles of straight, flat NOTHING, with a truck-stop/roadhouse about every 120kms). I reckon they've saved my life on long distance drives more than once, just by keeping me awake.

Music works for a while, but there's a whole lotta nothing between Chicago and St. Louis.

IMO, Nothing keeps you going like a good creepy murder mystery. I once listened to "The Hound of the Baskervilles" while driving through lowlands with a dense fog at night. I had no trouble staying alert.

Dar, you went through my old stopping grounds. I grew up in Northwest Indiana - Hobart. I drove the stretch of I-65 between home and Lafayette a lot when I was going to Purdue. I always tried to drive at night, somehow it made trip feel faster.

the roads in New Orleans were built by the Romans. Esp. route 10.

Well sure, you can get those little naps in. :D