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08/15/2003 Archived Entry: "THE PERILS OF TRAVEL"

THE PERILS OF TRAVEL

My granddaughter left Gaithersburg MD over six hours ago to head home. She hasn't even gone 150 miles in that time and she's not even sure where she is...somewhere in PA. She was on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and then traffic just stopped. There was an accident on a bridge at 9:30 this morning, long before she even got on it. Now they have re-routed everyone to a two lane side road and they are just sitting there. She still has to get over a river sometime and doesn't even appear to be heading in the right direction. Her dad figured out most of the problem while searching the internet and is trying to determine her location so she'll know where she is...once she starts moving again. She'll stop at the first opportunity, I'm sure of that. This is one of those times when you just wish you had a GPS in your car....and alternative rest stop facilities. She had planned to make it half way to Kansas tonight, but there isn't a chance of that now. She's just hoping to get out of PA.