On 5 Jan 2007 13:55:31 -0800, larry_scholnick@yahoo.com wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>>
>> These days I do my travelling between the Bay Area and Tucson, so
>> avoiding traffic in San Berdoo and LA is critical. So far we
>> haven't found a good way to avoid I-10 around San Berdoo but we
>> do pick up 210 closer to LA. No way we're going through the
>> Spaghetti Bowl in downtown LA.
>>
>Another, even simpler alternative from Barstow is I-40 across the
>Mojave Desert to Needles, then US-95 south to join I-10 in Blythe, CA,
>just a few miles from the Arizona border.
Barstow is not on the direct path from the Bay Area to Tucson.
The route is basically I-5 to I-10 and then to Tucson. While
other routes sometimes look attractive, they mostly take you so
far out of the way that I-10 through eastern the eastern LA
suburbs and exurbs looks better; we do take 210 from I-5 to as
far on I-10 as it will take us.
>You might also choose to
>take AZ-85 south from Buckeye to Gila Bend in order to avoid Phoenix by
>using I-8.
That's standard for us. But we do usually have enough people,
what with the kids, to use car-pool lanes through Phoenix, so we
only use the Buckeye bypass if it's rush hour.
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