On 5 Jan 2007 15:31:39 -0800, larry_scholnick@yahoo.com wrote:
>Hatunen wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>Agreed, Barstow is not on the most direct path, so I looked at a mapped
>time/mileage comparison with (vs. without) Needles as an intermediate
>stop (chosen to force Barstow, I-40, and US-95). It's 47 miles and
>about an hour and a half longer, measured from I-5.
>
>Trying to go through L.A. during rush hour can easily cost you more
>than the hour and a half. The next time you hear a traffic report that
>says that the G.vine is closed due to a jack-knifed truck, try the
>desert alternative.
If that happens I will. Not happened so far, though.
We're going from Tucson to the Bay Area next Thrusday; my concern
in January is that no storms hit Newhall and that area.
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