highway 83

there's a two-lane road that goes from Parker Colorado to Colorado springs. it's a nice little road. there's some pine trees on it. there's a lot of open Fields on it. there's some beautiful views of the mountains on it. there's a couple of stoplights but for the most part it runs about 65 miles an hour. the problem is that there are a whole bunch of people trying to drive on this two-lane road these days. it turns out they pretty much drive in clumps. this is because people get backed up at the stop lights and then drive along all in little groups. but I tried an interesting experiment today to see if it would be possible to drive much faster than 65 miles an hour and not stay stuck in clumps the whole time. now you don't get there any faster but you do get to drive faster when you're driving. and my current thought on the subject of driving is that it's more fun to drive faster than slower. so here's the plan. it worked pretty well. when you stop at a stoplight and you're in a long line of cars pull over to the side of the road at some point where you can get out of traffic and let all the cars go by you. go through the stoplight but then pull over and let those cars drive off into the distance. wait for the stop light to turn red. there will be a fairly long Gap in the traffic because a whole bunch of cars are by piling up behind the red light. when the light turns green jump out in front of all that traffic and put your foot on the floor. you can zip right up to 75 or 80 miles an hour and generally the people behind you are not willing to drive that fast so you'll be zipping off down that little two-lane road all by yourself. now the trip is about 40 miles. so generally if you're driving that fast you're going to catch up to the cars that are in front of you. when you do just pull over and sit on the side of the road for a while when there's a long Gap in the traffic then jump back on the road and speed back up to 75 to 80 miles an hour. now obviously this won't work on heavily congested roads where there's non-stop traffic and lots of traffic entering from side roads and all kinds of traffic and heavy trucks entering and slowing down causing all kinds of delays in traffic. but in the particular situation of highway 83 it worked great.

when I get to heaven I'm going to tell Jesus all about it.













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