Wingnut
Veteran Member
Well, I made it back from Montreal in one piece. Rode the Goldwing up there on Thursday ... 700 miles. Uneventful trip although I got snarled in Toronto in one of the incessant traffic snarls on the main freeway (401). 14 lanes wide altogether and still get stop and go traffic!.
Loaded up the Goldwing on the trailer, doublechecked everything (especially after the trailer thread in Safety) and got on the road before 9 Am Friday morning. Normal Montreal rush hour traffic aided and abetted by construction.
Got out on the freeway and locked the cruise control at the speed limit (this is a little 4-banger motorhome ... doesn't go fast).
Got passed by every 18 wheeler in North America, I think, and maybe a few Aussies for luck too. Not one doing less than 20 mph faster than me (who was still doing the speed limit). At about the halfway mark - just past Kingston, Ontario, there was a sea of red lights in front of me. All them trucks that'd passed me up plus a whole gang of cars .... as far as the eye could see and many miles beyond that. Took 2 hours to go the 2 miles to the accident scene ... not sure if it was single car or more ... but there was a car on its side covering one lane ... 20 cop cars, hiway crew, 4 fire trucks.
Got outa that mess just in time for my a/c to stop working ... too much idling in the hot sun, I guess.
Got into Toronto 3 hours later than I'd planned ... right at the heart of rush hour (like there's a time there is no rush hour in TO). Witnessed 2 young fellas in hotted up little cars (guess they'd seen that hot rod movie with Van Diesel) zipping by in the "collector lanes" ... passed me at better than 90 ... probably better than 100. Came up on them again 2 miles later ... one had slid backwards into the centre divider, pretty well mashed in the rear 1/2 of the car, the other was in the middle with a huge dent on the side and the roof slightly caved ... likely rolled. Little too much weaving, it looked like.
Then, 2 hours later, just at dusk, I come around a curve and see blue lights all over the place ... another single car - in the ditch on its roof.
Guess it gives the rubber-neckers something to look at ... but my thoughts were more along the lines of ... no wonder our insurance bills are so high, paying for all these "good drivers".
Oh well, at least I had no hassle at the border ... first time coming back into the States that I didn't ...
got home only 16 hours after I left Montreal ... 3 hours later than planned.
Driving is SO much fun these days!
Loaded up the Goldwing on the trailer, doublechecked everything (especially after the trailer thread in Safety) and got on the road before 9 Am Friday morning. Normal Montreal rush hour traffic aided and abetted by construction.
Got out on the freeway and locked the cruise control at the speed limit (this is a little 4-banger motorhome ... doesn't go fast).
Got passed by every 18 wheeler in North America, I think, and maybe a few Aussies for luck too. Not one doing less than 20 mph faster than me (who was still doing the speed limit). At about the halfway mark - just past Kingston, Ontario, there was a sea of red lights in front of me. All them trucks that'd passed me up plus a whole gang of cars .... as far as the eye could see and many miles beyond that. Took 2 hours to go the 2 miles to the accident scene ... not sure if it was single car or more ... but there was a car on its side covering one lane ... 20 cop cars, hiway crew, 4 fire trucks.
Got outa that mess just in time for my a/c to stop working ... too much idling in the hot sun, I guess.
Got into Toronto 3 hours later than I'd planned ... right at the heart of rush hour (like there's a time there is no rush hour in TO). Witnessed 2 young fellas in hotted up little cars (guess they'd seen that hot rod movie with Van Diesel) zipping by in the "collector lanes" ... passed me at better than 90 ... probably better than 100. Came up on them again 2 miles later ... one had slid backwards into the centre divider, pretty well mashed in the rear 1/2 of the car, the other was in the middle with a huge dent on the side and the roof slightly caved ... likely rolled. Little too much weaving, it looked like.
Then, 2 hours later, just at dusk, I come around a curve and see blue lights all over the place ... another single car - in the ditch on its roof.
Guess it gives the rubber-neckers something to look at ... but my thoughts were more along the lines of ... no wonder our insurance bills are so high, paying for all these "good drivers".
Oh well, at least I had no hassle at the border ... first time coming back into the States that I didn't ...
got home only 16 hours after I left Montreal ... 3 hours later than planned.
Driving is SO much fun these days!
