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Personal Narrative: A Personal Experience Of Driving

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Day 1 Saturday June 4, 2016 - Huntington WV to Sweet Spring, MO - 630 miles This was a long day of driving. Left home at 7 a.m. and arrived at Sweet Springs, Missouri, at 7 p.m. Not pleasant driving either. Encountered drizzle and some heavy rain along the way and a traffic accident that cost us a half hour. We switched drivers every two hours. Driving through St. Louis was the worst, but we found a split from I-64 to I-70 even before we’d crossed the Mississippi. We swear it wasn’t there before. Used to have to stay on I-64 through downtown. It was nice to see the Arch and the old bridge up close, but it was tense driving, and if you weren’t quick you’d end up in the wrong lane and find yourself on a branch of I-64 that looped around out of the way. But even on Saturday the four-lane highway was really crowded. We longed for the wide open spaces and nearly deserted roads of the West. …show more content…

I-Exit is our favorite. It only works on interstates (not even in rest areas), but it lists everything available at each exit up ahead -- food, gas, hotels -- and even shows upcoming rest areas. It shows how far a restaurant is from the exit and which way to turn at the end of the ramp and the price of gas at each station. Trip Advisor is another favorite because it rates each restaurant and hotel based on reviews, which we’ve found to be pretty accurate. Sometimes we double-check it with Yelp. But we used Google the

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