BRUNSWICK, Ohio – I’m considering creating a couple of new T-shirts. After a family emergency trip to the panhandle of Florida, I think, “I survived Route 65” would be the first one. “It’s hotter in Cleveland than Florida” would be another.
Perhaps some of the businesses we passed in small Alabama/Tennessee/Florida towns would be good. How about the gas station store “Gitty-up-and-Go” as one? If I ever had to do a similar trip, I’d avoid Interstate 65 even if it meant losing time and adding mileage. There were accidents everywhere, many blocking the highway and most involving semis.
After stopping for what seemed a very long time during one of these episodes (and not knowing what was going on except for the “crash” mark on our GPS, we slowly moved past an accident that I initially thought was a mobile home in shreds – like the ones you see when a tornado has hit a mobile home park. The cab of the truck seemed OK but the trailer was shredded. Strips of metal were everywhere and the cargo of “Crown Royal” was smashed, except for the part closest to the cab.
I thought with an alcoholic cargo it would make the local news for sure. Among the many things I learned along the route was that when you see “Road Work Ahead” signs, it only applies in Ohio and Florida. We saw absolutely no people working in Kentucky, Tennessee or Alabama.
My daughter, granddaughter and I have decided it is a ruse to get you to go from the posted 70 mph speed to 55 or 65 t.
