| So, I was driving home from Chicago, where the Interstate speed is a mere 65 mph. Now, with me being accustomed to Arkansas speeds and whatnot, I push my car up to 80 and set the cruise control. I decided to get as many miles as possible out of my gas tank, so, I waited to fill up until about 100 miles outside of the Windy City. At the Lexington exit on I-55, I decide to get on the off-ramp because the needle was on the red line. So, as I'm going up the ramp, I notice a police car sitting behind a little tree on the overpass. I began to worry that he saw me speeding and I just went about my business. As I turned left to go to the gas station, I see that there are 3 more police cars waiting on the on-ramp. I really made nothing of it until I went to get back onto the Interstate. About half of a mile down the road, there were 6 cars on the side of the road. Behind each one of them set an Illinois State Police Car. After seeing this, I laughed because I had gotten off of the Interstate at just the right moment. It was such a great time. Then, when I reached Springfield, IL, I believe, there was another police car on the side of the road. Now, I had been doing my 75-80 mph again, with the previous incident telling me nothing. I see another car ahead of me, speeding away, so, I figure that I'm in the clear, but, I go ahead and slow down and get into the middle lane, in front of two other cars. The cop eventually caught up with the three cars and he pulled in behind the last one. A few seconds later the cop was pulling over the last car in the bunch and I proceeded to mozy on. I did get kind of worried when I sped through this construction zone, passed a semi, then came out of the whole thing moving really fast, with no one else on the road but me. I guess that all of the cars had gotten stuck behind the truck, but, nothing came of it. The drive from Rose's house to mine only took about 12.5 hours and this was with many, many stops in there. I would assume that one could drive from Fort Smith, AR to Chicago, IL in about 10-11 hours. It was a smooth ride. |
