Roadguy’s friend Karen, a former Minnesotan, is something of a road-trip goddess — a few years back, she drove solo from the Twin Cities to Alaska, where she now lives and is running a bed and breakfast. She read my post about our looming Crosstown construction woes and offered a little perspective:

“Didja hear that a bridge 60 miles north of me washed out? That made the detour to Denali National Park 342 miles longer than the original 180 miles from here — you had to head out towards the Yukon border to catch the other highway that goes to Fairbanks, drive north six hours, then drive south four hours again on the flood-ravaged road. I bet despite the perennial MnDOT presence on the Crosstown and 35W, none of those detours take you THAT far out of the way.”

She makes a fine point — I guess we’ll just need to buck up next construction season. Or, as LibraryGirl suggested, stock up on audio books.

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