Experiencing & Going admin | 06 Aug 2009
Pensacola to Jacksonville, Florida on Interstate 10 – My Groundhog Day Experience!
Do you remember that movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell? The one where he keeps waking up each morning just to repeat the same day over and over again? I make the drive from Pensacola to Jacksonville, Florida two or three times a year and every time I make the drive I feel like I am in my own personal Groundhog Day movie.
For awhile you are driving on a two lane Interstate 10 and you can see the cars driving the opposite direction.
Then your two lanes separate from the other two lanes. These trees are especially important to pay attention to because you will almost always see a highway patrol car behind them!
Then the road opens back up again so that you are driving next to the lanes. Again. And then it splits. Again.
Then you might see a bridge.
The road splits. Again.
You do drive over the Historic Suwanee River. I especially like the music notes on the sign!
Even the exits look the same.
Exit 142
Exit 192
Exit 241
If it is summertime, be prepared for weather that could probably be classified as a hurricane.
But if you wait it out, you will get a beautiful sky.
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on 06 Aug 2009 at 9:23 pm 1.Nancy (Ciao Bambino) said …
Too funny!
on 06 Aug 2009 at 9:42 pm 2.DeliciousBaby said …
I can almost feel myself drifting off to sleep just looking at all that sameness
on 07 Aug 2009 at 5:47 am 3.Lucia said …
Having made that drive many, many times it seemed all too familiar….very funny post!
on 07 Aug 2009 at 6:20 am 4.Amy @ The Q Family said …
This is a cool post. Funny that looking at your pictures I thought about my trip down from Atlanta to Orlando..
I have the same feeling on I-75 from Atlanta to Orlando.
I think it’s something in FL that they tend to be so cookie cutter.
on 07 Aug 2009 at 7:39 am 5.Wanderluster said …
Very funny indeed. It reminds me of driving across Texas – never ending!
on 07 Aug 2009 at 8:12 am 6.admin said …
Nancy-:-)
The good thing is that they usually drift to sleep as well!
Debbie-It is difficult coming up with things for the kids to spot in I Spy–only so many times will a 4yo point out the green tree!
Lucia-It is quite a drive isn’t it?!?! And I wanted to thank you for directing me to PitStopsForKids…what a great site. I submitted my review! Thanks!
Amy-I-75 does look the same as well! Now, ATL to I-75 is everchanging if I remember correctly….at least 65 is, which is the way that we go to get to ATL.
Beth-I have driven the Texas drive a few times also…less trees, more dirt!
on 07 Aug 2009 at 8:13 am 7.Tim Marks said …
Hilarious! I love it.
on 07 Aug 2009 at 9:58 am 8.Cate said …
Living in the southern part of this state, I know what you’re saying,and showing. Great photo essay!
on 07 Aug 2009 at 1:23 pm 9.Lora said …
Ah….. so familiar. You said it well!
on 08 Aug 2009 at 7:27 am 10.marina k. villatoro said …
Oh yes, ground hog day. maybe they got their inspiration taking the same route you did:)
on 08 Aug 2009 at 7:58 am 11.Heather Cowper said …
Hope the sleep-making drive was worth it when you got to wherever you were going
on 08 Aug 2009 at 8:29 am 12.Dave and Deb said …
Very funny post. It reminds me a lot of driving here in Canada. I always enjoy crossing into the States because you have so many things to look at. When we go on a road trip here, things are few and far between.
P.S. I love Ground Hog Day. Every time it is on, I can’t help myself and I watch. Too much fun
on 08 Aug 2009 at 6:31 pm 13.Lorraine said …
I do a long drive to my parent’s house several times a year, and know the feeling well. I look forward to an addendum post of the little passengers with the backseat view.
on 09 Aug 2009 at 7:56 am 14.Dominique said …
I think Interstates all over the country look the same…these photos could have easily have been taken along I-75 in Michigan during that 6-hour trek to the Mackinac Bridge during the summer!
Reminds us all why we like the smaller highways instead.
on 10 Aug 2009 at 12:29 am 15.Bridget Smith said …
This is a very fun concept for a post. Sometimes I find the sameness soothing myself. There is definately a part of the I-5 here in Carlsbad that inspires the same sort of reverie.