Finding current road conditions

Just in case there is any interest, NY State Police Troop C which covers the TZ Bridge and surrounding area reports no flooding or other problems that would affect the bridge or the interstates leading up to and away from it.

 

Thanks, roundhouse. Yeah, I agree on the back roads part. Years (decades) ago we took a motorcycle trip from New Hampshire to North Carolina to San Francisco to Seattle and back again. Almost all of the trip going out to SF and up to Seattle was on back roads and it was great. Ran low on time and had to take the interstates coming back and it wasn't as much fun.

As for speed traps, not especially worried about them... my motorhome is a Winnebago Warrior / Toyota V6 that can barely get out of its own way and spends most of its time at 60-65 mph max, so not much of an opportunity to speed.

I also use Waze, early and often, been using it for a few years and it has been very helpful.

 

We're back from our trip down to TN. Going down we took I-84 to Wilkes Barre and I-81 to TN, coming back we took the TZ Bridge route. Coming back was far, far worse than going down, and to add insult to injury we got stuck in traffic for hours due to some bridge work being done on I-95 in CT. So we took some back roads to I-84 west of Hartford and got stuck in traffic again, due to everyone trying to get around the bridge work on I-95.

We ran into long stretches of interstate where the high speed lane was relatively smooth and the right hand lane was a busted-up mess (do you guys still call those the "hammer lane" and the "granny lane"?). So at those times I drove in the high speed lane as much as I could but that underpowered RV of mine struggles to get over 65 especially on hills so not really suitable for the high speed lane, so I ended up in the busted-up-mess lane much of the time anyway.

I used to fly a Beechcraft Bonanza many years ago, and it sure made life easier to make the trip in 5 hours instead of 2 days... sure do miss that airplane.