You could get arrested by my brother. When does your flight arrive?

Tell him to rememember he'll need TWO pairs of handcuffs.

What does surprise me is that Oregon's Willamette Valley got tagged as the worst. What say you, Brian B.?

Let's see... a 100 mile stretch of I-5 connects the states' 3 biggest cities, one of which, our only true multi-city urban area and only city over 1 million people(Portland), contains well over half of the state's population. Along that corridor, outside of those three cities themselves, I-5 is only TWO lanes in either direction.

Still surprising?

Whoops, just read the link. To correct you AND me at the same time:

The bottleneck listed is not IN the Willamette Valley, it's the stretch of highwa FROM the Valley TO the coast. So the dynamics get even uglier:

There are two routes from Portland over to the coast. Highway 26 and Highway 30 are both 2 lane higways with the occasional passing lane added in. Portland, again, is a city with over a million people, and many of them will be heading for the coast -- Oregonians love the ocean. Many of them will be driving or towing slow RV's and trailers. In addition, Oregon's a big tourist destination, and so you'll have to add out of state visitors to the mix.

So yeah, I can see 30 or 26 making the list, even topping it. the routes from Eugene and Salem to the coast will be ugly too -- similar roads, smaller populations. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that the route I mentioned in my first post doesn't make the cut too.

Will Mrs. Llama and the LLama-ettes be accompanying you on this trip? That kinda dictates the type of establishments I'd recommend.

Nope - hit and run bizness trip. And I assume you're not going to suggest, er, that kind of establishment - in the middle of the afternoon?

Well there is one of those establishments that has a great steak. I'll have to see if I can find the name of it, it's been a couple of years since a customer took me there.
If you have a rental car the drive to St. Petersburg has some decent sights along the way just be sure to take Hwy60 through rocky point island. On rocky point there's a decent restaurant beside the holiday inn.

The Tampa-St. Pete area is the strip club capital of the world! (or at least FL)

I suggest Mons Venus. (so I've heard)

I'm not from Tampa but I just visited recently. There's a real nice mall with some great restaurants right next to the airport. Which reminds me of an interesting story. As I was leaving the mall, I made a wrong turn and I was heading down the wrong street cursing... when I realize that I'm almost directly at the approach end of active runway.... here comes a big ole 747 so close I feel like I could touch the gear. I look again and it says "United States of America" on the side... oh yeah, Bush was supposed to visit that day. Pretty neat.

We're Number One!

We're Number One!

We're Number Three in Unemployment, but thank god the governer is working on that.