Got home a little after 2000 last night. Learned something new about Maps. Mitzi didn't like any of the proposed routes back home from Pell City. The fastest one took us to Atlanta and she was adamant she didn't want to do that. The other two were each an hour longer, which didn't appeal to me.

She had an idea of how she wanted to go, so she asked for a route to Tifton, Georgia, knowing then she could get onto 75 and then onto 10 for the rest of the ride home.

That route to Tifton was over half the distance, and the total travel time was only a little longer than the Atlanta route, I think it was less than half an hour longer. What we weren't sure about was what kind of roads we'd be on. They were all limited access, divided highways for the most part, with lights at certain towns and junctions, but mostly 65mph with little traffic.

Roads were all in good shape, which is more than can be said for I-10 outside of Jax. Weather was fine, with a few light showers here and there. We stopped at a rest stop on 75 and had a picnic dinner.

So if you're unhappy about a particular route, or if you want to avoid the route that everyone else using CarPlay is probably using, pick an intermediate destination ("Add stop"), and then add subsequent ones to get you where you want to go. Might take a little longer, but it might be a more pleasant drive too.

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 06:37 Monday, 6 May 2024