Gas Has Gone Way Up (Knoxville, Jackson: construction, vs, statistics)

[Tinman313]

Originally Posted by beachbette

Tinman....that's great news for us!!!

Hopefully it will stay low until we head out of FL in 3 weeks!! We have figured that Titusville will be our first overnight stay as we move from the Keys to Knoxville!!!!! We can only handle about 350 miles per day! So, please keep those gas prices low so we can fill up before we head out the next day!

Our next overnight stay will be around Macon, GA.....hope their prices are low too.....but then, just about anywhere is lower than the Keys!!

They way I go.....FYI: Jacksonville,FL -- Tifton,GA 2.5 hour & 170 mile.
I-95N (275 around Jax) -I-10W -I-75N. I drive at night cooler no sun.Lots of trucks from Fl boarder north I-75 at night.They run in packs...

Tifton,GA -- Chattanooga,TN I-75 4 hour & 300 mile.

I try too hit Atlanta,GA before 4:30am on week days then you just zip threw, Any thing after 5 am till 9am it's a mad house I-75 main not truck route 275. Bumper to Bumper from 6am-8am week days down town Atlanta. Week Ends most people leave the city around 6am heading too the hills. Return Sunday starting around 2 in the afternoon heading back into Atlanta.... Safe trip Tinman I'm right behind you

[JoshB]

$3.15 for Regular Unleaded, $3.85 for Diesel here in Portage, WI.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by Tinman313

They way I go.....FYI: Jacksonville,FL -- Tifton,GA 2.5 hour & 170 mile.
I-95N (275 around Jax) -I-10W -I-75N. I drive at night cooler no sun.Lots of trucks from Fl boarder north I-75 at night.They run in packs...

Tifton,GA -- Chattanooga,TN I-75 4 hour & 300 mile.

I try too hit Atlanta,GA before 4:30am on week days then you just zip threw, Any thing after 5 am till 9am it's a mad house I-75 main not truck route 275. Bumper to Bumper from 6am-8am week days down town Atlanta. Week Ends most people leave the city around 6am heading too the hills. Return Sunday starting around 2 in the afternoon heading back into Atlanta.... Safe trip Tinman I'm right behind you

If you're ever going northeast from Atlanta and need a bite to eat (or a bottle of aspirin), be sure to stop at the Duluth Rexall Grille. It's a drugstore with a cafe . . . owned by my sister-in-law. ;-)

[Tinman313]

Originally Posted by alleycat

If you're ever going northeast from Atlanta and need a bite to eat (or a bottle of aspirin), be sure to stop at the Duluth Rexall Grille. It's a drugstore with a cafe . . . owned by my sister-in-law. ;-)

I'm a going left only..... heading TN. I looked at NE GA No thanks. I remember the ole Rexall.... Thanks

[Lucky Eddy]

Gas was $3.26 today. Guess its time to stay home more and work on the honey-do lists.

[gemkeeper]

Originally Posted by beachbette

Tinman....that's great news for us!!!

Hopefully it will stay low until we head out of FL in 3 weeks!! We have figured that Titusville will be our first overnight stay as we move from the Keys to Knoxville!!!!! We can only handle about 350 miles per day! So, please keep those gas prices low so we can fill up before we head out the next day!

Our next overnight stay will be around Macon, GA.....hope their prices are low too.....but then, just about anywhere is lower than the Keys!!

Beachbette, just try to plan your overnight Macon stay so that you are not in the Atlanta area (25 mi. south of or 50 north of between 5:30 AM and 6:30 PM!!! It is a nightmare!

If we have a flight out of Atlanta at 9 or 10 AM, we always drive down the night before and stay at one of the motels close to the airport. Otherwise, we would have to be on the road by 4 AM for our 1 1/2 hr. drive. If not, it could be a 4 hr. drive!! It's only 200 miles from Macon to Chattanooga, but it is a direct route up 75. Plan carefully.

[Suzanne1945]

Beachbette
Have you considered the Turnpike to 75? I'm not sure of mileage difference between taking 95 and 10, but it would seem to me that the Tpke to 75 is a more direct route--unless you have family or some other reason for staying in Titusville.

Good luck with your trip. Please let us know the good and the bad with your move. We could use some pointers before we make that last trip to TN from Central FL.

[bebette]

Originally Posted by Suzanne1945

Beachbette
Have you considered the Turnpike to 75? I'm not sure of mileage difference between taking 95 and 10, but it would seem to me that the Tpke to 75 is a more direct route--unless you have family or some other reason for staying in Titusville.

Good luck with your trip. Please let us know the good and the bad with your move. We could use some pointers before we make that last trip to TN from Central FL.

Suzanne, we've been looking at both routes.....but we were told that if we take the turnpike to 75 that the total amount of tolls would be $40....and since we are driving two vehicles that would be $80 - plus the rising cost of fuel for driving two vehicles 1100 miles! Hubby thought that the difference in going up 95 instead of Turnpike wouldn't be that much mileage wise, but would save alot on tolls!!

We are still open to changing the route though! I have decided to wait until the last week before I make hotel reservations and actually print out our route directions! (We're still living in the 'olden days' without a GPS!! - but it might be our next purchase!!)

The only reason we chose Titusville as a stopping point is because I tried to break the trip up into 350 miles per day!! I am open to any and all suggestions for better routes!!!

[LauraC]

Bette, are you coming across North Carolina on I-40?

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Unrelated, I can tell anyone who is coming down from Maryland that there are zero tolls and the drive is a piece of cake if you plan your trip to either leave on a Sunday morning or get on and off the DC beltway before 6:00A on a weekday. But, do not choose to go through NC on I-40W to get to Tennessee, an awful trip in my opinion. Instead, go DC beltway to 66W (Virginia) to I-81S (Virginia) right into Tennessee. You pick up I-40 in Tennesssee, off of I-81S, to travel through TN if you need to go west once you are here. When you leave I-81 (the longest stretch of the trip) for gasoline (usually right on or near the exit ramp), stop in INeverHeardofItville, not the bigger cities for gasoline.

If you are only visiting, try to travel home on a Sunday, too. The DC Beltway is awful even at 2:00PM on a weekday.

[bebette]

Laura....we won't be going through NC at all. Right now we are planning to head up I-95 from Homestead, FL and pick up I-10 (heading west) in Jacksonville, FL and then pick up I-75 (heading north) into Georgia and we'll just follow I-75 through Georgia and into TN all the way to Knoxville!