Cross Country Road Trip - Day 1
Brian and I embarked on a cross country road trip 2 weekends ago. Across to Galway, and back to Dublin again. Sounds brutal, but Ireland is only 129 miles wide where we crossed! To be fair, it used to be a brutal journey, before they built the M6 Motorway , which was completed in late 2009. Before this 2-lane motorway, with center barricade, was built, the only way to drive across the country was on smaller highways. I'm not sure what the those highways were like, but if it's anything like the other ones we've been on in Ireland, I can only imagine how long it would take. Not to mention how stressful of a drive it would be on small winding roads with ridiculously high speed limits. I've heard it took more than double the time it takes now. Honestly, I don't ever want to know, the M6 was nice, easy and fast, with a speed limit of 75 mph. And the scenery, how beautiful. We really felt like we were in Ireland. Road shot -...