
Its 120 miles from Cambridge to Oxford.
The journey was just under 4 hours.
The trip back was via another route and still took 3 hours.
Driving induced stress.
The knots between my shoulder blades attest to the insanity of bumper to bumper 70+ mph and stop-start, steering wheel banging frustration.
A sign on the A 14 just outside Cambridge somberly states that in 2006, 285 people died on that little stretch of road.
I was doing 70 and the cars blew by me a foot off each other's bumper like clockwork.
It's amazing that I used to do a 4 hour round trip every day between London and Cambridge.
Its likely I'll be doing the Oxford-Cambridge thing 3 or 4 times a month so I better get used to it.
I was in London on Tuesday and took the train.
That should have been better right?
Well I stood the whole trip both ways. Some of my fellow passengers have paid as much as £3,000 for their season's ticket to stand for and hour and a half each way.
Why do we do this to ourselves?
I live on Midsummers Common in Cambridge and this was what greeted me upon my return from fighting the traffic.



Gotta learn to use it to see the difference. It does make a satisfying deep click when I press the shutter and has a nifty feature allowing me to continuously fire off pictures one after another. That gives me a very "pro photo guy" buzz. The above was my first try with this and I have 30 frames of bemused bovine cud chewing progress.
Cool enough but probably more impressive if I shoot athletes or something.
This weekend I'm taking Jess to Ireland as my parents are there.
Monday, I'm in Prague.
Following week: Madrid and Istanbul.
The week after I'm going to Columbia and Rio......back for a couple of days then Dubai and New Delhi.
Check back for the pics.
In the mean time, do the new poll
Terry
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Have fun in Ireland and say hello to your sister and folks for me.
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