JB in so cal
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We left Sunday at 9:30 and took 6:10 to get home to South oc. Thinking desert storm worse. Leave at 5:00 PM and should be 5 hours home.
is that a normal time frame? Understand for accidentsLeft At 10 AM on Sunday, via the 40. Was home in South OC at 3:05 with a stop in Barstow for lunch. Stopped at Loves at the 40 to fill up with gas. Lost 25 mins due to traffic.
Leaving after lunch sucks. We try to leave after an early dinner on Sunday, generally before 6. If there is not an accident in Cajon, it takes 4.5-5 hours. We are still hitting the tail end of Cajon/Vegas traffic at that time.
If there is no traffic, I can set the cruise control at 78-80 and be there in less than 4 hours if I don’t stop.
is that a normal time frame? Understand for accidents
It will now progressively get worse every weekendis that a normal time frame? Understand for accidents
110 LOL pulling boat ?Leaving havasu to OC I find is better on the 40. Even on a bad day the cajon moves a hell of a lot faster than the 10 in morongo whitewater area. Going to havasu I feel the 10 is better on a Friday night.
Keep in mind I’m the guy that speeds on rice road and sets my cruise control at 110
No that’s usually around 70-75. Not a complete idiot110 LOL pulling boat ?
When was the last Sunday this happened?Leave LHC at 09:00 on Sunday....home in south OC by 2. Via the 40/15/91/241 *no traffic delays, 2 stops for gas one includes lunch sometimes.
EVERY Sunday in the Vegas paper online it’s always a 12 mile backup on the 15....I could never have the patience to do Cajon pass on a weekend anymore....used to do it every weekend years ago.Yea. At night, aside from a big accident, Cajon is the only spot I hit any traffic. Some weekends it is worse than others and you crawl down the hill for no reason, even at 8-9 PM. Other times you roll through at 15-20 MPH and it’s not so bad.
I have not left Havasu at 10AM for awhile. I know traffic is worst around 5-6PM through Cajon though.
When was the last Sunday this happened?
Leaving@ 3:30 sucks for sure. 2:30 and hustling is about the latest I try to head out of town now, with 11:30-12:30 being the latest time to leave with little to no traffic.last September was the last time I did it.. most trips now are Thursday to Tuesday ... depending on information I gets from chp and google ... I typically go and return 15/40 .... leaving Thursday at 3:30pm sucks most of the time... but leaving Havasu on Tuesday at 8:00am is really nice !!!
HomoIf you quit stopping at all the truck stops to blow dudes you can cut some time off the trip
We take the 40/15 and have found the best times to be before 8am or after 6pm. We typically do the after 6pm so we can enjoy a short day on the lake. Our drive is 247 miles door to door and is usually 4-4.5 hours with the occasional 5+ hours. We've made the drive 40+ times over the last year and have tried leaving at all different times, including the 3AM Monday. Our most consistent result with the benefit of some lake time is leaving between 6-7pm.
Geez ... I'm glad someone brought this up ... I live in OC and go back and forth to my vacation home in Havasu.
I am not kidding ... that nice 4 1/2, 5 hour trip home is no more. Its more like 6 ... yeah I know ... I can hear them now " oh ... what ? we get home easily all the time with never a problem " ... NOPE ... You have to plan everything around the constant traffic back ups. For the past year ... every trip except for one I sat in at least 30 to 45 minutes stopped or going like 5mph somewhere along the drive ... and it's getting worse ... the long drive is fine but the traffic congestion in so many places now sucks ... trying to get WAZE to give you a heads up is a joke ... last weekend ... I left Havasu at 6:30am Sunday morning .. took the 40 ... made it all the way to the 15 - 91 interchange where everything was stopped added another 35 to 45 minutes , shoulda taken the 215 to Tollroad ... also stay off of 60 westbound ... goes into 1 lane that will add 40 minutes easily ... I've even changed up to leaving on a Monday ... but ya gotta time that to the westbound 91 traffic where you'll sit for an hour or so with all the people trying to get to LA or OC from the IE. I left Saturday night at 5pm about a month ago ...took the 10 ... got to Banning ... like at around 8:30pm stopped ... all the way to the 60 /10 interchange ... anyway ... I'm just ranting ... but coming home has turned into such a downer ... and no matter how hard you try to get it figured out ... I just cant win ... there are just too many people on the road in CA. I probably need a Prozac and a large Rum and Coke.
Yep...I did listen and it wasnt bad until we hit the 10You know, if you want the best advice, Google Maps your way home (or out there too). I know how to get to Havasu and home, but Google Maps will always try and route you around the worst of it. Google will even interrupt your route to tell you if a faster way becomes available.
Though you have to make your own decisions on Google's re-routing. Saves 5 minutes? Skip. Saves 20-30 minutes, yes please. Also depends if I'm towing or not and how much of a hassle that would be, or if I want to subject the boat trailer to shitty roads.
This past weekend was really crappy going Rice and the 10. Google wanted me to go 29 Palms but I ignored it because I don't really like that way, but I wish I had listened.
Damn....drop that hammer Ricky Bobby!!We take the 40 and leave around 9am. Home by 1 to Corona. We stop for lunch in Barstow.
We need a Gulfstream LOL
The traffic is only getting worse. We plan on moving to the OC but the drive times I’m reading about are insane.
I wish they did flights again, amazing to get there in 45 minutes or so.