Lovely mountain roads...it's why I bought the car in the first place, ~25 miles, takes me ~40 minutes, I can make it in just over 30 minutes with summer tires and driving a little crazy, but I've mellowed out, so it's a rare occasion when I do that. There is actually a much milder road to take, but it's loaded with commuters, and traffic isn't all that good.

Yoshi...this one's for you, after seeing all of your in car pictures over the last couple of years...

I was driving pretty slow the entire commute, so I had plenty of time to take these pictures, I was being very careful.

Album:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4287661731

IMAGESTATION WASN'T ALL THAT HAPPY ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF IMAGES THAT I POSTED UP, I'VE PROVIDED LINKS

Some misc pics:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...2.jpg

The morning traffic

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...0.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...c.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...3.jpg

Still stuck behind the 1 car on the road, as you can see I have a lot of traffic behind me Eventually there were 2 other cars behing me, which is considered a traffic jam on this road

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...1.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...7.jpg

The speed of the commute with the traffic, which is why I was able to take the pictures

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...f.jpg

Vineyards in the Napa Valley:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...6.jpg

Most of the road has these signs:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...b.jpg

Real traffic
http://www.imagestation.com/pi...0.jpg

The view after getting a bagel and a mocha:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...d.jpg

Downtown:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...1.jpg

The one auto parts store, next one that's smaller is ~10 miles away, larger one is ~25 miles away:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...f.jpg

Gas prices in this little town , why I don't buy gas in this town :

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...c.jpg

The building that I work in:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...1.jpg

The view looking out the window at my desk, that's the CEO's car:

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...f.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/pi...1.jpg


Modified by Austin at 2:29 PM 2/20/2004

 

whoa! nice commute

I have to drive 34 miles of boring interstate to get to work

 

mountain roads own

 

I would drive home for lunch everyday just for the drive. My drive is only about 5 miles to work.

 

damn!

beats the hell out of driving in a clogged freeway full of dumb *** drivers!

/rant off

 

Looks like a fun drive to work every morning. Bagel and mocha.. you AMERICAN!

 

Cool post. My drive to work is sorta traffic-free also, but on back country roads passing junkyards and farm fields with no pretty mountains. 93 octane in Wisconsin is ~$1.87-1.93 right now.

 

no outside pics?

my work is 30miles away and too much of a risk to take a nice car like that to my work.

 

VERY nice, my old hometown I used to go to school at PUC and was actually up there this weekend. Now you gotta stop by giuni's across the street and get a sammich

 

that's pretty sweet


I've got that for about a mile, then it's nothing but State Troopers and beaters trying to navigate through potholes on the DC beltway.

 

I drive 9 miles and it takes me 45 minutes. Going home is an hour.

 

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hehe...very few people would recognize the town by the few pictures that I put up. Guini's has some killer food, it's been a month since I've been there. You must have been the car that Iggy saw this weekend then, I was going to get a picture of Taylor's Refresher, but the camera didn't wanto to focus, and it wasn't safe enough to take a picture

 

I was going to take a picture of the road I take (the first mile of my driving is on a fun back country road).

at the end of a road is a deer someone whacked, and I saw three vultures, yes vultures chowing away at it. mmmm (some idiot brought them here a couple years ago and they've been multiplying since).

 

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hehe...very few people would recognize the town by the few pictures that I put up. Guini's has some killer food, it's been a month since I've been there. You must have been the car that Iggy saw this weekend then, I was going to get a picture of Taylor's Refresher, but the camera didn't wanto to focus, and it wasn't safe enough to take a picture </TD></TR></TABLE>

had no idea you were out in good ole st. helena. I actually saw a PY itr in st helena this past weekend, sorry to say i drove up north in my roommates BEASTLY 90 subaru legacy And btw, all i did was eat while i was up there, rutherford's, mustards, taylor's refreshers (OF COURSE), giuni's TWICE, and hit up the pier in SF and ate 2 whole crabs. Next time i'm up there ausmith, i'll definately hit you up and we can go grab a few sammiches

 

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I have to drive 34 miles of boring interstate to get to work </TD></TR></TABLE>

i gotta drive 25 during dc rush hour ughh

 

nice drive and a quaint little town.. you're lucky!

 

wow, I wish I were in your shoes.

 

Actually it's spelled Giugni's.

Sweet pics Austin! I like how you give St. Helena a micro town look. I'll take some pics when I go home.


Iggy: who feels like he live out in the boon docks.

 

thanks for the pix austin. j00v told me a few times about your com00t but now I can finally visualize it

yshi - whose fellow com00terz around him drive H2s, porsches, MBs and Bimmaz now

 

Make me jealous, except for the fact i don't commute

 

Wow, thats the bay area (is it considered in the bay area?) I'm not used to. I'm accustomed to suburbia hell and the concrete jungle.

You must live a peaceful life Austin with the looks of that environment.

 

That is indeed a nice drive in

My commute is 26 miles each way. Two-lane for the first stretch, wave to the cows, then about eight miles down "Garner Parkway." 45 zone, but people mix it up between 30 and 60

Then it's a short burst of speed on the interstate - usually about 75-80 until my exit. Unless someone's changing a tire, then we all have to stop and watch. Quick weave through a residential neighborhood and a duck into the back entrance.

Takes me 35 minutes under ideal conditions. Has taken as long as an hour 35 though

 

Brat

 

mountain driving everyday would be nice...i have to deal with city and interstate traffic everyday

 

Damn, if it wasn't for the CA license plates on the other cars I'd have certainly thought you were somewhere in the woods of the southeast. That's certainly not the Cali I'm used to seeing.

Great pics anyway!