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I sat in an abandoned field in stinking hot sun over FIVE hours after we packed & were ready to depart waiting with a friend I came with for security to allow our driver/friend back on the farm. She was a newbie and woke with a dead car battery Mon.morning, and after a member of our group jump-started her vehicle, forgot to tell us she was leaving the farm from East Dillon about 8:30 a.m. Otherwise our ride share a 10 year vet Bonnaroovian would have advised her to stay put!!!!!! She wasn't allowed back on the farm for hours. We watched you all leave and when we finally departed at 3 p.m. Only a half dozen vehicles and campers remained. Luckily we had no traffic until Chattanooga. We arrived in Maryland exhausted at 5:30 a.m. Tues. I'm sunburned but not too severely. So glad I slept all day and no work this week!
"I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is just like a good meal. I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else." - Hota Kotb
Welcome back Bonz, but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal.
He was nice and have me alternate directions that he assured me were quicker. So he sent me to NY by way of GA.
I always drive through GA on my way to/from the farm.
Yep, this. The fastest way to Manchester from the Northeast involves traveling through GA for about 5 minutes right outside of Chattanooga, so it sounds like the guy gave good directions.
I always drive through GA on my way to/from the farm.
Yep, this. The fastest way to Manchester from the Northeast involves traveling through GA for about 5 minutes right outside of Chattanooga, so it sounds like the guy gave good directions.
There was a quicker alternate route that left straight out of Manchester that I would have preferred. I'm sure that the Chattanooga route was quicker than going through Nashville but in my general frustration at that point I was not in the mood to be welcomed to Georgia.
Yep, this. The fastest way to Manchester from the Northeast involves traveling through GA for about 5 minutes right outside of Chattanooga, so it sounds like the guy gave good directions.
There was a quicker alternate route that left straight out of Manchester that I would have preferred. I'm sure that the Chattanooga route was quicker than going through Nashville but in my general frustration at that point I was not in the mood to be welcomed to Georgia.
That back route is a small local highway that is almost always backed up with traffic after roo. On paper you save something like 10-15 minutes, but in reality it would've taken you longer. I understand your frustrations though, and realize this information is of little relief now.
Yes, they were enforcing it. After my for hour wait to exit the festival, the ramp my GPS told me to take was blocked off for through traffic only. Given that all of the volume was sent in that direction, it would make sense that they wouldn't want a while bunch of people merging and changing lanes.
So I went the fifteen or so miles to the first exit that we could exit and turn around from. Drove back in the very sparse traffic headed the opposite direction to my ramp. Also closed from that direction. Tried to talk the officer into letting me exit because it cut an hour off of my drive. No dice.
He was nice and have me alternate directions that he assured me were quicker. So he sent me to NY by way of GA.
Final total: tried to leave at 8:30 AM CST. Left the farm at 12:30 PM CST. Got home at 6:45 AM EST. That was a long effing day.
Well, that is totally ridiculous. We were literally the only vehicle leaving and had to go through 45 minutes of unnecessary backtracking. Boo.
I didn't have to backtrack at all?? I left the farm by 6am and took the ramp right onto the 24 right where exit 111(or 112) was? Hmm..
Yeah, it seems like the problem is - hopefully - isolated to this year. Didn't have a problem the previous ten years.
On Twitter I was hearing that it was the state police's call to shut down exiting traffic. There were no known accidents on the interstate.
Hopefully next year the organizers will have staff dedicated to traffic flow inside the farm to prevent the rude and counter-productive line-jumping that was going on. My road started out as one organized lane. An hour or two in and we had four lanes all stopped bumper to bumper trying to get into the stagnant intersection. >:-(
The fact that the crews there for tear down were annoyed that we were blocking their way was icing on the cake. Like we didn't want to be moving.
We left at 5 am Monday morning and were just about the only vehicle leaving at that time. Can someone tell me if the police actually enforce taking the completely ridiculous backtracking for miles upon miles to I-24 or could I have ignored the signs and actually drove through Manchester to the I-24 exit. The backtracking alone added nearly 45 minutes to or trip home.
It's the same ridiculous backtrack that you have to do when you arrive from the north on I-24. You get routed all the way down to Exit 127 before you can turn. It's an extra 30+ miles.
I didn't have to backtrack at all?? I left the farm by 6am and took the ramp right onto the 24 right where exit 111(or 112) was? Hmm..
We exited out Bushy Branch road I believe. Did you ignore the signs or were there no signs present the way you went?
Yupp, that's where we exited as well, down Bushy Branch, then down Ragsdale, almost right to the 111 ramp, went right onto the 24 from there. There were a bunch of cops on the corner of Ragsdale and McMinnville, right across where the ramp was.. they came over to our car, I rolled down the window, and he just had have a safe trip and I was on my way. Left my campsite at 6:00, was on the highway by 6:15.
There were no signs telling me to do otherwise.
I guess I was lucky.. considering I had a 15 hour drive to follow, I'm really glad I didn't have to tack an extra hour or so onto that.
but I do not find it strange that your presence being requested in the Orgy thread and then you showing up, like it was the quacking Bonzai Bat Signal. 
