Do you take the same way home?

I try to take a different route every evening.
It makes life more interesting.

(I take the same route every morning, though, so I can judge the time needed to get to work on time.)

Some people have never gone even one street over, and have no idea what’s in this town even though they’ve been here years longer than me.

I always take the same route to work every morning and it takes exactly eight minutes to arrive. In the evenings I vary my route depending on the train that comes through town, if it is blocking my normal route then I will drive completely around town and get stuck in the five o’clock traffic, it them takes me about 15-20 minutes to get home.

Yeah, I do, because I had to hunt around for the quickest way home. And since I take the train, there’a limited number of routes for me to take from there.

Even though I live only minutes away from work, I try to go differnt ways (albeit limited) to and from work each day just to be different and to break the monotony, especially if I walk.

I take the same way home unless a good song is on the radio and then I just drive aimlessly around the neighborhood like a fool.

There are no other practical routes home. The others would take me WAY out of my way…no wait, there’s one other way that I take home, but only if I have to do shopping on the way home. Then it makes sense to go that other way, which is way, way, out of the way. Was that way too complicated? I’m sure there’s another way to say which way I go home… :smiley:

Different route unless I’m in a hurry. Of course if I’m not in a hurry, there’s no telling if I’ll even make it home. I’ve driven hours out of the way before. Driving’s fun :slight_smile:

Yes.

I’ve been experimenting lately. I just started a new job two weeks ago and I’ve been trying different routes to see which one is the fastest. I think I have it figured out and its sure nice not to be leaving home at 6:30 in the morning anymore.

I (like Canadian Sue) live in a city with a river running through it. I have to cross the river everyday, so there are limited options. I have two ways to get home, and one is shorter than the other. Once I have left the school, or home, I have to decide immediately which route to take, since in both cases, they start off in totally opposite directions. Due to traffic congestion, I have tried in vain to find another route home once I’ve left the school, and there isn’t one! Unless I want to abandon my car and try swimming…

I’m not terribly adventurous driving anyway. I don’t like driving to begin with, and my astigmitism is so bad that I can’t read signs well until I’m fairly close to them (yes, with my contacts in), so I generally stick to the same old thing all the time, no matter where I’m going. Everytime I vary my route, I usually wind up lost. Or hitting another bloody traffic circle, which I hate driving.

I usually take the same route to work and home again. I am dependant on buses and stuff. But, whenever we travel for long weekends we have to go through or around Toronto. The traffic is NUTS and so we experiment with different routes for the sack of time saving. We have however really liked going through all the different areas and seeing different things. And it beats spending hours on the 400 looking at other people bored of being in the car.

I drive to a commuter train station and ride the train downtown to work, and parking your car at a particular station pretty much guarantees that you’re going to go home by the same train line to the same station. :slight_smile: And while I occasionally use a different train station, I have a monthly tag for the one I use most of the time, so it wouldn’t make sense to pay to park at some other station. Driving between the train station and my house? What with the river, the county forest preserve around it, and the cemeteries, there aren’t that many alternate routes.

And as to missing variety, so what? :slight_smile: When I’m driving, I’m paying attention to the other cars, and when I’m on the train, I’m reading the newspaper or some magazine.

Variety! Who doesn’t love the surprises hiding around the next curve? Being in a rural area, these can range from high water on the road, limbs/trees across it, or double-wide homes trying to park themselves in their new acreage. If you don’t know at least 3 ways of getting home around here, you will have problems.

[switches on heavy russian-like accent]

Come the revolution, Comrades, there will be one road!

From your house to the factory!

One way!

[russian accent off]

Borrowed that one from Kenny Everett - I guess he won’t be needing it anymore :wink:

Didn’t the Romans invent that? “All roads lead to Rome” And look what happened to them! Long forgotten, never to make a mark on the world.

I always take the same routes to places as a matter of practicality because I get lost very easily. One time, I remember driving home when construction was being done on the offramp I usually take. I followed the orange “Detour” signs, made a wrong turn somewhere, and got lost. It took me a good half an hour to find my way home.

One of these days, I’ll have to shell out the bucks for a doohickie that has a built in map and will announce “Turn Left here” as I’m trying to find my way along the streets.

I take the same route 90% of the time. There is another way which is about 4 miles shorter (I drive about 17 miles to work) but it involves driving through some rather busy residential neighborhoods and getting on a highway I don’t like, so I only take it if traffic is going to be really low (on holidays or if I come home late).

I pretty much take the same route to and from work. But Baglady and I have a way to alleviate the driving boredom.

We’ll wake up on the weekend and decide we just want to hit the road. The only rule is that no Interstates are allowed. This sounds simple, but not in the Bay Area, try to get from Oakland to Santa Rosa without using an interstate. We’ve found tons of small communities we would have never known existed otherwise.

A good savvy Los Angeles driver will always have several alternate routes to any destination. My way home depends upon the traffic situation for that day. It’s a complex equation with several variables.

Usually, it involves taking the path of least resistance. I know where most of the major aterial streets go if I want to use it as an alternative to the freeway.

Well, I live out in the boonies, and there’s usually only two ways to get somewhere: the fast way, or the slow way. I’m into speed, so I go the fast way every time.

However, when I have an hour to kill I’ll take a random turn and drive through the backroads of town.