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One of the tricks I learned quickly upon moving from Amarillo to the Dallas\/Fort Worth Metroplex is how to navigate smoothly along this region’s massive highway network.<\/p>\n

I’m sure you’ve heard about the traffic in this part of the world. Dallas’s traffic jams have become legendary … and Fort Worth is no picnic either.<\/p>\n

Rule No. 1: Never attempt to get anywhere during “rush hour,” morning or afternoon. You wait patiently to schedule your sojourns when you expect everyone out there to be either at work in the morning or at home in the evening.<\/p>\n

Rule No. 2: Find back roads that could get you there nearly as quickly as the freeways\/turnpikes\/parkways\/toll roads. That’s problematic, given that others might already have discovered those back roads, rendering them next to impossible to navigate.<\/p>\n

I drove today from Collin County all the way to southwest Tarrant County. I left after the morning rush and returned prior to the evening rush. The drive is about 60 miles in length, taking me a little more than an hour to complete.<\/p>\n

I did so in both directions with little fuss and even fewer four-letter words muttered under my breath at the traffic jams. What’s more, when you live in West Texas for as long as my wife and I did — 23 years — you learn that to get anywhere,<\/em> you just have to drive a good bit to get there.<\/p>\n

None of this accounts for the possibility of an 18-wheeler overturning and spilling toxic substances all over creation.<\/p>\n

Just wanted to share this learning experience with you. I realize it’s no great discovery on my part, but it sure allows me to go from Point A to Point B and back again without undue stress.<\/p>\n\n

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One of the tricks I learned quickly upon moving from Amarillo to the Dallas\/Fort Worth Metroplex is how to navigate smoothly along this region’s massive highway network. I’m sure you’ve heard about the traffic in this part of the world. Dallas’s traffic jams have become legendary … and Fort Worth is no picnic either. Rule … Continue reading Timing is everything<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56187,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56177\/revisions\/56187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}