Ominous

The sky is a very hazy, gray color. It's been drizzling all day. The sun doesn't set for about half an hour but it's already close to dark as night.

It's also the busiest travel day of the year.

A co-worker who left the office a little before 2:00pm called in to say that route 30 in Framingham is already a parking lot. I would say that route 9 is too, but route 9 is a disaster on the best of days.

The most commonly heard phrase on the traffic reports is, "Seek alternate route." I do that every day anyway, but even I -oh traveler of the back road less traveled- can expect some big delays today.

This is the down side of Thanksgiving. It'll be all right once we all get where we are going. When that happens we can celebrate one of the United State's best holidays. Until then, however... traffic stress.

Tomorrow we should all give thanks that we managed to avoid the psychotic road rage of the average motoring psycho.

Happy Evening Before Thanksgiving everyone!