The Road

The road represents freedom, it is a blank canvas, a means to an end, and it usually runs through the middle of everything. You may notice a reoccurring theme here in my journals of balance and centering, the road is an analogy for that as well. I find driving to be the time I can order my thoughts. Usually, it is just me and my music, even saying that makes me feel less stress. I love other people and Scratchy the people on the main page can all mean more to me than my own life. So when it is just me to worry about I calm down. I trust the people around me to go on without me just as well as they do when I am around. Not being fatalistic here I want to return to them while I am traveling, but while traveling is the only time I can put it out of my mind enough to relax.

Why can I not just relax doing nothing? ADD mostly, but my idle hands will always construct a boomerang that can shred my life to oblivion at light speed. I spent so much of my life focusing on “having a good time” only to discover that the more good times you have the less you appreciate them. The good times involved mood altering substances which I loved at the time. I still do love the substances I just can’t use them in a manner that will allow me to lead a productive life. I knew that lesson the first time I went to a 28 day rehab facility. The third time I got tired of testing it and accepted it. The road to recovery was long but necessary.

ADD gives me a drive that I always numbed with drugs and then alcohol. So now I fill my time with this! Most people can be happy with one thing and I always knew I needed two. Unfortunately, knowing made it my reality. Now I live with the choices I made in the present. The road I travel is different now.

One more thing… I always want someone to Ride With Me that is why I named my YouTube video series Ride With Me. We don’t need to talk or sing or play on the phone. Let’s just ride down the road together. I recommend watching these videos with your favorite music playing in the background! Bonus points if you speed it up to about 8x 🙂 I will go ahead and notate where everything is at the bottom so you can find the location you are interested in!

Recorded: 2/17/2025
Visibility: Sunny / Snow (in the morning) The road conditions were clear.

Destinations in chronological order:

South Charleston, WV: B-4:20, 29:53-38:10, 1:13:17-1:31:35, 2:35:27-2:47:03, 3:20:18-3:30:30, 3:49:27-E
Thomas Hospital Rear Entrance, US60/MacCorkle Avenue, I64, Dunbar Toll Bridge, Kanawha Turnpike, WV601/Jefferson Road, US119.Corridor G, Southridge, Parkway Drive, Marshall Way, Rock Lake Drive, Kentucky Street, Ohio Street

Dunbar, WV: 4:20-7:51, 23:03-29:53, 38:10-43:13, 1:09:24-1:13:17, 3:42:09-3:49:27
I64, WV25/Fairlawn Avenue/1st Avenue, WV25/10th Street, Dunbar Toll Bridge

Cross Lanes, WV: 7:51-9:20, 43:13-43:12, 51:38-1:09:24
I64, WV622/Goff Mountain Road, Nitro Marketplace

Nitro, WV: 9:20-23:03, 43:12-51:38, 3:37:53-3:42:09
I64, WV25/1st Avenue, Center Street/3rd Street

Alum Creek, WV: 1:31:35-1:40:22, 2:31:51-2:35:27
US119/Corridor G

Danville, WV: 1:40:22-1:51:04, 2:13:03-2:31:51
US119/Corridor G, Veterans Memorial Bypass, Scott High School, Riverside Drive

Madison, WV: 1:51:04-2:13:03
Veterans Memorial Bypass, Riverside Drive, Kanawha Avenue, State Street, Low Gap Road

Charleston, WV: 2:47:03-3:20:18
US119/Corridor G, WV61/MacCorkle Avenue, South Park Road, Chesterfield Avenue, Venable Avenue, 36th Street, Washington Avenue East, California Street, Kanawha Boulevard, Hale Street, Virginia Avenue, Quarrier Street, Summers, Lee Street, Lee Place, Capitol Street (up to where it collapsed), South Side Bridge, Ferry Street

Saint Albans, WV: 3:30:32-3:37:53
US60/MacCorkle Avenue, 3rd Street/Center Street

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