Leopards and cars, oh my!

[giza]

I had quite a uh, varied weekend. The first interesting thing I did was see this lovely leopard painting last night:




The really interesting thing is that this painting is in a service corridor at the Valley Forge Hilton in King of Prussia, PA. For the observant furs, that is the same hotel that Anthrocon was held at in 1999 and 2000. That painting has been sitting there ever since then. I kinda wish that someone would buy it and display it in a more prominent place.

Here's another pic. I'm sorry about the poor quality, but the corridor is only about 3 feet wide.



When I was trying to drive to Philly today, it seems that some dumbass thought it would be a great idea to do a construction project on the Surekill Distressway. On Sunday afternoon. On fathers' day!

Traffic was backed up for MILES. I actually parked my car and got out of it to take this picture. It's the ramp from 202 North to I-76 East:


Many drivers were pissed off at the fact that traffic wasn't moving, and rightfully so! Some brave people decided to drive back the way they came. On an expressway, mind you.

Musical cars:



One guy is going in reverse on the shoulder, one guy is going forward on it:



This picture was taken about 2 miles later. I was sitting in traffic for close to 2 hours at that point.





Whoever it was from PennDOT that scheduled the construction during that day needs to be fired. Seriously. There was no advance notice given that this would be happening. If there was, I would have taken another route. Jeeze.

Comments

[skippyfox.livejournal.com]

You're right--I've driven to and from KoP every day this past week and saw absolutely no signs announcing construction today. The only announced construction that I know of is for the re-paving of the Blue Route and its ramps starting at I-95, and won't even reach Exit 9 until well into next year.

I hope both lanes of the expressway will be open tomorrow.

[firedhusky.livejournal.com]

the guyin the yellow bike, shoud be riding in betwen the cars or on the side passing others...

:)

*wags*

FDH

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Cute painting and horrible traffic!

(Um... but could you tuck the pictures behind an LJ-cut, please? I'd appreciate it.)

[turrentwolfie.livejournal.com]

well try the harlem river drive on any day of the week during rush hour its a long streach of parking lot :3

[giza.livejournal.com]

Done, Mr Crushed Walnut Seller. ;-)

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

That's an anagram of my real name. :}

[alohawolf.livejournal.com]

sometimes I wonder what Caltrans is thinking when they schedule freeway closers, IE, like closing the 10 east at 7 am on a Monday.