Left this morning a half hour before sunrise. Had a bunch of bumper to bumper traffic in Indianapolis. Then up to the stupid route the State of Illinois sent me on through the suburbs of Chicago. Here is a map of the route. I can understand some of the routing because the Chicago area has a lot of very low bridges and I am 14 feet high. But this seems a bit weird. Even on this route I went under a few bridges that were 14 feet, 3 inches high.
The dumbest portion was where I had to do a "U" turn.
Here is a street view of the intersection.
The photo below is the same as the one above. I have drawn lines showing how I had to round this intersection. The purple line shows where I first rounded the corner, unable to make it all the way around. The red-ish line shows where I had to back up. The green line shows how I finally rounded the corner. What the photo does NOT show is that there was a LOT of traffic. I had things pretty clogged up. It was a lot of fun backing up, through all that traffic, through those intersections.
I made it and continued up to Elmhurst and delivered the excavator. Next load is tomorrow morning. I drove back down to the Petro in Monee, Illinois for the night.
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