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Originally Posted by BrianL99

The route everyone is giving you, is probably the best ... going through Harrisburg. I make the drive 4 or 5 times a year and there's no way I'd go near 95 North of Richmond. I won't drive through Richmond, Washington DC or NYC under any circumstances ... you never know what you're going to get there.

I think you may want to re-evaluate your ETA. I don't know where in Maine you're going, but there's no way to do it in 21 hours, that I know of. I doubt you can do it in less than 23-24 hours of Driving.

Waze says it's 20 hours to Portland & if you can get within 20% of Waze time on a trip that long, you're doing well. In the history of Waze, I don't think anyone has beaten their time on a trip over an hour.

This is my Route:

Take 301N to Callahan, FL then in Gross, Florida, catch I95N

Take I95N through to Virginia.

Take I295N around Richmond, VA and back onto I95N towards Fredricksburg, VA

You're now 800 miles from TV

From Fredericksburg, VA, take Rt. 17 North Towards Winchester, VA & Harrisburg, PA, which picks up 81N (goes across W. VA, MD & PA)

Take 81N towards Scranton and then take 84E towards Orange Lake/Newburg and Worcester, MA. Get on the Mass Pike in Sturbridge and take the Pike to 290 in Auburn/Worcester. From Worcester take 290 to I495 in Marlboro/Berlin. Take 495 North to 95N in Amesbury.

(You'll cross the Hudson River in Newburg, so you'll avoid everything in and around NYC)

We used to go to Fredericksburg and then cut across to 81 in Winchester. Then we tried taking 26 to 77 to get to 81 and found that to be a much better route. I95 is just too unpredictable once you get north of Georgia. There is no way we would drive I95 north of Fredericksburg!