Our strategy was to go just south of Atlanta on a Saturday night and drive straight thru very early Sunday morning. No problem!

We leave TV 5:30am and go straight through Atlanta on I75 in the HOV lane---a piece of cake after driving in Chicago.

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Yes stay off the beltway. 75 all the way through. The DC beltway taught me a lesson over the years. We prefer late at night or very early morning hours.

I have friends travelling to various places but perhaps going through Atlanta just hope they or other friends of their's look at TOTV.

I was in DC in May 2015 and remember the Beltway traffic. We often took the train into the city from VA.