Are you thinking of the song Ventura Highway by America or is there another song? Just curious.

No, that's the one.

The one I haven't been able to stop singing in my head since I posted it. Bah.





(And yes, it's called "Ventura Highway" which ironically immortalizes the Ventura Freeway. Where they ever called highways here in California? Back east, they're called highways. Always by name (at least back in my day). Never even knew any of the route numbers.)

Where I grew up the linguistic difference between freeways and highways was pretty strong:

Freeways are non-stop. You have on ramps and off ramps. Highways were major roads that still have the occasional stoplight. So a single road (such as 101) might alternate between being a freeway and a highway.

Darn you people, with your earworms.

It really does matter where you work vs. where you live. For instance: I live in Hollywood, I work in West L.A. on the edge of Santa Monica. This is about 18 miles. This takes, on a good day, about 45 minutes. This takes, on a standard trafficky day, about 70 minutes. This takes, on the day before Thanksgiving, about 2.5 hours.

Earworms?

BTW Nephy: sorry that I contributed to the derailment of your thread with a silly freeway/highway/byway/toll road/insane traffic discussion.

I learnt sumthin gnu 2day

Sort of like the American "in the hospital" vs. the British "in hospital".

Ralphs is known elsewhere as Kroger, it's true. Interestingly, I think the same parent company also owns Food 4 Less.

My house to Honda Center (by Disneyland) (15 miles) at 5:30pm is an hour
Honda Center to home at 10pm is 20 minutes.

When I lived in Huntington Beach and worked by John Wayne Airport (about 13 miles) it took me 30-40 minutes to get to work, and an hour to get home.

After I moved south to Laguna (about 17 miles) it took me 20-30 minutes to get to work and 30 minutes to get home.