[Ed Dantes]

I appreciate your concern, but I think I'll take the eight-hour round trip myself.

*cough cough*... hmmm, I feel something coming on, I hope I don't have to take a sick day anytime soon...

Ed, you must drive like an old man. I can make it from my house in Chesapeake to the Vines Center in 3:08. (Hey, I'm a track guy...I know all of my personal records.)

The stretch of I-64 from the Indian River Exit (286) to rt 460, where I can pick up the road to Lynchburg, is awful. If you live in Chesapeake and you don't have to deal with the construction by Battlefield and Greenbrier, then yeah, I'd believe that you can hit it in 3:08. But seriously, those few miles will put me back about a half-hour.