Bob Buchanan
Senior Member
Hi Tom:
>> Just remembered that I usually drive with prescription shades. As you see from my avatar, even when I'm not wearing shades, I'm wearing photochromatic (aka photo grey) lenses and have done for many years. Either of these might affect the "light" when I suddenly enter the confines of a booth.
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Just found this thread and have found it very interesting. Have thought of starting a thread on a few of my "freeway phobias" to see if others share any of them. However, trouble with a toll booth has never been one of them. Would my '98 Tioga Class C 450 be that much narrower than your Monaco? Perhaps the perception of the van front end makes the difference. I have never had a second thought about a toll booth. Actually, most of my experience has been with border crossings plus the toll booths in the Bay area.
The dark shades sound like a reasonable explanation. Sometimes if I am wearing sunglasses on a very bright day -- and then enter a tunnel, I will get an uncomfortable feeling. There's a tunnel in Phoenix on I10 close to the I17 intersection that threw me the last time I drove that road. However, I picked someone up at the airport at night, and it didn't bother me at all. Of course, if you wore regular glasses, you wouldn't look as cool 8).
My biggie's are high drop offs with no guard rails and getting stuck between two 18 wheelers approaching a busy freeway interchange. I also don't like driving through city freeways the first time. I'm a solo driver and get nervous that I may be in the wrong lane and wind up in Utah.
BTW, FWIW to those driving Reno to Sacramento. If is very easy to drive through Truckee and avoid the bug station. Just take the first exit before the inspection booths and return the next after. They are such a joke it's pathetic. We should move them all down to the Mexican border.
>> Just remembered that I usually drive with prescription shades. As you see from my avatar, even when I'm not wearing shades, I'm wearing photochromatic (aka photo grey) lenses and have done for many years. Either of these might affect the "light" when I suddenly enter the confines of a booth.
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Just found this thread and have found it very interesting. Have thought of starting a thread on a few of my "freeway phobias" to see if others share any of them. However, trouble with a toll booth has never been one of them. Would my '98 Tioga Class C 450 be that much narrower than your Monaco? Perhaps the perception of the van front end makes the difference. I have never had a second thought about a toll booth. Actually, most of my experience has been with border crossings plus the toll booths in the Bay area.
The dark shades sound like a reasonable explanation. Sometimes if I am wearing sunglasses on a very bright day -- and then enter a tunnel, I will get an uncomfortable feeling. There's a tunnel in Phoenix on I10 close to the I17 intersection that threw me the last time I drove that road. However, I picked someone up at the airport at night, and it didn't bother me at all. Of course, if you wore regular glasses, you wouldn't look as cool 8).
My biggie's are high drop offs with no guard rails and getting stuck between two 18 wheelers approaching a busy freeway interchange. I also don't like driving through city freeways the first time. I'm a solo driver and get nervous that I may be in the wrong lane and wind up in Utah.
BTW, FWIW to those driving Reno to Sacramento. If is very easy to drive through Truckee and avoid the bug station. Just take the first exit before the inspection booths and return the next after. They are such a joke it's pathetic. We should move them all down to the Mexican border.