Cruise Hwy 99 without leaving home

You probably think this is a joke, but you can
cruise Hwy 99 without leaving the comfort of your, well wherever you read this blog from.   

Thanks to some marvelous, amazing and slightly creepy technology from Google maps, you can cruise from Withycombe to well, GroveAtopia did not have the patience to see how far to the north it went.  I got just past Jim's Tire Factory before I decided I had spent enough time cruising. 

But for awhile  it was interesting.  Starting from the intersection of Hwy 99 and Main, clicking my way slightly north to Jim's Tire Factory, turning around, then heading south, there is that yellow Volkswagen, destined to repeat that right hand turn onto Main Street over and over.  Then, passing the Exxon station you think, a) this video was taken back before it changed to Conoco, and b) the price of gas was edging toward $3.00 a gallon.  Or maybe it was heading downward?

Then, as you realize you are cruising on the wrong side of the road and cannot, no matter what, make the, what are you in, a car?  A hovercraft?  A dream where you don't need a vehicle to float along?  Whatever, you cannot get on the correct side of the road.  This must be what it's like driving in England!  Or piloting a hovercraft in England!  Or dreaming in England!  

But then, you realize apparently you are invincible.  Cars do not touch you as you creep along slowly past South Lane Mental Health (lots of cars in the lot, what time of day is this?), Patriot Mortgage, and the light at the Woodson Bridge.  

But wait!  The line is heading directly for Riverside Gardens mobile home park!  Watch out!  Whew, you have veered back onto the road, but again on the wrong side.  Since this is your first trip you wonder, will we go as far as Saginaw?  Walker?  Creswell?  Or are we going over the connector and onto I-5?  

But no, the trip ends abruptly at Withycombe Avenue, just past Figaros.  I guess whoever was filming got tired, just like I got tired of driving, hovering, floating or however I was moving down Hwy 99 without leaving home.