Today I left Berkeley at 7:04 am to drive the 45 miles to work in Sunnyvale. On a good day, I can make the trip in an hour. On a normal rush-hour day, maybe an hour and 45 minutes.

Today I got in at 9:54, nearly three hours after I left.

There was no accident, no construction, just 10mph traffic that stretched on for miles and miles.

After getting in, I was commiserating with a friend who had a worse-than-usual commute down 101 today, and she thinks she has the explanation: Nobody's travelling. Deloitte & Touche, Arthur Anderson, Ernst & Young, and others, all have large campuses in the South Bay, and they all have bans on travelling right now, so everyone's driving to work at the home office.

Argh. Amtrak, here I come. I am sorry that I forsook thee.