Well you have to keep in mind my family is in Chicopee, so I usually drive down there and get on the Pike there at Exit 4. It just seems to me the all the 2 lane highways are silly when you can be on a four laner. I would take 91 south to the pike from Amherst. But again, we usually would be going back to my family first and then going out to the Pike so it's just the way I go in my head. Yours probably makes more sence...you get on at what exit 7 or 8?