@flga-2-2?ÿ
Understand.
When I'm not using GPS I usually have the gazzeteer for the state that I live in and all the adjacent States so when I live in Colorado the first time and now back in Colorado I had Wyoming Utah Arizona New Mexico I also had Nevada and Idaho cuz I would work there a lot I bought one for Washington.
After my recent trip to South Dakota for work I'm getting one for South Dakota and Nebraska because I forgot how cool some of those areas are and GPS doesn't work when your phone doesn't work so yeah there's that.
As a kid we take cross country trips my parents use triple A and then have a trip tick built up for him so I got to pill for through that and check out all the roads and places we'd be staying I guess it got me started off as an early age to be geospatially aware because I've never really gotten lost just on the wrong side of a bridge or the wrong side of a river so that was remediated
@jitterboogie I almost always stop at the first Rest Area when I cross State lines and pick up a State Map.?ÿ Even using GPS I like to look at a map ahead of time to, at least, get a feel for the general direction and distances.?ÿ I have approximately 20 maps in either my truck or our camper.
Andy
@flga-2-2?ÿ
"And the skies are not cloudy all day.......Home, home on the range"
A very different sort of Enterprise.
Women have a strong tendency to go by waypoints.
On a road trip I call "waypoints" the places SWMBO has to stop to pee. ?????ÿ
Here is my best guess.?ÿ The no u-turn zone lasts for about three blocks, ending near City Hall and starting at the Bank corner you can see in the photo.?ÿ They probably did allow u-turns in that area decades ago.?ÿ When they changed the city ordinance to stop that practice, they would have put up signs to clarify that instruction.?ÿ They have maintained them so the old geezers who had that privilege when they were young are reminded that times have changed.
The town where I attended high school had a similar three block strip where u-turns were made by a little bit of anyone every day.?ÿ The short version of "draggin' Main" consisted of going from First to?ÿ Fourth, make a u-turn, then back to First and another u-turn.?ÿ That practice was changed at some point, officially.?ÿ But, as Main Street is 100 feet wide, people still do it on a regular basis.?ÿ We have a couple of other towns with really wide main streets (whatever there name really is) with parallel parking spots down the center of the street for additional parking.
If you go to googlearth and home in on Enterprise, KS you can learn the stone buildings on the left were erected in 1878.?ÿ Can't quite make out the year on the bank at the first corner.?ÿ Immediately to the right of the camera in the photo above is a red, wooden structure.?ÿ That appears to be a renovation and relocation of the original grist mill.
BTW, when I do a googlearth search, I like to start somewhere else and end at where I'm going, just for fun.?ÿ In this case, go from Detroit, KS to Enterprise, KS.?ÿ About 15 miles north and a little to the west of Detroit is the metropolis of Industry.
My quote above from the song, Home on the Range, ties in well as it is the official State Song.?ÿ The cabin where the words of the song were written is located about midway between Smith Center, KS and Franklin, NE.
Without U-turns, we would still be on our last return trip from Kansas 5 years ago. I have no idea how many were illegal, but if the road was wide enough and no one was coming ....?ÿ?ÿ
Around here, we've incorporated U-turns into normal traffic flow. In the screenshot below, the big building on the left is a Walgreens where I have prescriptions filled. If you're approaching from the Southwest, you are directed to make a U-turn at the light, yielding to turn-right-on-red cars coming from the Northwest. If you make the mistake of turning left anticipating making a left turn into the parking lot, forget it. U-turns are not permitted at the end of the traffic island.
Now if you're leaving the parking lot at the Northwest end and want to go Northwest, you turn right and make a U-turn at the light, mindful of your brethren turning right on red.
Those refilling beer supplies should go somewhere easier to navigate.
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I see your Walgreens are constructed in the same manner as they are constructed here.?ÿ You must go to one of the far corners to enter, then work your way back towards the main entrance.?ÿ I solve the u-turn issue by always approaching such that I can make a right turn into the entrance.?ÿ But, not a significant issue as Walgreens is a once in a blue moon type of shopping for me.?ÿ And, it is never for drugs.?ÿ We get our drugs at our small town pharmacy where we know the owner and her husband plus most of the employees.?ÿ One of these days I'm gonna go in there grab some packages of condoms, toss them on the counter and say, "DO NOT tell Mrs. Cow about this but go ahead and charge them to her credit card for me."?ÿ Wait for the reaction.?ÿ Then laugh and put them back.
I started surveying in 1980, but started doing GPS in 1986, which took me to all 50 states and several other countries. I wish I would have kept a journal of places I have been, interstates I have driven, airports I have been through, etc.?ÿ
Long ago I learned the interstate "secret code". And always notice when something doesn't fit. Like I99 in central PA, but they stuck it between I79 and I81. Since it connects I76 and I80, not sure why they didn't give it a three digit designation.?ÿ ?ÿ?ÿ
Us Crackers down here view traffic signals, speed limit signs, and all roadside warning signs of any type as merely suggestions. (EXCEPT SCHOOL ZONES) You get caught speeding in a school zone here, plan on getting a second mortgage to pay the fine. ?????ÿ
Had an older fellow working with me many years ago.?ÿ Many of those survey jobs were out in the boondocks where two to four vehicles per day would be a high traffic count.?ÿ Every time I cruised on through an intersection with a stop sign, but where you can see over a half mile in all directions, he would say, "I believe that sign said STOP."?ÿ Then I would reply with, "Oh, that's merely a suggestion."
