2345 miles and 7 States. Slept in Lincoln, Norfolk, Hot Springs, Benkelman, Burlington and Alva. Someday I'll post a pic of four surveyors and some other guy.
Took a lot of blue highways. Drove on only one Interstate, and that was mainly because "you can't get there from here" otherwise. Only had one hotel clerk who definitely has relatives in India. Had another, though, with relatives somewhere in Southeast Asia, maybe Thailand. English was not his number one language, but, we figured it all out eventually. Drove on a road with a sign that said, "When lights are flashing, road is closed. Penalties include $750 fine and jail time." The primary trouble spot was only 32 miles from the lights, or two houses, whichever comes first.
Drove through a Czech cemetery in the middle of the boondocks. Names like Hruska, Havlak, Ptacek and Dvorak. Decided to check the other cemetery one-quarter mile further down the road for my possible relatives.
Ate lunch in the Student Union at a Big 10(12) university and discovered it was sorority rush week. Many of their mothers looked quite fine....and a couple of grandma's, too.;-)
Just reading that exhausted me, Cow!! :}:
I have around 900ks of tar tomorrow....
HC that is pushing the miles along...
I only have around 900ks of tar tomorrow....
Must be off the road before dark because of the big reds who hop out and eat on edge of road where water runs off and green pick emerges.
Will be sleeping under ground for a week in a dug out / Will try and remember to take pics with Wilson...
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I have around 900ks of tar tomorrow....
We have those big reds as well. Only many of ours have short bushy white tails and racks on their heads.
I like to figure the total miles divided by total hours from the time we leave home until we get back as a measure of how travel-intensive the trip was.
You are around 15 mph which is not seriously travel-intensive. We did quite a bit of sightseeing one week at 12.5 mph average. My brother did a several-day vacation at 25 mph, which is too much travel to be a vacation for me. A serious get-there-and-back multi-day trip with one mostly sane driver could exceed 40 mph.
Bill - Travel intensity
Our NH to Colorado road trip last june/july was 6500 miles in 28 days. Only 9.67 miles/hour.
Drove through VT, MA, NY, PA, OH, IN, IL, IA, NE and WY and into CO. Back through WY, NE, SD, MN, AI, , MN, WI, OH, PA, NY, MA, VT and back to NH. W
Make that 8 States
How could I forget driving across a bridge, going about 1/4 mile, turning around and recrossing the bridge. Mrs. Cow does not like bridges of any kind because there is supposed to be water beneath them and she cannot swim. I tried to comfort her by explaining that it was so far down to the water she would be knocked out or killed instantly anyway. Should she survive the fall without injury, the current was rather rapid, the water very deep and the river very wide. Some of that water started out as rain/snow in Montana.
My brother and I once went from Ballantine Montana to Indianapolis Indiana in about 24 hours give or take a couple hours. I'm pretty sure it was less than 24 hours but it's been so long ago.
Only stopped for fuel. We stocked our 1970-something Plymouth Valiant before we left, a mobile snack machine.
We were slowed down by an ice storm as we neared our destination. We stoppped at a truck stop, fueled up, and We 'went for it'. Had to turn around at the end of the onramp on the interstate and drove the wrong way back up the onramp.(had to drive in the gravel to get back up the thing) We waited there, and got a hot meal. The roads were cleared pretty quick by the state road so we pushed on.
It was Feb, 1989. He was 19 and I was 16.
If you do the math, no we didn't exactly drive the speed limit.
He drove. (in case any cops are on here) 😀 😉
When I was a kid we used to move a lot. A whole lot. I changed schools about 20 times (thats all I can remember but even that is a guess) Hey but you build pretty good social skills that way. 😉
I've been on trips from the northwest to the southeast many times.
From Montana to Alabama or Mississippi generally took around 3 maybe 4 days, if memory serves. We sleep in the vehicle, ate out of a cooler, and mom and dad took turns driving.
Once in a while though things wouldn't go so smooth. Once took 12 days to get from Montana to Alabama. Oh I hated that trip. We kept breaking down and after sleeping in the back of a covered pickup for a week or so it quickly becomes 'unfun'.
We then moved to Mississippi a couple months later. Stayed there 4-6 months maybe. Then back to Monatana we went. Broke down before we got a hundred miles. 13 days later we made it to Montana. Then of course there was the customary 2-3 more days sometimes more of finding a place to live at the end of the trip. But we'd pitch a tent and 'camp' until we found a place.
Made the trip from Monatana and back and forth 3 times in less than a year one year. Beeen back and forth many more times than that of course. Dad liked to move.
I would come home on a 3 day pass while Stationed at Ft. Riley KS in 1971. From our family home east of Pittsburgh, to Ft. Riley is 990 miles. I could make the trip in 16 hours, even with a 50 mile detour unto US 40 in Illinois due to I-70 being incomplete at the time.
The only time the car stopped is when the gas tank was empty. While the attendant was fueling my car, I would use the rest room and hit vending machines for some food and soda.
I wouldn’t attempt that trip in less than 2 days now.
