Holy Cow, post: 380011, member: 50 wrote: .... Mild compared to traversing the Rockies, though.
Creede, CO to Lake City, CO comes to mind.
20 miles as the eagle flies. 50 miles or better for a motor vehicle.
paden cash, post: 380012, member: 20 wrote: Creede, CO to Lake City, CO comes to mind.
20 miles as the eagle flies. 50 miles or better for a motor vehicle.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is the most interesting drive in the U.S. for me by car or motorcycle.
Next would be HWY 1 in CA from Carmel to Morro Bay.
I got back at Holy Cow, I was based at Wichita for B-47 Training in the USAF for six months in 1959. My assignment after Wichita was up the road a bit to Salina, Kansas, was exiled there for five years from 1960 till early 1965, would probably still be there if they hadn't closed out the B-47 at Schilling AFB and closed the base. Salina was a small town with such a big base, it was indeed an exile. Would visit Wichita or Kansas City for excitement. I have all 50 States, several visits to Alaska even drove the ALCAN to Alaska. Passed through Hawaii several times going to Guam in the B-47 and three times gong to Vietnam in the U-2 operation. Did 13 years in Kansas City flying for TWA, while there did seven years in the Air Guard at Lincoln, Nebraska. I'll be going to Nebraska next week for a Surveying Seminar and will get to see Mr. Penry, that is one person that is well worth going all the way to Nebraska to visit. After Kansas City with TWA I transferred to New York and lived in North Carolina and commuted to work for eleven years. Retired TWA in1991 with 24 years. After retirement from TWA I have taken several driving trips each year. Will be going to Del Rio in September for a U-2 reunion. That will about close out my 2016 traveling. I turned 80 back in May, this may be my last year of traveling, hope not but the wife is fussing about my trips. She seems to think I'm old.
As to your question as to why so many towns with the ending of ville. At the time many of the locations were being settled we had just finished a war with England which uses the terms burg, ton, and town and the French were our allies so the French term ville was used a lot. Some of the settlements that had the English ending actually changed there names.
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Holy Cow, post: 380011, member: 50 wrote: I had a strong suspicion there would be several of you close to our racetrack. Wish we would have been able to schedule time to do some sightseeing and chatting with wonderful survey folk but the daughter's schedule dictated we had barely enough time to make the run in the first place.
That stretch of highway leaving Tennessee towards Asheville, NC is sort of fun. Mild compared to traversing the Rockies, though.
You actually hit my whole gang. Daughter in Nashville, daughter in Charlotte, daughter in Lexington, and you were within 5 miles of us at exit 45 on I-24.
Really? 2000 miles, and you didn't get stopped once?
I was thinking that 3 days and 2000 miles in a Honda Odyssey with HC could be considered 'cruel & unusual' punishment in some jurisdictions.
Loyal, post: 379928, member: 228 wrote: Holy,
I've been to all of the states on your "not yet" list, except, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Florida, and Alabama. So you got a boat load of Southeast and East Coast that I don't.
Of course that 6 State "block" in the Northeast could be covered in a single day without having to stop for gas, unlike the Western States.
Alaska is my favorite, but Hawaii is near the bottom of my list. To be fair, I've only seen O'aha and Maui. Folks tell me that Hawaii is THE Island to visit.
Loyal
The Big Island is the place - Hope to retire in Kona or Captain Hook.
Think I've been to 40 if you count layovers at the Anchorage airport on the way out to Japan. Couldn't get a beer either time, everything was closed.
Only a future heir would endure such punishment willingly.
Did not pass through Lexington this time. From near Paducah to the west side of Charlotte was identical both going and coming back.
Holy Cow, post: 380075, member: 50 wrote: the west side of Charlotte was identical both going and coming back.
Holy Cow, post: 380075, member: 50 wrote: Only a future heir would endure such punishment willingly.
Did not pass through Lexington this time. From near Paducah to the west side of Charlotte was identical both going and coming back.
Regretfully, that is the state of 21st century interstate travel.
Every place looks the same along commercial areas and exits. One banal chain store or mediocre food franchise after another for the status quo.
It doesn't matter what state that you are in because it is becoming all the same ruled by bad taste as the lowest common denominator. It has happened here in the last 5 years. Cracker Barrels, Steak and Shakes, Panera bread, 5 guys, Olive Garden, Buffalo Wild Wings, Texas Roadhouse, out backs, and on and on.
The sense of place has been destroyed,
It doesn't matter where you are, they have built the maze so that you are not amazed by anything.
Robert Hill, post: 380090, member: 378 wrote:
Regretfully, that is the state of 21st century interstate travel.
Every place looks the same along commercial areas and exits. One banal chain store or mediocre food franchise after another for the status quo.
It doesn't matter what state that you are in because it is becoming all the same ruled by bad taste as the lowest common denominator. It has happened here in the last 5 years. Cracker Barrels, Steak and Shakes, Panera bread, 5 guys, Olive Garden, Buffalo Wild Wings, Texas Roadhouse, out backs, and on and on. The sense of place has been destroyed, It doesn't matter where you are, they have built the maze so that you are not amazed by anything.
I call it "Generica". While working on the road when I was younger I realized that every exit on the Interstate I stayed near had a Motel 6, a Waffle House, a truck stop and a Cracker Barrel. It didn't matter if I was in Kalamazoo or Kingston. They all looked the same from that one spot near the Interstate. Sad really.
paden cash, post: 380093, member: 20 wrote: I call it "Generica". While working on the road when I was younger I realized that every exit on the Interstate I stayed near had a Motel 6, a Waffle House, a truck stop and a Cracker Barrel. It didn't matter if I was in Kalamazoo or Kingston. They all looked the same from that one spot near the Interstate. Sad really.
Never had a Motel Six here but in the last few years there have built a new huge Holiday Inn Express, LaQuinta, Homewood, and some others.
The big truck stop has always been 25 miles from here in Slidell.
But we do have the best Waffle House in the whole world here. Believe it or not. I have a friend who has been a waitress there for 27 years.
Pogo said something about how we have met the enemy and he is us. As long as the bulk of the travelers spend their money willingly at the most convenient vendors, the primary options available will be the same old options over and over again. Few will drive that extra half mile to find the mom and pop business that cannot pay a million dollars to place their shop within eyesight of the highway driver.
