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Riffraft · « **Reply #56 on:** February 21, 2020, 09:41:15 AM »

Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on February 20, 2020, 05:20:45 PM

Yeah, my first year on the reservation, we had so much snow they were air-dropping food and had national guard people trying to reach certain housing areas. We had like 4 days of school in the month of January, and Flagstaff always got more snow than we did.
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I view Phx/Flag akin to Death Valley/Mt. Whitney in CA - the lowest and highest points in the lower 48 so near each other....120 degrees/snow flurries 2 hours apart in AZ.
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I'll never forget flooring it in my little Saturn, towing a trailer, up that elevation. Flooring it and maybe going 35mph.

Moving out to Phoenix from Cincinnati to Phoenix was an adventure. I have a 24' truck towing a car. Going up over the mountains to get into camp Verde valley with it floor just creeping along hoping to get over the mountain and then going down the mountain with a death grip on the wheel trying your best to keep your speed down and not loss control. Then you get to repeat that on the other side of the valley. Fun, fun, fun.

FearlessF · « **Reply #57 on:** February 21, 2020, 10:43:23 PM »

just drove from D/FW to Sioux City, IA yesterday

nothing memorable about it except for the stop in Topeka at the Blind Tiger

great food, great beer, friendly folks - filled two growlers

on the way down to Dallas last Saturday, went through Rogers, AR near Fayettenam. Played a round of golf, stayed overnight and then into Dallas down 75 through Sherman for a round of golf there.

FearlessF · « **Reply #58 on:** February 21, 2020, 11:07:34 PM »

memorable drives??? Many off the top of my head.......

the north shore of lake Superior from Duluth to Thunder Bay on 61 on a motorcycle

Los Gatos to Monterey down hwy 1

Walsenburg to Durango over Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado many times, couple times on motorcycles

Durango to Silverton to Ouray to Ridgway to Telluride to Cortez and back to Durango on motorcycles with a tent stay near Telluride near Bridal Veil Falls

LittlePig · « **Reply #59 on:** February 22, 2020, 02:54:06 PM »

Well, that 22-play game-winning TD drive by MSU in 4Q of the 2015 Big Ten CCG against Iowa, now that was a memorable drive!

Oh, wait I guess we are talking about a different type of drive

Cincydawg · « **Reply #60 on:** February 22, 2020, 02:59:53 PM »

I think we can allow football winning drives as well. Heck, why not, now folks are claiming Boston College is in the state of MA.

huskerdinie · « **Reply #61 on:** February 22, 2020, 05:12:04 PM »

Take the pigtail highway to Mount Rushmore. Talk about beautiful scenery and seeing the monument framed in the tunnels is very pretty at night when it is lit up. Can get a little dizzy with all the switchbacks, but I think it is worth it.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #62 on:** February 22, 2020, 05:44:28 PM »

When I was 16 or 17, I drove US 129 between NC and TN, a now famous road. At the time there were virtually no cars and no trucks at all because it is curve after curve after curve, and doesn't really go anywhere important. There is only one decent view I can recall and the gap in the mountains is pretty low. Woe be he who was in the backseat. Even up front I'd get a bit dizzy/nauseous. Today you can't drive it much at all because of the bike traffic.

This was one way to get to my grandparents house back then, not the best way by far, but "interesting".

FearlessF · « **Reply #63 on:** March 02, 2020, 03:21:29 PM »

March is nearly upon us. As you read this, the first 2020 Chevrolet Corvettes are headed to dealership but if you haven’t already ordered one, you might have to wait a while to experience it for yourself. That is, unless you can get to the National Corvette Museum near the ‘Vette’s assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Hand the museum $299 and they’ll let you turn laps in a new C8 on the museum’s 3.2-mile road course. Of course, there’s a bit more to it than that.

NCM Motorsports Park is just across the street from the museum, and touring laps of the track in a new C8 are open to museum visitors depending on weather conditions and track availability. You don’t slap down $300 and go tearing around corners, however – touring laps have drivers following a pace car around the course, with four laps allowed for the session.

Speeds aren’t mentioned, but NCM Motorsports Park's online description for laps doesn’t include helmets or other safety requirements such as long-sleeve shirts, so we suspect these laps are relatively low-speed. That’s further supported by a passenger over the age of 14 being allowed to accompany the driver.

If you crave something a bit more exciting in a Corvette, NCM Motorsports Park can accommodate that as well. The facility will host several Corvette Experience days throughout 2020, with the first event scheduled for March 26. Attendees will receive classroom instruction as well as on-track driving practice for an unspecified number of laps. Like the touring laps, drivers will tackle the track with a pace car leading the way. Unlike the parade laps, there are no passengers allowed and helmets with long pants and close-toed shoes are required.

Again, speeds aren’t mentioned but in our experience, you don’t strap on a helmet unless you’re expecting a brisk pace. The Corvette Experience also includes lunch and a special tour of the museum, so it sounds like an all-day thing. At $799, It’s also a bit more pricey than the parade laps.

Production of the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette in underway, with first customer deliveries expected to start in earnest next week.

https://www.motor1.com/news/401410/corvette-c8-test-driven-track/

CWSooner · « **Reply #64 on:** March 02, 2020, 11:26:05 PM »

Fort Bragg, NC, to Tulsa, OK, via Charlotte, Asheville, Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, and Fort Smith. Several times. And back. I always drove it straight through, in a Mazda RX-7, with a 2-hour nap in the car at a truckstop in TN. The interesting part of the trip was when maybe 100 miles W of Charlotte I got off US-74 onto NC-9/Alt US-74. That took me through Lake Lure, Chimney Rock, and Bat Cave. Those were in the mountains, and NC-9 was a twisty 2-lane road. I nearly always was driving through there at night, and it was often foggy.

Redding, CA, to Lake Tahoe. I left Redding early, and it was still not fully daylight as I was going through the Lassen National Forest (taking the long way so as to go through Reno and pick up my wife at the airport there). It was September, and the Aspens were golden. Tahoe was beautiful.

Pittsburgh to Gettysburg. We took the route that went down into Maryland, passed by Hagerstown, and came into Gettysburg from the SW on PA-116. We passed through a skanky stretch of adult entertainment stores, but the big thrill came when we were maybe 10 miles from Gettysburg and could look off to the right front and see Roundtop and Little Roundtop. I had never been to Gettysburg, but I knew what I was seeing the instant they became visible.

Sheridan, WY, up I-70 to the Little Bighorn Battlefield. Same as with Gettysburg. I had never been there, nor had I seen any images of the area from our perspective, but I knew I was seeing Reno Creek and Reno hill off to the east of I-70 as soon as they appeared.

SFBadger96 · « **Reply #65 on:** March 03, 2020, 07:32:46 PM »

Not a drive, but not completely different, either. Taking the kids on an overnight train trip, the California Zephyr, from the Bay Area to Grand Junction, Colorado (to visit Moab/Arches). I hear great things about it--and I'm happy that Reno to Salt Lake is in the dark of night. :-)

Brutus Buckeye · « **Reply #66 on:** June 10, 2020, 03:45:56 PM »

Northwest of Las Vegas you have the Great Basin Highway (US93), which runs north and south just west of the Nevada-Utah state line all the way up into Idaho. I drove this route a couple of weeks ago, and it was truly a jaunt through the middle of nowhere.

There would be about 140 miles between each town, 100 of which you couldn't get any phone service, and you'd only be able to pick up 2 or 3 radio stations on your dial. There are no houses, no gas stations, or even farms. There was a rest stop that didn't even have an outhouse. So it was just a designated place where you could stop and pee on the side of the road.

Wells Nevada, the town at the junction of US93 and I80, made West Virginia look like Beverly Hills. Most of the businesses were boarded up and abandoned, including about a dozen motels. About 80 percent of the lots contained only a single wide trailer from the 70s, completely covered in dents. The "nice streets" had little tiny houses about the size of a double wide. Every yard had a vicious dog or three that would just snarl and growl and bark at every passer by, so it was impossible to walk around without setting off all the dogs.

There was actually a pretty cool town along the way called Ely, and they have a star gazing train where they would take you to a mountain top with a telescope and let you explore the night sky. Of course they are somehow booked out for a year in advance, so I won't be doing that even though it sounds pretty awesome. Every road out of that town had a sign warning motorists about how long it would be before they will encounter another service station, and in each case it was well over 100 miles. One of the roads, US50 heading west towards Reno, is labeled as "the loneliest road in America."

FearlessF · « **Reply #67 on:** June 11, 2020, 01:12:17 PM »

a possible road for an increased speed limit - say 100mph?

or, does the road suck? narrow and bumpy and rough

Brutus Buckeye · « **Reply #68 on:** June 11, 2020, 01:24:42 PM »

It's a great road.

The speed limit is 70, and when there is another car coming, you can spot it from miles away.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #69 on:** June 11, 2020, 01:28:39 PM »

I drove I-80 across South Dakota in a 4 cylinder minivan (with three kids). The absence of traffic was amazing, I'd see another car every 3-4 miles. That minivan would struggle above about 82 mph, sounding strained, I think it only had 92 hp. It was a manual.

That was a slow car.

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