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bayareabadger

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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #28 on: February 18, 2020, 10:05:57 PM »
Wisconsin can Michigan in 2005 

Also, underrated, Lexington to Knoxville and Charlotte to say Athens Ohio though Virginia and WV

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« Reply #29 on: February 18, 2020, 10:36:17 PM »


Also, underrated, Lexington to Knoxville and Charlotte to say Athens Ohio though Virginia and WV
That's the rout from Columbus to Myrtle Beach.

There is a great one across NY State as an alternate to I-90. It adds about an hour to the drive, but it is all freeway, no tolls, and meanders through wooded mountains and lakes the entire way.
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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #30 on: February 19, 2020, 12:00:23 AM »
Anybody been on the hwy from Salt Lake City to Reno?  That's got to be THE blandest drive ever.  Why am I even curious?
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Another drive I want to take is from Miami southwest through the southernmost Everglades to the town of Flamingo.  It's GOT to be a weird place.  Extremely isolated, one way in, one way out.
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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #31 on: February 19, 2020, 01:08:23 AM »
Perhaps an obvious point, but the Interstate is not really the best way to 'see the country', if driving.   The amount of man made effort to make that amazing Interstate system required (there's a great book or two on the subject) so much compromise and debasing of so much landscape that it makes the trips so much less interesting than a two lane road.   That's a big tradeoff.  But yes,  I've done much of that drive between SLC and Reno, it's a tough one.   The state HWY 95 I think it is is particularly tough (that's the stretch that meets I-80 at Winnemucca from the northern part of Nevada.  Utah has some amazing highway drives.   I look forward to another trip to Moab region.

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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #32 on: February 19, 2020, 02:22:29 AM »
Utah has great drives, even on Interstates.  The section of I 10 north of LV through the Virgin. River canyon is something to see on the way to Zion NP.  There is a drive over Guardian Pass we took one October when leaves were changing ... It is dirt road in parts.

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« Reply #33 on: February 19, 2020, 08:47:37 AM »
My favorite is the drive between Key West and the mainland in south Florida. I've driven it a few times and on a nice sunny day, the ocean views are spectacular. 

Also, the drive down Skyline Drive along the Shenandoah valley is gorgeous, especially in the fall.  

If you like tight curvy roads, for an interstate highway, I-77 between Charleston WV and Beckly WV is exciting. I pulled a 14 ft trailer with my motorcycle and a bunch of luggage through there on a trip to Hilton Head using my wife's Chevy Traverse. No trailer brakes. That was very nerve racking.

Worst drives I've driven have to be I-35 between Dallas and Austin in the middle of summer, with no air conditioning back in 1982. Any drive through Kansas or Nebraska. I-65 from southern Tennessee to Mobile Alabama. It just takes forever to get there.

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« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2020, 09:41:35 AM »
Use to go up to Ontario/Quebec in early/mid September on fishing trips.Georgeous country once you shake the outskirts of Toronto.Lakes Kashwakamak & Nippissing in Ontario.Lac des Quinze,(dammed for hydo electric back in the day part of a river named Outaouais River I believe which was part of the upper Ottowa River)) and Valdor in Quebec.Gently rolling hills,dairy country,small lakes,rivers and meandering streams and country lanes.In Quebec we had a fresh montain spring about 1/4 mile down a path.Damn near crack your teeth and the accompanying brain freeze.Blue berries and black bears.This is some of what we'd see.There were a paper mill or two along the way which aren't real nice

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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #35 on: February 19, 2020, 11:34:30 AM »
US 1 down to Key West....it's so far......you're an hour south of the Miami area and not even to Key Largo yet....Islamorada......the 7-mile bridge after Marathon....the lower keys...once you get to KW, you really come to see it's closer to Havana than to Miami.  And you can't be in a hurry...it doesn't allow it.
I should have included this in my list.  I remember the first time I did that drive.  Two buddies and I were in FL for Spring Break and we were spending a couple days in Key West.  We had driven straight through from Cleveland.  Two things stand out about that:
  • When you get to the Florida line you are only slightly over half way there.  Seriously, it is 1,400 miles from Cleveland to Key West.  It is 869 from Cleveland to the Florida Welcome Center (free OJ) on I95 North of Jacksonville and another 530 from there to Key West.  
  • The drive from Miami to Key West takes FOREVER.  
We left on a Wednesday afternoon, entered FL at dawn, then stopped in Jacksonville for breakfast.  When we left Jacksonville we did the fastest long drive I think I've ever been on.  We did the ~350 miles from Jacksonville to Miami in well under four hours.  

Anyway, we felt like we were almost there once we left Miami but no such luck.  The Thursday afternoon traffic from Miami to Key West was horrible.  

The funny part about that drive is that most of it is two lane but on some of the larger islands it widens out to four lanes so you can pass.  Every time we hit a four lane stretch it was like a NASCAR race with EVERYONE trying to pass whatever slow vehicle was holding up the group.  


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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #36 on: February 19, 2020, 11:36:04 AM »
Beartooth Highway, between the NE gate of Yellowstone NP over to Red Lodge, MT.  That's a great test of driving and spectacular.   

I once hit about a dozen golf balls off of one of the vistas w a friend about 20 years ago, ball just sails and floats off into the abyss, just an amazing area to fish, hike and camp.  My parents are so spoiled to have so many great day trips.
That Beartooth highway is brutal.  I drove that out of Yellowstone in my Z28 and it was crazy.  I remember looking up at the GPS once (very few opportunities to glance at anything other than the road in front of me) and all I saw on the GPS screen was a giant zig-zag line indicating the numerous switchbacks behind me and to come.  

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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #37 on: February 19, 2020, 11:53:39 AM »
i didn't particularly care for Boston, but north of there is really nice..
Boston drivers are insane...

...and I say that having grown up and learn to drive in Chicago. 

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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #38 on: February 19, 2020, 12:20:43 PM »
I grew up just down the hill from highway 84 in California, and used to know nearly every curve on the road by heart. I'm still close, but don't drive it as much as when I was a teen.

I've ridden the PCH (Highway 1) from Carmel to San Simeon (Heart Castle) on my bicycle (and I've driven it). It's about as good a century as there is, I think.

Memorable drives for me: Sarasota, FL, to San Francisco, via Madison, with my sister when we were both coming home one summer.

Denver to Madison in a day--my last speeding ticket. When I crossed the Wisconsin river, and saw it was 80 miles to Madison, I thought, "I can be there in an hour!" Police didn't think that was a good idea. 1000 miles in a day by yourself is probably also not a good idea.

Drove San Francisco to D.C. with a girlfriend in college. Best part was through the Smokey Mountains. Alas, Dolly World was closed. /sarcasm (but true story).

San Francisco to D.C., through El Paso, with a great friend when we graduated college was pretty awesome. Didn't have enough time to really see the sights, but it was a great drive. On the way back to El Paso, saw fireworks over Little Rock as I drove into town. That was memorable.

I drove from California to El Paso and back a few times. While it was a bit drab in parts, other parts of the desert were spellbinding.

I used to drive from Tennessee to Chicago to visit college buddies pretty often on Highway 41 (with the Allman Brothers cranked up)--once or twice I took the interstate (57).

In college, drove from Madison to D.C., through State College, then stopped to watch the Badgers upset the Nittany Lions on the way back. That was pretty cool.

I-80 is pretty boring through most of the midwest. The stretch from Salt Lake to Reno is brutal.

SFIrish and I drove from San Francisco to Salt Lake, then up through Idaho to Helena, MT, and Glacier, then west through Couer D'Alene to Seattle, then Portland, the redwood forests on the California coast, and back to San Francisco. That was a pretty cool trip. Nearly cooked our brakes coming from Tahoe down to Reno on back roads, nearly ran out of water backpacking in Idaho because the rivers were intermittent (not shown on map), nearly got caught in a wildfire in Glacier while backpacking (when we came back to our truck, there was a note asking us to check in with the ranger on our way out, and in the parking lot were only fire vehicles; when we got to the ranger station, they told us we were literally the last people out--we had been blissfully ignorant). Went to the other side of the park, but could only go halfway on Going to the Sun because of the fires.

Nearly got caught in a tornado in Texas on my way from Houston to Centerville. Had some realizations about the importance (or lack thereof) of work that day.
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« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2020, 01:17:08 PM »
I've been lost exactly one time in my life, and it happened in Boston while the Big Dig was going on, and before GPS. 

Driving in Boston can turn men into little boys. 

I drove around for a couple of hours looking for my hotel. Finally I pulled up behind a cop and got out to ask him for help to find the hotel, and I told him the name of it. He gets out and makes me walk the straight line (I had a few, but long worn off, thankfully). I passed the line test and asked him why he did that to me.

Welp... I was about one block over and one block down from my hotel.

WTF. I'd have made me walk too.
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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2020, 01:22:38 PM »
When you take I 75 south it goes over a large mountain as soon as you cross into Tennessee. But if you jump off at the first exit there is an alternate route that takes you along the river, through the woods, alongside a really crazy railroad line, and then you can hop back onto the freeway at the other end of the mountain at a giant lake in a town called Carreyville, iirc. Great place to spend the night if you are driving from Ohio to Atlanta and don't want to do the whole trip in one day.
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Re: Memorable Drives
« Reply #41 on: February 19, 2020, 03:20:04 PM »
The drive from Reno over Mt. Rose to Lake Tahoe is a pretty scenic drive for a guy from Ohio. I was there a few years ago in January. What I remember most was when I got to the top of Mt. Rose at the overlook on the Nevada side, the sun was out and there was about 4-5 feet of snow everywhere, but the roads were clear. I got out of the car without a jacket and was not cold. The sun was warm and the air was comfortable. 

Then once you clear the ridge and have Tahoe in view, it is stunning. 

 

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