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America's Scariest Highways
YAHOO Travel ^ | By Tim Kiladze

Posted on 05/26/2010 7:26:55 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

Mark Sedenquist and Megan Edwards' California home was destroyed by a forest fire in 1993. Instead of rebuilding, the couple bought an RV and took to the open road, traveling across the U.S. and Canada for almost seven years.

The couple has since settled in Las Vegas, but they continue to take driving vacations and encourage others to do the same on their website, RoadTrip America, which they run through Flattop Productions, their small business. Sedenquist and Edwards estimate they've traveled over 650,000 miles.

(Excerpt) Read more at travel.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: highways; roads
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List is kinda neat...
1 posted on 05/26/2010 7:26:56 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: US Navy Vet

i-70 is the highest pass of interstates.

where’d they get “one of”?


2 posted on 05/26/2010 7:31:06 AM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: US Navy Vet
~300 mi/day?

Think of the Carbon footprint.

3 posted on 05/26/2010 7:32:24 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: US Navy Vet

California sure dominates this list. But I would think at least one highway in Pennsylvania would’ve made it considering that we consistently win the honor of having the nation’s worst roads. We are also the roadkill capital of the nation.


4 posted on 05/26/2010 7:34:48 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: US Navy Vet

I-70 is not scary. Try US6 over the pass in the Winter instead.


5 posted on 05/26/2010 7:35:14 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Vigilanteman

US-30 in PA during the Winter.


6 posted on 05/26/2010 7:36:07 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: US Navy Vet

I-5 in the San Joaquin valley is on the list because of the fog in the winter months but what makes it such a pain to drive and sometimes scary because of all the trucks on it and the big differential in speeds.


7 posted on 05/26/2010 7:36:08 AM PDT by C19fan
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You want fun? Try driving I-70 eastbound at night in February, coming down a five mile steep grade from Eisenhower tunnel. The road paint and reflectors are all-but invisible from a coating of road sand, so you can barely see where you are going. Throw in some swirling snow and you’ll wonder why you decided to go night skiing at Keystone.


8 posted on 05/26/2010 7:36:40 AM PDT by dirtboy
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The OK e-w interstate during fire time.


9 posted on 05/26/2010 7:36:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dirtboy

You should’a gone to Eldora.


10 posted on 05/26/2010 7:37:37 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I-70 is not scary. Try US6 over the pass in the Winter instead.

Both are scary at night. And yeah, I've driven over Loveland Pass in the winter.

11 posted on 05/26/2010 7:37:39 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Eldora didn’t have night skiing in 2000-2002 when I lived in CO. Keystone was about the only hill close to Denver that did at the time.


12 posted on 05/26/2010 7:38:22 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Vail Pass b-4 the Interstate.


13 posted on 05/26/2010 7:39:14 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: US Navy Vet

Wait a minute!...I’m not scary at all, just keep your speed down on the curves!


14 posted on 05/26/2010 7:39:28 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: US Navy Vet
US-191 on a slippy day from Bozeman to BigSky or return.

I-80 from Reno to Sacramento on a snowy day - tight turns and narrow lanes + crazy Californians and illegals.

15 posted on 05/26/2010 7:41:02 AM PDT by Paladin2
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If you think tha’ts bad, slide over to the 99 between the Ridge Route and Tulare.


16 posted on 05/26/2010 7:42:06 AM PDT by csmusaret (Remember, half the people in this country are below average)
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To: dirtboy

Interesting - decades ago I went to Eldora for night skiing on New Years Eve.


17 posted on 05/26/2010 7:42:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I’ll second that nomination. Worst stretch: Mcconnellsburg to Chambersburg, with Ligoner to Bedford being a near runner-up.


18 posted on 05/26/2010 7:42:22 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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There’s a reason we used to use parts of US-30 for brake testing in the summer. ;-)


19 posted on 05/26/2010 7:43:41 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: US Navy Vet

Drive through Camden, NJ sometime. Talk about scary.


20 posted on 05/26/2010 7:44:16 AM PDT by Dogfaced Soldier
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