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.
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US 2 West from Duluth to Grand Rapids (MN). It is flat and straight, but the forest comes right up to the side of the road. The 65 mile and hour speed limit assures no adequate braking time when the moose pops out in front of you. There are skid and road kill marks that look like something from CSI..
Well, after all Colorado is Spanish for ‘Land without guardrails.’
We had installed the studded rear tires (on a 1965 Mustang 6 cyl 3 spd with three >6 ft guys) in Medicine Bow, WY (prior to I-70 and right next to the RR tracks - a train came through in the middle of a snowstorm and scared the **** out of us) during the preceding night and lived to tell the tale. It's not recommended to pass a plow on a two lane when the viz is zer0. I realize that now.
Don’t drive from Fairbanks to Delta in the dark in anything less than an F-250. Just sayin’.
I’ve coasted from the Tunnel to Denver many times in all sorts of weather and traffic. Not lately though.
Tunnel ——> now Tunnels.
YouTube videos of this winter to follow.
US6 over Vail Pass (back in the day), in traffic, caused me the most close calls. Loveland Pass looks scary though and certainly freaks out my wife.
I concur. While I attended Gettysburg College I drove the stretch between Bedford and Gettysburg during semester breaks and holidays. My knuckles still turn white when I think about some of the icy patches I hit.
Be careful out there, you can still get hurt. ;-)
I’ll stipulate that that road certainly qualifies as “exciting”.
>>I’d slow down going over that bridge.<<
We did. :) The wind got really scary at that point. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but the wind was horizontal.
Actually US 20 from West Yellowstone, MT to Ashton, ID in the winter is among my least favorite drives.
89a from Sedona to Flagstaff is a hoot of a ride. 70 west of Denver also.
but the missed the scariest road I can recall ever having been on ...
The Beartooth highway, coming out of Red Lodge to the northeast entrance to Yellowstone was about a pretty interesting ride.
Schnebley Hill Road, from Route 17 south of Flagstaff, down into Sedona is a pretty interesting ride as well.
NM State Road 47... more drunks per mile than a Boston pub crawl, except they're going 75 miles an hour in a 1972 Dodge Power Wagon.
Walking one's dog along the local ditch is a whole nother issue. ;-)
I've been to FL and seen same/similar in ponds in front of facilities I wuz visiting. Walked fast.
Cool. I want a couple of those in 4x4.
The Baton Rouge I-10/I-110 merge westbound ain’t exactly child’s play...
Make that EASTBOUND off the bridge.
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