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Used to be, you could go out on the interstate late at night, and seemingly have the entire road to yourself. We used to go out on the interstates at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning, and literally not see another car for miles. I can even remember getting on one stretch where it was a downhill slope, and you could see for 3 miles and firing tracer rounds out of a 30.06, and watching them bounce down the roadway. It just isn't that way anymore. I'm not scared of the speed, just what some other idiot might decide to do out there while I'm getting my speed thrills. I still like speed, but now I tend to do it on a more forgiving medium...the water. I have a '00 Yamaha GP1200R (that's a personal watercraft) that I've done some upgrades to and I can get about 74 mph out of it. That's confirmed on GPS. Not quite like the motorcycles and cars of my youth, but 74 on the water is haulin'!!!! And one of these days I'm going to get one of those go-fast offshore boats like a Baja Outlaw 26. Twin 502's, and making about 800 hp. 100+ on the water is every bit as thrilling as 200 on land.