Posted on 11/13/2019 7:09:21 AM PST by rktman
I saw this today and did a street view trip on the KS highway they showed. Pretty isolated. Then I took a trip from Wray CO to Holyoke CO. Even more so.
Yep. The internet is how I travel now. Not much fun driving a noisy compact car over these road, or on any. (Need a good truck or touring car!) Mrs. Pete wants to go places in person. She wants to go places with Glitz and hotels and restaurants. I like open places where you can pull over and enjoy the horizon and the sky.
Weatherunderground snuck in a 20% chance early next week.
Coming home from my 2nd around-the-USA motorcycle tour, I got caught in an early snow storm on Highway 50 in Utah about 10 miles from the Nevada state line. I am on 2 wheels and I slowed down to about 30 mph to insure I wouldn’t slip on the snow building up on the pavement. Of course, visibility was like 50 feet or less. I was terrified some semi was going to run up my backside at 55 mph in the snow storm. I hit the world’s worst casino at the Nevada state line but it let me get off the highway and gave me a bed for the night until the weather cleared the next day. Of course I learned it was still snowing over Ely, so to get back to San Francisco, I had to backtrack and head up to Salt Lake City and take I-80 back to California.
Oh well... Every day touring on a motorcycle is either a great day or a good story.
My first motorcycle tour of the USA was 2 months and 9,000 miles on I-80 to the east coast and I-10 back to California. My 2nd motorcycle tour of the USA was 2 months and 12,000 miles on old Route 66 to the east coast and I-90 back to California via 50 that didn’t work out so I had to backtrack to 80.
Retirement is going to be a lot of road trips. It is getting darn expensive though. Really expensive. Well, you can’t take it with you.
Funny thing about Sand Mountain. We pulled off to go there so we could hear it "sing".
Unfortunately, the day we went there were a bunch of noisy off-road vehicles. LOL
We drove the Extraterrestrial Highway back to Tonopah after visiting Rachel. It was getting dark, and screeched to a stop after coming upon a herd of cattle crossing the road, LOL.
We knew about the laws, and gave them the right of way!
Probably my neighbor up the street. They take their 5th wheel toyhauler a couple times a year and spend a few days there.
Other than the gas prices, you’d never know you were in the land of fruits and nuts.
Lonely trails are better
Yea, open range can ruin your night!
There are ways.
That makes perfect sense to me. I lost 30% of my hardwood timber stand over the last two years because someone brought Emerald Ash Borer infested firewood into Kentucky. If I’m a Californian or an American who eats fruits and vegetables I want those crops protected.
Campbell Hwy in Yukon must have way less vehicle travelling a day.
You can drive hours without meeting one.
And it’s a pretty drive too.
Goes right on the edge of Tintina Trench with beautiful lakes by the side.
Yeah, considering just how much of our fruits, nuts and veggies actually come from Cali, yeah.
Don’t get lost. lol
Have fun and safe travels.
They’ve been doing it forever. People (including apparently state officials) forget how big the California agriculture industry is. I don’t blame them for taking agri pests seriously.
There’s a road that cuts east/west across the UP of Michigan. I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned.
Never been lost in Nevada. Been bewildered once or twice.
Hat tip to Twain.
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