you took 26 hours to get to jackson from dallas?

were old people passing you?

10/16/2007 10:30:59 PM

look at my original post

A->B





















C

10/16/2007 10:33:47 PM

sorry, i was getting your post confused with jackleg's.

10/16/2007 10:35:13 PM

one of these days i hope to make the drive down this bad boy

10/18/2007 1:28:56 AM

two months

10/27/2007 12:38:17 PM

just over two weeks

12/11/2007 5:55:36 PM

today woulda been a cool day to go on a road trip

12/11/2007 5:57:32 PM

yea, instead i went around Raleigh taking pictures

12/11/2007 6:08:14 PM

keep your heart 3 stacks

12/11/2007 6:12:44 PM

^huh?

12/11/2007 6:46:12 PM

few more days

12/23/2007 10:52:13 PM

12/30/2007 5:58:13 PM

we should drive to belize chembob

12/30/2007 6:06:29 PM

fuck yes.

12/30/2007 6:08:11 PM

this will be useful

http://tinyurl.com/yuagm4

1/26/2008 6:57:30 AM

I was toting my pack along the long dusty Winnemucca road
When along came a semi with a high canvas covered load
If your goin' to Winnemucca, Mack with me you can ride
And so I climbed into the cab and then I settled down inside
He asked me if I'd seen a road with so much dust and sand
And I said, "Listen! I've traveled every road in this here land!"

I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to:
Reno
Chicago
Fargo
Minnesota
Buffalo
Toronto
Winslow
Sarasota
Wichita
Tulsa
Ottawa
Oklahoma
Tampa
Panama
Mattawa
LaPaloma
Bangor
Baltimore
Salvador
Amarillo
Tocapillo
Barranquilla
And Padilla

I'm a Killer
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to:
Boston
Charleston
Dayton
Louisiana
Washington
Houston
Kingston
Texarkana
Monterey
Ferriday
Santa Fe
Tallapoosa
Glen Rock
Black Rock
Little Rock
Oskaloosa
Tennessee
Tinnesay
Chicopee
Spirit Lake
Grand Lake
Devil's Lake
Crater Lake

For Pete's Sake
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to:
Louisville
Nashville
Knoxville
Ombabika
Schefferville
Jacksonville
Waterville
Costa Rica
Pittsfield
Springfield
Bakersfield
Shreveport
Hackensack
Cadillac
Fond du Lac
Davenport
Idaho
Jellico
Argentina
Diamantina
Pasadena
Catalina

See What I Mean
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been to:
Pittsburgh
Parkersburg
Gravelbourg
Colorado
Ellensburg
Rexburg
Vicksburg
Eldorado
Larimore
Atmore
Haverstraw
Chatanika
Chaska
Nebraska
Alaska
Opelika
Baraboo
Waterloo
Kalamazoo
Kansas City
Sioux City
Cedar City
Dodge City

What A Pity
I've been everywhere, man
I've been everywhere, man
Crossed the deserts bare, man
I've breathed the mountain air, man
Of travel I've had my share, man
I've been everywhere

I've been everywhere

I've been to quite a few places from this song. Hopefully I'll see them and then some.

2/24/2008 10:04:24 PM

Noen and I are going on a kick ass road trip in a few days

!!!!!!!!!

2/24/2008 11:25:58 PM

I'm driving Asheville to Providence in early April

2/24/2008 11:33:53 PM

^^do tell

^ah, Providence, home to my Archie Bunkeresque grandfather

2/25/2008 12:21:56 AM

where The Goonies was filmed

2/25/2008 12:24:00 AM

Astoria, never been, but I'd like to go. If I get stationed in Seattle, I'll stop there the night before I roll on to the base.

2/25/2008 12:25:22 AM

One last road trip coming up.

4/15/2008 1:38:11 AM

^ there doesn't ever have to be a last one. I take a couple months every year just to hit the road. stretch it out a bit, an take it easy

4/15/2008 1:44:39 AM

Well the last one out of Raleigh.

4/15/2008 1:46:31 AM

Well, turns out I have two more waiting for me in the fall - gonna need to take another semester.

Came back home a little out of the way. Went via St. Louis and Amarillo. Took 40 to 421 and drove 421 all the way to Kentucky, and got back on the interstate (75) south of Lexington, and then west from Louisville on 64 to St. Louis. Rode old 66 all the way through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and the eastern Panhandle of Texas. Blew a tire east of Springfield, but a farmer helped get me back on my way. Came down the Panhandle through the Palo Duro Canyon, and headed to Lubbock, and from there southeast towards the Texas Hill Country. Hit a deer about 100 miles from home. Luckily only the radiator and hood were damaged.

I'm thinking of coming back to Raleigh via the Mississippi Delta and going through the Appalachains lengthwise. I have to say those are my two favorite regions of the South.

and now updated:

5/21/2008 3:12:18 PM

I want to do a 50cc so bad.

For those not familiar with long distance motorcycling, it's going coast to coast in 50 hours.

5/21/2008 3:19:20 PM

got mine planned... more or less.

May 24 2008 - Atlanta, Georgia
May 27 2008 - Birmingham, Alabama
May 28 2008 - Dallas, Texas
May 30 2008 - Dallas, Texas
May 31 2008 - Mcallen, Texas
Jun 2 2008 - Phoenix, Arizona
Jun 4 2008 - Las Vegas, Nevada
Jun 5 2008 - Los Angeles, California
Jun 6 2008 - Rosemead, California
Jun 7 2008 - San Francisco, California
Jun 9 2008 - Sacamento, California
Jun 10 2008 - Santa Cruz, California
Jun 14 2008 - Portland, Oregon
Jun 15 2008 - Seattle, Washington
Jun 17 2008 - Salt Lake City, Utah
Jun 19 2008 - Lincoln, Nebraska
Jun 20 2008 - Kansas City, Missouri
Jun 21 2008 - Springfield, Illinois
Jun 22 2008 - Lafayette, Indiana
Jun 23 2008 - Chicago, Illinois
Jun 25 2008 - New York, New York
Jun 26 2008 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 27 2008 - Raleigh, North Carolina
Jul 4 2008 - Atlanta, Georgia

5/21/2008 3:21:34 PM

Right on!

One of the first record transcontinental road trips was done in 1926 to help prove the validity of US 80 - which went from Savannah to San Diego. It wasn't all paved, but it was the first road that you could travel cross country all year long.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us80.htm

Quote :

"Ocean to Ocean on the Dixie Overland Highway Colonel Fletcher, in his memoirs, included an account of his record-breaking trip across country on the Dixie Overland Highway. The trip that I shall never forget was our race against time, from San Diego to Savannah, Georgia, October 20 to 23, 1926, under the auspices of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce. At that time there was only about 5% of the highway hard surfaced between the two points . . . . San Diego was fighting for a direct eastern national highway route and the first paved road from ocean to ocean. The directors of the Chamber of Commerce asked for publicity toward our demand for a national highway from San Diego to Savannah, Georgia . . . . I first got permission through highway friends from each State, County and City authority en route to break every speed law they had. I then prepared a schedule of date and hour and minute of arrival at each point, taking with me Ed Fletcher, Jr., Milton Jackson, LaVerne Kingsbury and G. E. Graves, our mechanic. The account of the trip, made in a Cadillac sedan with 17,000 miles on it, is from a brochure, issued by the Chamber of Commerce, about "Col. Fletcher's Record-Breaking Transcontinental Trip": On the afternoon of Tuesday, October 19th, the day before we started, our friend, Dean Blake, U.S. Weather Bureau, reported that a cyclone was developing around Puerto Rico and would strike Savannah, Georgia, by Saturday noon; that we would get a slight touch of rain in New Mexico from a storm working south from British Columbia, but otherwise the weather would be clear. We left at 4 o'clock in the morning of the 20th and had two hours of darkness, arriving in Yuma at 7:55; our time, San Diego to Phoenix, was 8 hours and 2 minutes, averaging 50 miles an hour. A large crowd met us in Phoenix, but in ten minutes we were off for Tucson. The Tucson speed cops showed us the way in and out of Tucson. Sure enough we got caught in the cloudburst which washed out bridges between Bisbee and Douglas but they suggested going by way of Benson and Willcox to Lordsburg. It was my only hope to keep us from quitting. Tucson friends telephoned and four horses were made available--fortunately we succeeded in being pulled across the San Pedro River near Willcox. We met bad weather and country roads through New Mexico but 10 miles from El Paso, we received a signal from the El Paso motor cops that gave a welcome very much appreciated. Twenty-four hours after leaving San Diego we arrived at Kent, Texas. We drove all day through Texas, city officials from Fort Worth met us but we went through that city at 55 miles an hour. At 6:30 P.M. the Dallas motor cops led the way into our garage for re-fueling. The crowds were enormous. It was estimated 2500 were there to meet us. We had made the fastest time ever made from the Pacific Coast to Dallas. [After a 46-minute stop for refueling, a shower and rubdown, and a dinner and 5-minute talk to the enthusiastic crowd] we were again on our way for Shreveport, Louisiana. To our utter amazement 300 people were waiting for us in Shreveport at 1.15 A.M. Then the run for 205 miles over dirt roads through the swamps of Louisiana to Vicksburg. Ed Jr., riding behind, really saved our lives for in the darkness one of our boys fell asleep driving. I was asleep but Ed Jr., grabbed the wheel just as we were going off the bank 15 feet into the swamps. The bank caved beneath us but the speed saved us. We arrived at Vicksburg at 7:55 and were delayed only five minutes for the ferry which took us across the Mississippi River, having beforehand made arrangement for same. A few moments stop at Jackson, a new guide, and we were off for Montgomery, Alabama, where we arrived at 6:25 P.M. Friday. A new guide showed up and we drove in two hours and 20 minutes over dirt road to Columbus, Georgia, where a mob of several hundred people, with tremendous enthusiasm, welcomed our arrival. We still had 278 miles to go to Savannah. As predicted by the weather bureau the clouds had gathered and everything indicated rain. If the rains had come our situation would have been hopeless for the last 150 miles were clay roads. Thank heaven it did not rain until after we arrived in Savannah. Fifteen miles out we were stopped by the city officials of Savannah at 2:45 A.M. and motor cops showed us into Savannah where we arrived at 3:15 A.M., making the trip across the continent, including all stops, in 71 hours 15 minutes--the fastest time ever made across the continent up to that time, a distance of 2535 miles. We beat the national record, ocean to ocean, by 11 hours and 56 minutes; we beat the fast passenger train by 28 hours. Thomas H. MacDonald, Chief of the BPR from 1919 to 1953 and one of Fletcher's many acquaintances, asked for a report on road conditions. This I did and within two months thereafter, to my happy surprise, through the efforts of Mr. MacDonald, the route that we traveled from San Diego to Savannah, Georgia, was officially created U.S. Highway No. 80 and for many years I was President of the U.S. No. 80 Highway Association fighting for its early completion. U.S. No. 80 was the first highway completed from ocean to ocean with Federal and State aid. Here, Fletcher is referring to the fact that AASHO approved the U.S. numbered system in November 1926, making designation of U.S. 80 official. The route, however, had been included in the October 1925 proposal by the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, so Fletcher's trip does not appear to have affected the decision. The claim that U.S. 80 was the first "completed" also is incorrect if the term means "paved" (Fletcher did not explain what he meant by the term). The first paved transcontinental road was U.S. 30 (Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Astoria, Oregon), the last paved segment of which, in Nebraska, was completed in November 1935."

I find it amazing that it took them only 72 hours back in the 20s.

5/21/2008 3:26:07 PM

ttt

8/1/2008 7:31:08 PM

It was on this stretch of road that made going out of the way worth it. That this road, probably unchanged since its original paving in the 30s is still there gave me such a feeling of disconnect. I loved it. This is Route 66 in Western Oklahoma. This is the road that millions took to find a better life. That black line down the middle is the original centre stripe, the road is narrower, and there only a few cars I saw in between the small towns that dot the barren landscape between Amarillo and Oklahoma City, but to know I was on the Mother Road was invigorating.

Some other favorite shots from my trip:

Just before leaving Raleigh:


Hairpin curve on US 421 near Shady Valley, TN:


A lone tree on a farm in Northeastern Oklahoma on 66:


A railroad overpassing 66 in far Western Oklahoma:


Me standing by the car on the border of Texas:


Looking across the Palo Duro Canyon:


For all the fans. This is in Lubbock:


My constant companion:


And what happens when a deer tries to outrun you:


And there was nothing I could do. I was going 70 (the limit in Texas) and had turned off my brights to not inconvenience somebody coming the other way, and was going to turn them on again. Swerving out of the way would have put me in more harm (the man who towed me told me he had towed someone the night before who swerved to not hit a deer and had rolled over, that by just hitting the deer, I did the right thing (and was pretty lucky that it didn't come through the windshield)).

8/2/2008 5:22:24 PM

what the hell? why would you wear a suit and hat on a road trip?

8/2/2008 5:24:20 PM

Because I can.

8/2/2008 5:25:06 PM

how much did gas cost?

8/2/2008 5:25:46 PM

can you link me to that map? i'd like to fill one out with my insane 8000+ mile road trip

i ended up doing the whole southern and western edges of the country

8/2/2008 5:28:58 PM

http://mob-rule.com/counties/

This website is what I use. You have to register, but it's very cool to put in places and such. It has road overlays for each state, so you don't have to remember the name of the county. There are people registered on there that have visited every last one of the 3141 counties of the United States. I've only been to about 705.

8/2/2008 5:32:43 PM

yeah i'd imagine i have more than that, but not too much more. i'm just basing this off the fact that most of the counties look like they're across the north central, and northeast states.

8/2/2008 5:38:39 PM

Yea, Georgia has almost 160 and Kentucky has almost 190 because they had slack laws regarding county forming. A lot of other states had counties that were carved out of larger counties. The Midwestern states were planned much more so than New England.

Quote :

"how much did gas cost?"

I filled up in Raleigh, Harlan, KY, Lynnville, IN, Bristow, OK, and Tulia, TX - at about $50 each tank, so $250 for 2000 miles worth of gas.

8/2/2008 5:46:05 PM

8/20/2008 9:55:52 PM

Updated by trip type.

8/21/2008 3:13:35 PM

http://tinyurl.com/56p4a4

Country roads, take me home. I need to do this (or at least Raleigh -> Wilkesboro and north from there) some weekend. It's a three-state highway - NC 16, VA 16, WV 16.

8/21/2008 8:36:37 PM

Hell yeah. I'm hittin the Appalachian trail this winter.

8/21/2008 8:38:05 PM

Good luck getting up there. Quite a few roads up there close in the winter.

8/21/2008 8:40:31 PM

Fuck. Maybe it's out to Kitty Hawk then. No better time than when there's nobody else out there.

8/21/2008 8:41:09 PM

YES

8/21/2008 9:00:00 PM

I'm a Roads Scholar.

8/26/2008 12:22:52 PM

9/26/2008 5:02:44 PM

I want to go drive out west again Its quite the experience to have seen both oceans, rockies, appalachians, great plains, salt flats, great lakes, the grand canyon, crossed the mississippi, a fogged in golden gate and the hoover dam all in 2 weeks.


It was real sad driving through Arizona/New Mexico/Texas along I40 (old Route 66). There are towns every 30-50 miles that were built up by Route 66, but I40 was paved bypassing the city, and they are all old and decrepit.

9/26/2008 6:26:36 PM

9/26/2008 6:27:49 PM

MARKO FTW

Quote :

"It was real sad driving through Arizona/New Mexico/Texas along I40 (old Route 66). There are towns every 30-50 miles that were built up by Route 66, but I40 was paved bypassing the city, and they are all old and decrepit."

Heh. For every town that has a bypass, there are two or three that are back to being just railroad depots.

I only drove 1/4 of 66, from Phillipsburg, MO to Conway, TX (~600 miles). Took me most of 2 days.

I didn't even begin to document it properly.

Only 90 pictures! Starting with:

http://picasaweb.google.com/chembobUSN/UploadI#5235686176196554402

But it's a strech of road I'll never forget. I found my "home" on the road, so to speak. Someday I'm gonna do the whole trip. Take out a week and half for that.

9/26/2008 6:57:08 PM

set em up

9/27/2008 9:34:46 AM