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mapcat:
Spring Break! Last week was a perfect opportunity for an 8-day, 4400-mile drive around Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, with the goal of clinching them all. Thought I did, until I got home and discovered MD 219 had materialized while I was away. Should be able to take care of that later this week.

Other than almost constant rain the first day, and scattered flooding that day and the next, the weather was almost perfect. Record highs in the 70s in Philly on Friday. Construction season was not yet in full swing, at least along my route, so the drive was mostly easy.

Highlights were DE 100 and 92 through the Brandywine Valley, a short visit to Gateway National Recreation Area (too cold and windy for much recreation, but good for a nice view of NYC), a walk-clinch of the realignment of DE 23 & 1D, which are paved but not yet open to traffic, and plenty of pizza, cheesesteaks, hoagies, and innovative donuts. No real lowlights, although if I never have the opportunity to visit North Philadelphia again, I won't complain. My last real route clinched in PA (i.e., not a temporary truck route likely to disappear soon) was PA 282, a lovely slow twisty drive at the edge of Amish Country. It should be gorgeous in a week or so when the trees start flowering.

Total new mileage: 2181, almost evenly split among the four states, lifting me past 350,000 miles overall
New clinches: 208 (84 in MD, 43 in DE, 39 in NJ, and 42 in PA), pushing my total over 10,000

CoreySamson:
Yesterday I drove back to college from home (Houston -> Tulsa) as the end to my spring break, and in the process I had a roadgeeking day that I don't think I will surpass for a while. I generally took US 59 and US 259 on the trip from Houston to Sallisaw, OK, and then I used I-40, OK 72, and US 64 from there to Tulsa. I passed the 10,000 mile milestone. I also clinched 15 routes, which is my most ever clinched in a single day. Here they are in order of clinching:

- TX Loop 494
- TX Loop 573
- TX Loop 424
- TX Loop 393
- US 59 Business (Livingston)
- TX Loop 116
- TX Loop 177
- TX Loop 210
- TX Loop 266 (posthumously)
- TX Loop 224
- US 259
- US 59 Bypass (Poteau)
- US 271 Bypass (Poteau)
- I-40 Business (Sallisaw)
- OK 72

As an aside, I also clinched 3 counties and set a new record for my longest clinched multi-state route (US 259).

Jim:
My travels on the just-completed conference (plus ski day) trip to Portland, Oregon, where I drove over 200 TM-mappable miles.  I had been to the area a few times before, so new overall travels were pretty limited, adding just over 50 miles.

New travels:
- finished off US 30 Bypass in Portland (was missing all east of I-205)
- closed a 9-mile US 26 gap in the eastern part of Portand and in Gresham.
- several new miles on OR 99E, OR 213
- first travels on OR 224, OR 281, OR 282 (clinched)
- added the OR 35 segment on the bridge to Washington
- some new miles on WA 14
- first travels on WA 141, WA 141 Alt (clinched)

So not too much, but this trip had some pretty hard constraints and there wasn't an opportunity for much more.

Markkos1992:
I have finally completed my Atlanta Meet Trip Report. 

I also did a trip on March 16th to view the ongoing Berkeley Springs Bypass Construction for US 522 in WV and clinch the now posted MD 219. 

ntallyn:
Took a day trip with the family to Savannah, and wandered around a little bit to get a few roads I didn't already have.

Clinched Veterans Parkway and I-516, and added a little bit to GA 21, but turned one block early to get the rest of that missing section. Leaving town, I added a bit of US 80, GA 21 Alt (Port Wentworth), GA 25 (clinched), GA 26, GA 26 Con (Garden City), and GA 307.

On the CHM side of things, I expect to get to my backlog of GA route updates at some point in April.

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