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Offline mapcat

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #690 on: February 20, 2022, 09:17:43 am »
Nice stats fortune today :)

100189.65 miles active
101896.56 miles active+preview

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Did you do that on purpose?
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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #691 on: February 20, 2022, 10:31:08 am »
Nice stats fortune today :)

100189.65 miles active
101896.56 miles active+preview

https://travelmapping.net/user/?u=michih
Did you do that on purpose?

No. I checked by stats on the traveler stats list and was totally confused that active and active+preview mileage is the very same. I read it again and again till I realized that it is just shifted by one "0" :) It will be gone with the next site update because I traveled some miles in my home region BY today. I'm over 98% for BW (~9,000mi) and over 80% for BY (~14,000mi) right now.

btw: I have more than 100,000 active miles now. And I recently managed to have more than 3,000 a+p routes clinched and more than 6,000 a+p routes traveled. I'm far away from being no. 1 but still :)

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #692 on: February 21, 2022, 08:26:24 pm »
Got some new miles in Tennessee over the President's Day weekend as wife and I travelled to Franklin to see a few sites before home via Lynchburg TN to see how they make Tennessee whiskey and taste some Jack.  Discovered a route that moved around Winchester TN, so provided an update as well in forum.  I had not been through that portion of Tennessee before and was impressed by the rolling terrain south of Nashville.  Very pretty country.

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #693 on: February 25, 2022, 11:59:58 am »
Last weekend I decided to do my MD/DE trip that I did not do in January because I realized that I would rather do it now than get stuck somewhere over the summer.

Highlights:
1.  Clinched all leftover TM mileage in Delaware with the exception of US 9 (US 13 to US 113, and the approach to the Cape May-Lewes Ferry)
2.  Used a few of these MD routes to help me in the lowest numbered route game.
3.  Clinched a lot of mileage around the MD 313 corridor and west of Ocean City.  (I did miss that section of MD 575 though.)
4.  Worked further on Baltimore and clinched the routes along the US 50/US 301 concurrency east of the Bay Bridge.
5.  Clinched multi-state routes MD/DE 16, MD/DE 300, and MD/DE 404.
6.  Also clinched the current alignment of US 9 TRUCK (Georgetown)/DE 404 TRUCK (Georgetown) (not mentioned below).

Maryland:
Clinched: MD 151, MD 150, MD 158, MD 157, MD 173, MD 178, MD 835 (well MD 835A), MD 8, MD 802, MD 18, MD 552, MD 404, MD 404 ALT (Hillsboro), MD 303, MD 16, MD 578, MD 817, MD 750, MD 335, MD 336, MD 343, MD 14, MD 348, MD 568, MD 367, MD 368, MD 610, MD 90, MD 589, MD 377, MD 376, MD 818, MD 611, MD 707 (West), MD 452, MD 575 (Friendship), MD 392, MD 318, MD 307, MD 306, MD 317, MD 480, MD 314, MD 287, MD 311, MD 454, MD 300, MD 330, MD 544, MD 290
New Mileage: US 40, MD 450, MD 213, MD 662, MD 309, MD 331, MD 346, MD 312, MD 302, MD 291

Delaware:
Clinched: DE 404, DE 16, DE 18, DE 23, DE 5, DE 5 ALT (Milton), DE 36, DE 24, DE 17, DE 20, DE 14, DE 12, DE 10, DE 10 ALT (Woodside), DE 8, DE 44, DE 300, DE 11, DE 42, DE 6,
New Mileage: US 9

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #694 on: February 25, 2022, 08:02:06 pm »
Just returned from my first business trip in almost 3 years.  Went to St Louis...

New clinches, in order:  US 36 (OH), US 40 (IL), I-70 (IL), US 36 (IL, IN), US 52 (OH)

New mileage:  US 250 (US 22 to US 36); tiny bit of MO 100; I-55 (Edwardsville to Springfield); OH 32 (OH 73 to US 50)

Picked up 13 new counties in the process...

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #695 on: February 26, 2022, 06:59:36 pm »
About a month ago, my wife and I took advantage of a long weekend to travel to the Florida panhandle. The real purpose was for both of us to complete the counties of Florida. As a side effect, I got some additional roadway.

Nothing new to/from Tallahassee, but to the west, mileage was added on FL 263, FL 20, US 231, US 98, FL 392 (clinched), FL 30, US 98 Bus (Pensacola), I-110 (clinched), FL 81 (clinched), FL 79, FL 368, FL 390, FL 327 (clinched), FL 391 (clinched), US 98 Bus (Panama City), US 319, and a few additional concurrencies.

No, I didn't clinch all of FL 30; due to the cold weather, we decided to stay in.

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #696 on: March 03, 2022, 11:43:36 pm »
I just got back from south Florida, returning the long way including several days in Alabama. My list file is up to date, except a really minor error that I'll take my time about fixing.

Most notable changes:

-- clinched all of US 43 and US 68

-- clinched all of US 45 south of I-40 (lots of gaps north of I-40)

-- reclinched US 13, US 90 (for a minor realignment east of Mobile, that I'm not sure was a de-clinch, but I happened to be down there anyway), and the usamd system

-- clinched everything in Florida east of I-95, except the Hart Street Expressway in Jacksonville, which is closed for reconstruction between downturn and TIAA Field (home of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars) and ultimately will remain a surface road where it passes by the stadium.

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #697 on: March 04, 2022, 02:45:01 pm »
-- clinched everything in Florida east of I-95, except the Hart Street Expressway in Jacksonville, which is closed for reconstruction between downturn and TIAA Field (home of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars) and ultimately will remain a surface road where it passes by the stadium.

I know it's a typo, but that's a fairly apt way to describe downtown Jacksonville.  Side note, I used to take the Hart Street Expressway every day on the way to school during the one semester of high school I lived in Florida.

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #698 on: March 04, 2022, 10:16:40 pm »
I'm missing about half the routes in Jacksonville, but missing just small section of 5A and a chunk of US 1 near New Smyrna Beach. Keep getting pulled off projects at the last minute from there for a variety of bizarre reasons.

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #699 on: March 20, 2022, 11:10:54 am »
Took an 18-hr U-turn yesterday...

New clinches, in order:  WV 150, WV 82, WV 129, WV 41, WV 305, WV 99, WV 971, WV 121

New mileage:  WV 39, WV 55, WV 20, WV 3, WV 10, WV 97

Reclinch:  VA 333?  It is now posted on a different road from what it used to be assigned to.  Rectangle posting only, so no effect on TM anyway.

WV 150 is an awesome drive.  WV 99 is very interesting - they dug out deep trenches in solid rock (example) to get this thing over to WV 85.
WV 82 is putrid

I also visited VA 358 - it appears the northeastern prong has been decommissioned.  VA 358 shield gone and an SR 880 marker is now at its intersection with VA 358.

I also visited VA 188 - some turns are no longer posted at all and some are missing signage in one direction or the other.


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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #700 on: March 20, 2022, 11:48:22 pm »
Just finished an 8-day trip to finish off the US highways east of the Mississippi. 441, 319, 221, 280, and 301 are clinched now, and I added miles on 82, 84, 90, and 190 to get to 100% in 7 more states. The 182 clinched US highways puts me in 1st place until Oscar gets home, so I'll enjoy that while I can.

I had wanted to clinch the Natchez Trace Parkway on the first day, but two things conspired against that. First, a section that has been closed since last fall still hasn't reopened. Originally I'd planned to get this route last December, but decided against it when I realized it wouldn't be fully open. After learning that it's not going to reopen anytime soon, I decided to get what I could and go back to pick up the detoured section after it reopened, since Columbus-Tupelo and back would make a good day trip. However, an unexpected March snowstorm added another twist. The day before I left, I contacted park HQ and asked how early it would be plowed, since I figured I'd get to Nashville around sunrise. The reply said they don't plow or treat the parkway, and strongly suggested I take another route. Seeing the storm in full force across Tennessee and north Mississippi as I left home, with lots of red lines on Google Maps along 65 & 40, I opted to circumvent the weather entirely and headed west along the Western Kentucky Pkwy and then took I-69 and 51 down to Memphis and 55 and 20 over to Louisiana, which added an hour or so to the trip but still allowed me to get everything in Louisiana I wanted and reach Lake Charles on the first night.

Everything else went as planned. From Lake Charles I finished US 90 & 190 in Louisiana plus US 90 in Mississippi & Alabama and part of Florida before popping up into SE Alabama to get 84 between Andalusia & Dothan. The next day I went back into Florida to finish off 90 & 319, then headed east on 84 again to Valdosta and down GA 94 to 441, which I took north to Athens. Day 4 took me from Athens to Spartanburg back to Valdosta (clinching 221 & 319 on the way) and east to Savannah for the night. The long next day took me west along a combination of 84 and 82 and 84 again to Alexandria, LA. After that I went northwest to Magnolia, AR and then east mostly on 82 to Montgomery. Day 7 was shorter and allowed me to clinch Alt 27 in west Georgia and 280, then begin finishing off 301 on the way to Columbia for the night and an Airbnb chosen mostly for its proximity to a donut place I'd been wanting to try. The final day included some driving around Columbia and finally completing the Eastern US highways when I reached the US 301/501 junction south of Latta, SC. From there I wandered over to Charlotte on some state highways and USBs and then headed directly home.

Overall I added just a little over 2800 miles, of which about 1900 was new US highway mileage (now 127,000), and 109 new clinches, mostly in Georgia & Louisiana (plus a few more in Mississippi that don't count yet). None of the roads was especially amazing (I agree with mapmikey 100% about WV 150) but fortunately all were in pretty good shape and traffic was agreeable.

Now time to figure out a plan to reclinch I-35...
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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #701 on: March 23, 2022, 03:56:23 pm »
I was just in Vegas and took the opportunity to clinch most of the Vegas area state highways. I didn't get a chance to do the two that take you to Mt. Charleston, but got almost everything urban.  Re-drove I-11 to see if they had put up any "Begin" or "End" signs, and I still saw nothin'. Some Future I-11 Corridor signs are up in Arizona about 2-3 miles in.

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #702 on: March 31, 2022, 09:51:13 am »
After attending the Natchez MS road meet on March 19, which Mark also went to, I kept going west (more or less) and am still on the road.

Last Saturday in south Texas (off my usual cross-country travel patterns) was a real clinch-a-thon. I started the day with US 57, going from almost zero to 100% on that obscure but busy ~100-mile route from I-35 to the Mexican border. Then to Laredo, to re-clinch I-35, and to Brownsville, to re-clinch I-169. Those re-clinches bring me back to 100% of usai, at least until North Carolina does its thing with I-885, I-840, and I-295. 

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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #703 on: March 31, 2022, 10:08:22 am »
Last Saturday in south Texas (off my usual cross-country travel patterns) was a real clinch-a-thon.

Those are the best days!

Curious about your experience at the border for 57. How well is everything working there now?

I hope the rest of your travels will net you at least 26.07 new miles.
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Re: New Travels and Stats Discussion
« Reply #704 on: March 31, 2022, 10:27:33 am »
Curious about your experience at the border for 57. How well is everything working there now?

I didn't drive across the border this time, was getting tired of the time-consuming vehicle searches and expensive short-term Mexican auto insurance policies (non-Mexican policies don't work at all in Mexico, unlike with the Canadian border). So I just parked my car in a public lot next to the U.S. border station, and walked the rest of the way (the bridge crossing the border has two pedestrian walkways, right next to vehicle traffic). Short pedestrian line at the U.S. border station. No hassles.