I went down to my parents' house this weekend mainly to watch the Daytona 500 at my friend's house. While it was so close but yet so far for my driver, it was not that way in regard to my personal clinching accomplishments.
Day 1- Friday, February 17, 2023 (Harrisburg, PA, to Prince George, VA, via Virginia Beach, VA, and northeastern NC)
I left around 1 AM to get to Delaware ASAP to check out the US 9 TRUCK Construction in Georgetown (saw the reference on the streetblade at Arrow Safety Rd) and make sure that I am good with truncating DE 30. Hence that is why I took I-283 SB to PA 283 EB to US 30 EB to PA 41 SB to DE 7 SB to DE 1 SB (well you saw the thread by now) to US 113 SB. After checking out the former DE 30 signage from its west end to the split with DE 24 northeast of Millsboro (via DE 24 and DE 54, I did not travel the previous solo portion of Millsboro Hwy), it was back to US 113 SB to go into MD to get MD 575 (Showell) clinched to get 100% in MD in regard to Travel Mapping. From there, it was just US 113 SB to US 13 SB to US 60 EB (in VA Beach) to VA 279 SB (driving W Great Neck Rd, which I believe was a former alignment) to US 58 WB. I then drove the entire main Lynnhaven Pkwy/Volvo Pkwy corridor to VA 168 BUS (Chesapeake). (Yes, I know that Volvo Pkwy technically continues briefly west of VA 168 BUS.) Then I drove VA 168 BUS NB to I-64 to checkout the New High Rise Bridge (turning around at Exit 296, with the new bridge being higher than the old one, both directions feel like different roads). Then as the rain came, it was generally US 17 SB to NC 45 SB to NC 308 EB to NC 37 NB to NC 137 WB to US 158 WB to NC/VA 46 NB (with some turnarounds due to gaps) to I-85 NB towards my parents' house. All I will say here is that it will be a while before the US 158 reroute/four-laning at I-95 is complete.
Clinched: MD 575 (Showell), NC 37, NC 149, US 17 BUS (Hertford, NC), NC 137, NC/VA 46
New Mileage: US 17 (NC), NC 45, NC 308, US 64 (NC), US 13 (NC), US 158 (NC), NC 305
Day 2-Saturday, February 18, 2023-Prince George, VA, to Lexington, NC, and back
This day was another Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ (SCNB) trip with my mom, and the rain completely stayed away.
To start it was I-85 SB to US 401 SB to NC 58 SB to NC 561 WB (to finish the western portion of this route as I had intended to in December) back to US 401 SB (to check out the all but complete widening project) to NC 96 SB to Zebulon (where I got in a bit of trouble as it was one of four SCNB locations I passed before we stopped for lunch). After the NC 231 loop, it was NC 222 EB to NC 42 WB (to check out another all but complete widening project, SCNB locations in Clayton (one along NC 42 just west of Buffalo Rd and another along the current US 70 BUS/NC 42 Concurrency) and Garner (at I-40 Exit 312) were passed without stopping) to secondary routes up to US 64 at its intersection with NC 751. From there, it was US 64 WB to Siler City to stop for lunch at SCNB (after sneaking in a US 64 BUS (Pittsboro) loop).
Then it was US 64 WB (no looping after the Asheboro Bypass) to US 29 SB in Lexington to get to I-85 SB so that I could truly clinch the Yadkin River Bridge that was replaced in the mid-2000s after I originally clinched I-85 in NC in 2002. Then it was I-85 NB back to US 29 NB (along I-85 BL) to Greensboro before looping around the city to get US 220 north of I-73 and a full clinch of the recently opened I-840. I got back on I-40 at Exit 212 briefly to then drive Wendover Ave (Future US 70) and its substandard freeway/arterial through Greensboro back to US 29 NB. Then it was US 29 NB to Danville (looping to clinch US 29 BUS (Danville, VA) and VA 293) then VA 360 EB to US 360 EB to VA 40 EB to US 460 BUS (Blackstone) EB to US 460 EB back towards my parents' house. (I will not get started on how I feel about whether I got mileage on VA 86 or not.)
Clinched: NC 231, US 64 BUS (Pittsboro, NC), I-840 (NC), US 29 BUS (Danville, VA), VA 293, VA 360
New Mileage: NC 561, NC 96, NC 222, US 64 (NC), NC 87, NC 902, NC 49, NC 22, US 29 (NC), US 70 (NC), US 52 (NC), I-285 (NC), US 220 (NC), US 158 (NC), VA 41, VA 40
Sunday and Monday (Days 3-4) had no new mileage as Sunday I visited my grandma and then my friend to watch the Daytona 500, and Monday was mainly a documentation trip along US 301, I-97, MD 32, MD/PA 97, and US 15 with a detour along Billingsley Rd and St. Charles Pkwy to bypass Waldorf on the way back to Harrisburg, PA.