I recently went to Arizona for my friends' wedding, and I decided that it was time to finally get quite a bit of mileage away from the eastern states.
I will be posting this in three parts (Part 1-Heading to Arizona, Part 2-In Arizona, Part 3-Coming Back From Arizona).
Highlights on the way to Arizona include:
1. Full clinch of I-44 (for some reason Google Maps thinks that it is closed due to construction at the US 75 Interchange in Tulsa when that is not the case, it is just in an odd configuration at the moment)
2. Almost a full clinch of I-64 (see below).
3. Completed I-79 in WV.
4. Clinched US 380 west of FM 926 (near TX 251)
5. Drove the I-65 Ohio River Bridge as a consolation prize for not being able to complete I-64.
Clinched: PA 747, PA 913, PA 326, MD 49, MD 658, MD 53, MD 636, I-79 (WV), WV 193, I-64 (MO/IL/IN), MO 364, I-170 (MO), I-44 (TX/OK/MO-full clinch), I-44 BL (Mount Vernon, MO), MO 39 BUS (Mount Vernon), OK 130, TX Spur 447, TX Spur 213, TX Loop 473, TX 251, US 380 (NM), NM 254, I-25 BL (Socorro, NM)
New Mileage: PA 655, PA 26, US 220 (MD), *I-64 (KY), I-65 (KY/IN), US 150 (IN), IN 62, I-57 (IL), **IL 15, US 50 (MO/IL), I-55 (MO/IL), US 40 (MO/IL), IL 3, US 61 (MO), I-70 (MO), MO 94, US 67 (MO), I-270 (MO), I-44 BL (Pacific, MO), MO 39, I-49 (MO), US 71 (MO), MO 43, US 412 (OK), OK 66, I-35 (OK), OK 3, US 62 (TX/OK), OK 37, US 277 (TX/OK), OK 76, US 281 (TX/OK), US 287 (TX), US 82 (TX), TX 79, TX 240, US 287 BUS (Wichita Falls, TX), US 380 (TX), US 83 (TX), TX 70, TX 208, US 84 (TX), US 385 (TX), NM 256, US 70 (NM), I-25 (NM), US 60 (NM)
*Not clinched due to closure between I-71 and I-264 in Louisville. I should have just done this when I was already there to clinch I-71 the day before the Cleveland Meet last month…
**Not enough mileage to put in my list file
Part 2: (In Arizona)
Highlights Include:
1. Clinches of I-17 and I-19.
2. Completing US 60 east of US 93 (continous clinch continues to I-25 in Socorro, NM).
3. Clinching what currently exists of the Phoenix Freeway system.
4. Clinching AZ 64 and seeing the west end of US 180 as part of visiting the Grand Canyon.
Clinched: AZ 210, I-19 BL (Nogales), I-19, AZ 189, I-17, AZ 89, I-40 BL (Ash Fork), I-40 BL (Williams), AZ 64, I-40 BL (Flagstaff), AZ 79 BUS (Florence), I-8 BL (Gila Bend), Sky Harbor Blvd, AZ 143, AZ 202, AZ 24, AZ 101, AZ 51, AZ 303, Northern Pkwy, AZ 177, I-10 BL (Willcox)
New Mileage: US 60, US 180, US 191, AZ 77, AZ 260, I-10, AZ 83, AZ 82, US 93, I-40, US 89, AZ 89A, *AZ 79, AZ 287, I-8, AZ 85, AZ 186
*Barely missed clinch due to hanging end north of US 60 (
https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=4593.0)
On the stats side, I clinched 1643.68 miles in Arizona alone. That gives me more mileage in Arizona than other states I regularly traverse including NJ (currently 1574.34), WV (1234.14), and DE (765.65, though only has 1102.45 miles in total). Of these three states, I will only be adding mileage in WV on the return trip, but it will not be enough to catch up to AZ.