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« Last post by oscar on Yesterday at 03:59:55 pm »
Just got back home from a ~two-week road trip to Minneapolis, for an aunt's memorial service. The outbound trip was three relaxed driving days, on already-traveled Interstates, though I did work in a clinch of short WI 312 in Eau Claire.
After the service, I drove to southern Iowa, to clinch IA 92 Business (Knoxviile) and IA 1. The latter long frustrated me, hung up by a long construction closure of a one-mile segment in Fairfield. That was supposed to be done by May 31, but the project was completed ahead of schedule, perhaps to provide a detour for work on Business 34 in Fairfield, which I had already clinched. I also clinched IA 122 in Mason City, and closed up some gaps in other northern Iowa routes.
From there, I continued to an outer suburb of St. Louis, to dodge bad weather forecast for Iowa. Good thing, Iowa got whacked hard after I left, while northern Missouri was in the forecast tornado danger zone but wound up almost completely unscathed while I was out there. In northern Missouri, I focused on re-clinching counties, in the only lower-48 state where I've not re-clinched all the counties after I completed all the U.S. counties in 2010. I'm still missing some counties in southern Missouri, which I plan to cover in a separate trip. Aside from the county re-clinches, I clinched US 136 Business in Memphis (MO), US 36 Business in Monroe City, and MO 168.
From Missouri, a three-day mostly-Interstate return trip home. While I tried hard to avoid bad weather in the Midwest, I overlooked the torrential rains and thunderstorms awaiting me back home late yesterday evening. That made the last 30 miles of my trip really slow and unpleasant.
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