My
Charlotte Meet Trip Report has been completed.
Secondly, I also attended the SWPA 25 Meet last weekend. I basically drove out there via US 22 to check out the construction on PA 981 between PA 31 and PA 130, and then took PA 819 SB to US 119 SB to Uniontown to PA 21 WB to Masontown to complete PA 166. I then took US 119 SB to Point Marion taking PA 88 NB to ultimately clinch that route. (I bypassed the section between US 40 and PA 136 via PA 43 to save time.) From PA 43 NB, I took PA 136 EB back to PA 88 NB to PA 51 SB. I exited at Lebanon Church Rd towards McKeesport ending up at PA 148 to take that south to PA 48 taking that north to Luciano's (the lunch restaurant for the meet, I still did not make it until 11:30 AM).
The meet itself basically focused on the construction of the extension of PA 43 north to PA 837 south of the Monongahela River. After that portion of the tour, some of us went to see the Elizabeth Bridge (PA 51), Boston Bridge (PA 48), and the rebuilt Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh.
After seeing all of that (some of it in light rain, some of it in heavier rain), I came back home basically by following US 30 east to Breezewood (clinching many Lincoln Hwy segments as I headed east, one of which is actually on
Fred Rogers Dr) and then taking I-76 EB to Carlisle (to try to avoid more rain and fog) to US 11 NB to I-81 NB back to Harrisburg.
Clinched: PA 166, PA 88
New Mileage: Lincoln Highway (PA, west of Bedford now clinched)