although Our Man in Highgate Springs
FYI, we simply call that Highgate.OK, I was just going by what CBP called it.
And I think I know why the border crossing agents "liked" you. You were out of state. Because I'm not, I have yet to have a border crossing between QC and NY/VT/NH last longer than 45 seconds.Mostly I get the same treatment, and the only delay is the queue. Of the eight crossings I've made so far this year (all at different ports), I've been waved through after about three questions and 30 seconds six times.
Meanwhile, new additions have pushed me back under 10% for active+preview, with no travel imminent to bring me back up.It was going to happen anyway, but I'm pretty sure michih put a system to preview a couple of days before finishing the system just because of this thread's OP and putting an end to your 10+% figure ASAP.
Meanwhile, new additions have pushed me back under 10% for active+preview, with no travel imminent to bring me back up.It was going to happen anyway, but I'm pretty sure michih put a system to preview a couple of days before finishing the system just because of this thread's OP and putting an end to your 10+% figure ASAP.
Impressive numbers for @mapcat, now at 31.4% of our active mileage. Wow.
Rank Username ActiveMiles Active% PreviewMiles Preview%
1 mapcat 193715.29 31.44% 197206.58 23.91%
2 oscar 189021.63 30.68% 201423.44 24.42%
3 vespertine 168141.30 27.29% 171585.30 20.80%
Here's the 100k club. Active mileage is more North American-centric.
I don't think that your table proves your assumption. I've also clinched 4.12% in active but 3.78% in preview+active systems only. Your stats is 1.39% compared to 1.07%.More North American-centric doesn't mean a lack of routes in Europe. And while there's a large amount of preview-level routes in Central Europe, they are outweighed by routes further east - China has over 50,000 miles worth just on its own.
I fight for 4% but I will go on a 2-week-travel soon :) I thought about Belgium* but I guess I'll avoid that country for any reason...There's a country that's nice and cheap at the moment, and has a big dense network that you've not started on (http://tm.teresco.org/user/region.php?u=michih&rg=ENG)...
I fight for 4% but I will go on a 2-week-travel soon :) I thought about Belgium* but I guess I'll avoid that country for any reason...There's a country that's nice and cheap at the moment, and has a big dense network that you've not started on (http://tm.teresco.org/user/region.php?u=michih&rg=ENG)...
outside of EuropeMight be a bit more believeable without the driving in non-EU Switzerland. ;)
I'm only familar with European roads and don't wanna drive in exotic regions :D
I'll go to CHE...
Here's the 100k club. Active mileage is more North American-centric.Code: [Select]Rank Username ActiveMiles Active% PreviewMiles Preview%
1 mapcat 193715.29 31.44% 197206.58 23.91%
2 oscar 189021.63 30.68% 201423.44 24.42%
3 vespertine 168141.30 27.29% 171585.30 20.80%
I've started detailed planning today. I'll start around LUX and I'll go to FRA and CHE... Maybe I can clinch another 4,000mi and reach 4.2%...
I'm off to Youngstown and Cleveland this weekend to clinch the last 16 miles of Interstates in Ohio ...
I noticed a new user Yasubee_Horibe is (I believe) our first to mark mileage as clinched in North Korea.
nor do I know how any user who has access to this site would be able to travel there.I found an article stating that in January of 2010, North Korea changed its policy to allow U.S. travelers to visit on official guided tours any time of the year.
I had one moment of confusion as I tried to complete my clinch of HI92 at the entrance to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. I had planned to drive as close to the gate as possible without entering, but the way the traffic cones were arranged, I had no choice but to go through the gate. Luckily, I work for the DoD and had my government ID on me, so I showed it to the guard and drove right in. Having no reason to be on an active military base, I quickly found a place to turn around and leave. On the plus side, I can safely say I clinched the entire route. ;D
On a separate note, I flew over to Kalaupapa on Molokai. Didn't collect any routes there, but I can now say I've visited Kalaweo County. County collectors will understand. :)
Excellent! Who's leading the tours there? Gloria Marks took over after her husband (who led the tour I took in 1999) passed away. I hope she is still alive and well, and still able to lead the tours.
Also, any photos of the "unwelcome" sign exiting the airport, warning it is against the law to visit Kalaupapa without a state permit? My webpage on Kalawao County (http://www.hawaiihighways.com/photos-Kalawao.htm) has a quarter-century-old photo of the airport exit sign.
Also, any photos of the "unwelcome" sign exiting the airport, warning it is against the law to visit Kalaupapa without a state permit? My webpage on Kalawao County (http://www.hawaiihighways.com/photos-Kalawao.htm) has a quarter-century-old photo of the airport exit sign.
Also, any photos of the "unwelcome" sign exiting the airport, warning it is against the law to visit Kalaupapa without a state permit? My webpage on Kalawao County (http://www.hawaiihighways.com/photos-Kalawao.htm) has a quarter-century-old photo of the airport exit sign.
Turns out I did photograph the sign, though only in the context of a larger view of the area. It's probably too small to read, but the white sign on the right side of the road saysNO ENTRY BEYOND
THIS POINT WITHOUT
A VISITOR PERMIT
VIOLATORS ARE
SUBJECT TO ARREST
HRS 326-39
So we decided to head back to our condo near Napili via Hwy 340 around the northern part of the island, on a route that is far more curvy, far narrower (it was the width of a driveway at one point), but far more scenic than the road to Hana since it hugged the coastline more. (of course, that freaked my mom out more being on the edge of the cliff) Unfortunately, since most of that highway is just a county road and not a state highway (makes sense, right?), it's not going to show up as a complete loop on the map here.
I noticed a new user Yasubee_Horibe is (I believe) our first to mark mileage as clinched in North Korea.
The user has even clinched 100% of our routes drafted in North and South Korea: http://tm.teresco.org/user/?u=Yasubee_Horibe.
This same user has now clinched all highways in Morocco. I do not believe any other user has any highways marked as clinched in Morocco.And Senegal, Tunisia and Gabon.
Wow, we have a traveler who has clinched Mexico. Just by one vacation?!
Not sure it it will enough to put me over 100,000 in the "active and preview systems" column.
Not sure it it will enough to put me over 100,000 in the "active and preview systems" column.
99993.87 :)
However, you're log file still indicates 4 errors (and an "Incorrect format line: ")
Once I correct the last couple errors from my most recent trip, I will cross the 100,000 mile mark on the active and preview systems. :)
As for that "Incorrect format line: ," I've got a hidden character that I can't figure out how to remove. ??? I've left it as a blank line at the beginning of my file. At least that that way it doesn't mess up anything else in my list.
Once I correct the last couple errors from my most recent trip, I will cross the 100,000 mile mark on the active and preview systems. :)
As for that "Incorrect format line: ," I've got a hidden character that I can't figure out how to remove. ??? I've left it as a blank line at the beginning of my file. At least that that way it doesn't mess up anything else in my list.
Congratulations in advance!
For the hidden character, how do you maintain your .list? It shouldn't be that difficult to remove.
@bejacob, I'll email you a completely plain-text version of your file you can use as a baseline for future updates. I'd recommend editing in something like Notepad++ instead of Word. Yours was one of the few list files in the repository that wasn't plain ascii, but fortunately didn't contain any characters that caused the site update process to choke.
@bejacob, I'll email you a completely plain-text version of your file you can use as a baseline for future updates. I'd recommend editing in something like Notepad++ instead of Word. Yours was one of the few list files in the repository that wasn't plain ascii, but fortunately didn't contain any characters that caused the site update process to choke.
Thanks. I'll use that to fix the issue.
to I-35 south of Olathe; first TM user to clinch US 56
I decided to go on a three-hour drive this afternoon and clinch ON 23 and ON7Wat (the first user for both of these). The weather was to good to pass up the opportunity :)Your post reminded me to check and see that I'm the only driver for ME188. :)
Your post reminded me to check and see that I'm the only driver for ME188. :)Think we need a new topic for routes for which we're the only driver? I've got a few of those too. ;)
Your post reminded me to check and see that I'm the only driver for ME188. :)Think we need a new topic for routes for which we're the only driver? I've got a few of those too. ;)
In any case, I think we need to come up with a term for it.
I decided to go on a three-hour drive this afternoon and clinch ON 23 and ON7Wat (the first user for both of these). The weather was to good to pass up the opportunity :)Your post reminded me to check and see that I'm the only driver for ME188. :)
I decided to go on a three-hour drive this afternoon and clinch ON 23 and ON7Wat (the first user for both of these). The weather was to good to pass up the opportunity :)Your post reminded me to check and see that I'm the only driver for ME188. :)
I've got a couple of those lurking in Wyoming. WYO 77 and WYO 196.
I maintain my list in a MS Word (2013) file. Ever since I found a workaround for the hidden character issue, I haven't worried about fixing the problem. I suppose I should deal with it at some point. Maybe now is the time.
I just use regular Notepad. Much simpler.
Bur car problems on days 9 and 10 (including apparent recurrence of one of last summer's problems) leave the second an open question. I'll wait until the mechanics are done fixing my car, before planning additional travels for this year.Rent one!
Bur car problems on days 9 and 10 (including apparent recurrence of one of last summer's problems) leave the second an open question. I'll wait until the mechanics are done fixing my car, before planning additional travels for this year.Rent one!
Good to know your vision has recovered.
Heading to Aruba for a few days. At the moment, I'm one of only 3 users to have any mileage logged in the region, though currently 3rd out of 3. If all goes well, I will clinch all the routes on the island.
I just got back from a trip to Yellowstone, picking up over 3,000 new miles! On the way back to Milwaukee, I became the first user to clinch US18! I was surprised to see that no one had clinched US18 in South Dakota yet, and as of right now, I am the only user that has clinched the longest highway in South Dakota, US18.Dang it! Oh well, I'll get it sometime.
http://tm.teresco.org/hb/?units=miles&u=quidditch33&r=sd.us018 (http://tm.teresco.org/hb/?units=miles&u=quidditch33&r=sd.us018)
How was Pine Ridge and surroundings (Oglala Lakota, Bennett, and Todd counties)? Despite being from the area, I've never had a reason to go that way. That area might be the reason no one had clinched 18 yet (just speculating as a local).I was going to put this in my trip log, but I decided not to. I will tell you anyway. Driving through the Pine Ridge area(and clinching SD407), we got a lot of looks from the locals. I am just a little glad our car did not break down. US18 was under road construction from Big Foot Trail to SD391, and because of the lack of signage, I missed the turn for SD391 and was unable to clinch it(I'll clinch it eventually). After Batesland, there were almost no cars on the road until Winner. Another thing I would like to point out is when you are heading south on US385 and SD79, and east on US18, you will eventually turn off of the four-line highway going east onto a road, and the road was basically empty. I saw maybe one or two cars from Oelrichs to Pine Ridge. It is so empty out there.
So it is sketchy!How was Pine Ridge and surroundings (Oglala Lakota, Bennett, and Todd counties)? Despite being from the area, I've never had a reason to go that way. That area might be the reason no one had clinched 18 yet (just speculating as a local).I was going to put this in my trip log, but I decided not to. I will tell you anyway. Driving through the Pine Ridge area(and clinching SD407), we got a lot of looks from the locals. I am just a little glad our car did not break down.
As you can tell, I love being in South Dakota. Something about the friendliness of the locals and the wide open areas just makes me feel like I want to be there. I try to convince my parents all the time to drive out to South Dakota, and in March of this year I convinced them to drive to Sioux City and then up to Sioux Falls. A side trip allowed me to clinch SD42, SD17, and parts of SD44 and SD37.West River (mainly the Black Hills) is the best side. If you haven't been to Rapid or Spearfish yet, you really should.
After Batesland, there were almost no cars on the road until Winner.That's normal. Traffic where I live is having to wait at a stop sign.
West River (mainly the Black Hills) is the best side. If you haven't been to Rapid or Spearfish yet, you really should.I have been to that side of South Dakota twice. Once in 2015 to go see Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse, and in 2016 I slept in Spearfish on the way to Missoula, Montana. I love the Black Hills(even though I have never been south of Crazy Horse), and with the 80 mph speed limits, South Dakota is definitely my state of choice when it comes to driving across the Great Plains.
80 MPH? Is this relatively recent? I clinched SD I-90 back in September 2013.Yes (http://www.startribune.com/south-dakota-sends-speed-limits-shooting-up-to-80-mph/298403081/), South Dakota became the furthest east state with a 80 mph freeway speed in March of 2015.
Looking for a new (to me) and traffic-avoiding way from Ashburn, Virginia, to I-81 south yesterday, I ended up taking a variety of roads to Warrenton (avoiding accidents and other backups on US 15) then took US 211 end-to-end across to I-81. Definitely not faster than other options, but a whole lot more scenic, and it will give me just my third US highway clinched in its entirety, following US 163 and US 199.
SR 601 from the US 15/VA 234 junction to The Plains is also quite scenic. And quiet.
Instead of your route, when I typically headed out to Luray or points beyond, I'd take I-66 to the west end of Marshall, then take SR 647 to SR 635 to US 522 and down to US 211. There are some great views along SR 635.
80MPH? That's so damn slow.... :DI go 80 and routinely get passed so...
For me, to clinch a border-crossing highway, you need to drive the route across the border
On the next site update, my Ohio gap in I-75 will be filled in, and I'll have all of it from Detroit to Miami. Still a few holes in Michigan.
@bejacob: Welcome to the club!
Wow. That's about 20 months' worth of travel for me. What's your oil change interval? (I use Mobil 1 5W-30, changed every 25k.)
My car just hit 201k, and outside of the AC dying, it's running fine. Debating whether I'll have time to clinch the new US 20 bypass on Saturday though.
As this was a family vacation, I made almost no attempt to clinch additional mileage, so covered only slightly more than was absolutely necessary while touring the countryside.You didn't do the tiny little bit to visit Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch station? You went through Llanfair PG (as it is on road signs), but didn't clinch the bit of A5 next to the station.
At least you did Pont Grog y Borth - the supreme roadgeek feature of the area (and possibly the country, given the Severn Bridge is wholly in England).
It was a great trip and had I been there by myself, I probably would have driven more and seen less. ;) Sound familiar to anyone?"OH NO NO NEVER!" -Eric Idle
Next trip planned (unless a jury duty summons for next week unexpectedly results in my serving on a long trial) will take me southwest to Texas and back later this month.
Next trip I have planned outside the area is to North Carolina in April. What, if anything, I'm able to add will probably depend on who's driving (it's a group trip).
I drove NJ 57 end to end, ... Then clinched tiny NJ 182Wh-- ...Why does this exist?
I drove NJ 57 end to end, ... Then clinched tiny NJ 182Wh-- ...Why does this exist?
182 is a short route connecting US 46 to 57 and old 24. In the 1927 numbering, 24 went from Phillipsburg to Newark via Morristown. The alignment near Hackettstown used the old Washington Turnpike via Pleasant Grove. S24 split from 24 at Penwell and went to Hackettstown. When the routes were renumbered in 1953, NJDOT abandoned the idea of ever building 24 via Pleasant Grove, and rerouted 24 via S24 to the south edge of Hackettstown, and then south to Schooleys Mountain on the originally planned route. The bit of S24 north of what was now 24 became 57.
On 10/9/1969, the routes were renumbered again. 24 was truncated to only go east of Hackettstown on county roads, and 57 was reassigned to state-maintained 24 west of Hackettstown. The road that had been 57 became 182, since 57 was planned to continue east as a bypass of Hackettstown. That bypass has died, but the 182 number remains. The entire route is multiplexed with CR 517.
57 runs east-northeast from Phillipsburg, and contains the first stretch of concrete pavement in the Western hemisphere (one mile of it in Warren County, built in 1912). Pre-GR, it was 24 west of Penwell and S24 east of Penwell. At the GR, this all became part of 24, and 57 used what is now 182 (formerly S24). On 10/9/1969, former 57 became 182 and 57 was designated along its current alignment. 57 does not extend along 182 because it was planned to extend east on a Hackettstown bypass to US 46, which is a divided highway for that very reason.
Last week's vacation officially puts me on the board in Hawaii, which makes its debut for me at #7 in active and preview mileage with 12.05%. The mileage, all on Oahu, includes clinches of Interstates H2 and H201 (but not H1, of which I missed a two-mile segment in east Honolulu) and state routes 72, 80, 8930 (why a four-digit number? it seems like Oahu has plenty of two- and three-digit ones available), and 93. I probably would have clinched 95 if I'd known it was there (I drove part of it and don't remember it being signed) and was close enough to the end of 930 that I should have finished it off too. Oh well.
If 8930 doesn't feel urban now, it will soon, with rapid growth in the Kapolei "second city" area.
I use it, however it doesn't register new highways until after I arrive at my destination. I just recently drove from Jacksonville, FL to my home in Grovetown, GA (about five hours). I have been trying to take different routes nearly every time I have driven between both cities. When I got home, it kept dinging at me, over and over and over. I'm at 585 and 56 (don't know which icon and number) means what.If you leave it running while you drive, your score should increase within a few seconds of reaching a new route, unless your phone loses its signal.
FIBs?Derogatory term for Northern Illinois. "Fucking Illinois Bastards". Stereotyped as maniac driver and road rage.
Something I was pondering recently....am I the "most traveled" member who's married? I know Oscar isn't married but I was curious about the others who have more mileage than me.
Already booked the 12-hour bus tour for Denali, so maybe ParkRd as well. Can't wait.
Already booked the 12-hour bus tour for Denali, so maybe ParkRd as well. Can't wait.
You'll be ahead of me.
If my calculations are correct....after a marathon 16-hour trip today, I've fully completed New Hamsphire. Beat DTP to the punch (unless he snuck in a list update in the past day-and-a-half).
Thinking about possibly heading down to Florida again later this month and maybe looking at picking up I-75 south of the Turnpike, which I don't have yet.
But 14km of new all-season highway is being built in Norman Wells (I spent two nights there, and checked out one end of the construction site), which at some point might be added to NT 1, so the NT highway system is still a bit of a moving target.And here we are (or at least I am) worrying about clinches frustrated by detours and de-clinches from bypasses hundreds of miles away from home. :P :o
Just back from Alaska. I have now driven/traveled highway segments in all 50 states (plus a few other countries).Congrats! How many
Added just over 500 miles including the entirety of Park Road in Denali NP. Twelve hours for a RT clinch of about 90 miles, but I made it to the end of the road. :) Covered part of AK1 and and AK3. Clinched I-A3 in the process. Good first visit to the state.
Congrats! How manycountiesboroughs?
On Monday and Tuesday, I went to Limerick, Naples, Norway, Paris, and Leeds, among other places.
I stayed just outside Wales and Poland.
There are at least two of these, one in (appropriately) China and another in/near, IIRC, Lovell.
Clinched Michigan on weekend trip to/from Chicago. Not sure what state should be next.How about Wisconsin. It's lonely at the top :P (like you with Iowa)
CLINCHED AN X030 is certainly the easiest X0 to finish. I did it near end-to-end earlier this year.
yes it was I-30 let me have this
Also traveled I-35E in Dallas, which gives me every root and branch of I-35 from Laredo to Duluth.
Further details when I update my list.
How about Wisconsin. It's lonely at the top :P (like you with Iowa)Wisconsin's definitely on the radar. Not too far away, decent roads, attractive scenery, and almost 50% done already.
*clears throat loudly*How about Wisconsin. It's lonely at the top :P (like you with Iowa)I'm not on top in Iowa, but that might be worth shooting for at some point.
How about Wisconsin. It's lonely at the top :P (like you with Iowa)Wisconsin's definitely on the radar. Not too far away, decent roads, attractive scenery, and almost 50% done already.
I'm not on top in Iowa, but that might be worth shooting for at some point.
Others I'm considering are West Virginia (I've suffered through 84% of it already), Kentucky (it's close and if I want to concentrate on one state for a decade, maybe I can do it), Kansas (went there for grad school and loved it), and maybe New York or Virginia. Texas would be fun, but assuming Eric eventually drops all those FM roads on us, there's no way.
Just returned from a road trip Virginia to San Diego (via Austin TX one direction) and back...Nice! Does this put you over 100K miles?
California: I-8, I-40, I-805, CA 15 (postmiles begin at I-5?), CA 75
Just returned from a road trip Virginia to San Diego (via Austin TX one direction) and back...Nice! Does this put you over 100K miles?
I regret not going that tiny bit out of my way to clinch WA518 when I was there in 2013...
On my trip to New Haven and back to attend a conference (where I presented work on the METAL project) and a couple round trips between there and my hotel in Southington, I was able to take some creative routes and picked up a variety of mileage. I avoided the Mass Pike across the Berkshires, allowing me to fill in my last missing segments of MA 23 and MA 57. I took MA 168 and CT 168 for the first time, picked up a new chunk of CT 75 then a new chunk of CT 9, and finally some new mileage on CT 322. In the New Haven area, I finished off CT 122 and got a few new miles on US 1. I picked up my first miles on CT 114 and CT 313. Yesterday, I was able to add a little to CT 15, a tiny piece of US 1, a small missing piece of the Milford Connector, some CT 121, some CT 33, a chunk of US 7 to get myself to I-84. Into New York, I added my first miles on NY 313, filled in a gap in NY 55, finished off NY 9G, and made what was apparently my first trip across the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge to pick up a segment of NY 199. So several new routes, a few new clinches, and probably 100+ new miles. Not bad for staying relatively close to home and really not adding all that much to my travel times.
Even though I'm no longer deliberately visiting new counties, I noticed that my total since completing the US 6+ years ago is an even 2200 now, or 70%.
Two more trips between eastern PA, Hagerstown MD, and the FedroSplat so far this month. (I also updated my CA travels -- all of one trip -- after finally noticing that usaca was in preview.)
Clinched routes:
US11 in WV, PA345, PA465, PA724, PA772, PA999, MD26, MD140, MD144Bal, MD216
New segments of:
US11 in PA, US322 in PA, PA23, PA74, PA233, PA441, PA533 (entire concurrency with US11), PA641, PA696
The next update after this will cover two more such trips, plus anything new covered in PA on Memorial Day weekend.
Jim, what's a3.list?
Aa, sou. I've also got a vehice-specific one, harvey.list, for trips my parents have taken in "Harvey the RV". It still only includes the first trip of very many.when i first came on here (i. e., chp), i used the name of the car i had at the time, midnight express. the .list file was midnite_express. i had that little car for over four years and racked up a little under 120000 miles/200000km on it (i bought it at almost 128000/205000). when i had to give it up, i decided that using a car-dependent name made little sense and thus elected to go with my salient feature of driving everywhere.
As part of the completion of my travels this past weekend, I managed to complete three long (by MA standards) and rather annoying MA routes: 16, 18, and 38.Hm, yeah. A lot of mileage inside 495 there.
Driving in Massachusetts is annoying in general...and it doesn't matter what type of road you're on either...
Just finished what was supposed to be an 8-day pre-back-to-school trip in August that turned into a 2-part odyssey due to a self-inflicted SNAFU right from the beginning.
congrats on a delightful excursion, for the most part. we all make mistakes when planning a trip.
* Long AT&T story: At least, I thought I had some data left; calling AT&T, I couldn't actually find someone who knew for sure. The best they could do was say they were pretty sure I'd used about 60MB of the 300 purchase. Friday afternoon when I got to my hotel, I noticed that my data usage for the day had barely increased. So I headed out to get some pictures of the town, and upon turning on cellular data, got the warning message that I'd already burned through 80% of my data. So, somehow, just using Google Maps in the car and checking something in Safari while waiting at a construction site, I'd gone from 20% to 80%. I checked the usage again on my phone, and it hadn't changed at all. I called AT&T; they couldn't decipher it either and assured me it was an error.
i absolutely refuse to have anything to do with [anus (we all know the word i meant)] telephone. i had a number of bad experiences with them in the past, and soa t & t!
i keep my data usage to a minimum by using the wifi at mickey d’s or local libraries. if no password, i’m in!
Mid July saw us go out west for the National Park Travelers Club convention in Flagstaff, AZ. Of the 1400 miles we put on the rental car, a little over 900 were new as other than some existing mileage around Las Vegas and Flagstaff was new for us. About 500 of that was in Arizona. Some back and forth in the parks helped account for the rest of the difference. We flew into Las Vegas and then back out from Albuquerque.i posted my travels in the region. the trip was successful in that i completed the counties of two states, but failed to complete two others and missed the event i’d planned to do, the bare to breakers.
i was shocked when i found out that meteor crater (1) does not allow bare feet and (2) charges $18 admission!some day i plan to get 89 from s terminus to ut-14, but am not looking forward to that excursion. in addition, while there, will pick up 89a, 160 from w terminus to 163, and 191 from i-40 to us-6. i still have four counties to get in az.
- Stayed in St. George and got up to Exit 16 in Utah before taking UT 9 and then all of UT 59 back into Arizona. It became AZ 389. Stopped at Pipe Spring NM and connected with US 89A in Fredonia. Drove north to Kanab, UT looking for food and to get another county and finish 89A where it connects with US 89. Got a tiny bit of that one through town. Then back south on US 89A and down to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on AZ 69.
hope you get to capulin volcanic nat. mon. no park road, but a very pretty site, and lots of excellent hiking, which i did barefoot, much to the surprise of the onlookers.
- Two visits each into Walnut Canyon NM and the loop road for Sunset Crater Volcano NM and Wupatki NM to get those National Park roads. US 180 also goes through town and then duplexes I-40 until Holbrook, so we got our first mileage on it.
nothing much to see in holbrook.
- Headed east on I-40 giving us a straight run to Gallup, NM except where we pulled through Winslow on the BL. It was dark, so we didn't see the "Standing on a Corner" stuff, so we'll stop back by again. Since it was later, I didn't do my drive past to the second exit, take the business loop back through town, and then around on the interstate again routine and also skipped past going through Holbrook.
curse nm and their tiny state highways in towns!! i had to drive all over gallup to get them!
- Drove Route 66 / I-40 BL through Gallup and went north on US 491 to NM 264 and turned around and came back to get us our first US 491 mileage. Then, headed south on NM 602 to NM 53 east to hit El Morro NM. And then back to I-40 to Grants. Did part of the BL / Route 66 through town looking for food and got back on I-40 at Exit 85 which we took to I-25 in Albuquerque.
i have yet to do 491. too bad they had to change to that from 666!
i find driving in abq to be a mess. always a lot of road destruction, and can get lost easily.
still, overall a fine trip for you.
Mid July saw us go out west for the National Park Travelers Club convention in Flagstaff, AZ. Of the 1400 miles we put on the rental car, a little over 900 were new as other than some existing mileage around Las Vegas and Flagstaff was new for us. About 500 of that was in Arizona. Some back and forth in the parks helped account for the rest of the difference. We flew into Las Vegas and then back out from Albuquerque.i posted my travels in the region. the trip was successful in that i completed the counties of two states, but failed to complete two others and missed the event i’d planned to do, the bare to breakers.
i was shocked when i found out that meteor crater (1) does not allow bare feet and (2) charges $18 admission!some day i plan to get 89 from s terminus to ut-14, but am not looking forward to that excursion. in addition, while there, will pick up 89a, 160 from w terminus to 163, and 191 from i-40 to us-6. i still have four counties to get in az.
- Stayed in St. George and got up to Exit 16 in Utah before taking UT 9 and then all of UT 59 back into Arizona. It became AZ 389. Stopped at Pipe Spring NM and connected with US 89A in Fredonia. Drove north to Kanab, UT looking for food and to get another county and finish 89A where it connects with US 89. Got a tiny bit of that one through town. Then back south on US 89A and down to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon on AZ 69.
hope you get to capulin volcanic nat. mon. no park road, but a very pretty site, and lots of excellent hiking, which i did barefoot, much to the surprise of the onlookers.
- Two visits each into Walnut Canyon NM and the loop road for Sunset Crater Volcano NM and Wupatki NM to get those National Park roads. US 180 also goes through town and then duplexes I-40 until Holbrook, so we got our first mileage on it.
nothing much to see in holbrook.
- Headed east on I-40 giving us a straight run to Gallup, NM except where we pulled through Winslow on the BL. It was dark, so we didn't see the "Standing on a Corner" stuff, so we'll stop back by again. Since it was later, I didn't do my drive past to the second exit, take the business loop back through town, and then around on the interstate again routine and also skipped past going through Holbrook.
curse nm and their tiny state highways in towns!! i had to drive all over gallup to get them!
- Drove Route 66 / I-40 BL through Gallup and went north on US 491 to NM 264 and turned around and came back to get us our first US 491 mileage. Then, headed south on NM 602 to NM 53 east to hit El Morro NM. And then back to I-40 to Grants. Did part of the BL / Route 66 through town looking for food and got back on I-40 at Exit 85 which we took to I-25 in Albuquerque.
i have yet to do 491. too bad they had to change to that from 666!
i find driving in abq to be a mess. always a lot of road destruction, and can get lost easily.
still, overall a fine trip for you.
She should be glad she's not in northeastern Vermont. We can't even find basic sushi up here, let alone hibachi...Well you do have that maple cream pie (https://www.instagram.com/p/BJwJYSDhmZ9/?utm_source=ig_embed) place, which doesn't really have a SoCal equivalent. When she had New England on her search radar, UVM was one of the schools I thought she should look at, since Burlington's a great town. Northwestern Vermont ought to have some food variety.
@oscar: Did the Corn Palace live up to your expectations? What theme did they go with this year?
Also, you missed clinching 212 by a couple blocks? Why not just walk it?
The Corn Palace went with a military theme, carried over from last year. Lots of photo ops on the outside, not much inside (but at least admission is free).
The US 212 construction zone looked non-walkable, with both carriageways and sidewalks torn up. But it's close to I-29, and the project might be completed (or at least two-way traffic allowed on one carriageway) next time I'm up there, which could be as soon as late October.You’re much more cautious than I would be. Last month in some Maine town I will likely never visit again, I parked on one side of a closure on US 2, walked straight through the barriers and past the workers, turned around at the other side and walked back to my car. No one said anything. A few years ago a Michigan highway being fully rebuilt was nothing but sand when I walked the 5-6 blocks between the orange fences. Always bring flip flops because you never know when you’ll need them.
Always bring flip flops because you never know when you’ll need them.
Raton Pass almost killed my engine, but I made it 600 miles (without cruise control...across Kansas)
1. I am amused that I clinched eastern I-76 years before mapmikey (and I-80 in PA just about a week ahead of him). How did that happen?
I covered a lot of the parts of US 52 I haven't already covered, including all of the route in South Carolina, though I'm still missing parts in North Carolina (emergency road closure) and Ohio (construction closures), as well as previous gaps in Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota.
loss in Poland due to the recent S6 opening.You'll get that back when I know the DW number they should have given the old DK6.
I also passed the 80,000 TM miles and my 43-months old car passed 200,000km.Your car has quite a bit of life left in it :D
loss in Poland due to the recent S6 opening.You'll get that back when I know the DW number they should have given the old DK6.
btw: Congrats to panda80 for reaching 100,000 km and to emmaf for 12,000km - not bad for half-year-old! (she has more TM miles in ESP-AS and ESP-CL than me)
Multiple trips between eastern PA and the DC FedroSplat in the past month for me have yielded more new mileage.
It was almost all new miles for my car (TM user a3), which went from about 1650 TM miles to nearly 2600. Since I'd never taken the car on a trip toward the west before, the trace of this trip is very evident from http://travelmapping.net/user/mapview.php?units=miles&u=a3&rg=NY,PA,OH,WVYou can show multiple states at once!? :o :o
It was almost all new miles for my car (TM user a3), which went from about 1650 TM miles to nearly 2600. Since I'd never taken the car on a trip toward the west before, the trace of this trip is very evident from http://travelmapping.net/user/mapview.php?units=miles&u=a3&rg=NY,PA,OH,WVYou can show multiple states at once!? :o :o
Amazing what you can do with a command lineIt was almost all new miles for my car (TM user a3), which went from about 1650 TM miles to nearly 2600. Since I'd never taken the car on a trip toward the west before, the trace of this trip is very evident from http://travelmapping.net/user/mapview.php?units=miles&u=a3&rg=NY,PA,OH,WVYou can show multiple states at once!? :o :o
I took the opportunity to fill in some new segments and get us over the hump from 49.97% to 50.42% in NC.
I took the opportunity to fill in some new segments and get us over the hump from 49.97% to 50.42% in NC.
Your travel stats seem to be mike or kristie, not mike and kristie?
Multiple trips between eastern PA and the DC FedroSplat in the past month for me have yielded more new mileage.
What is the FedroSplat? I keep seeing that term used here but cannot find a definition when I Google it. In fact some of the Google search results take me back to this website.
I have currently clinched 16 TM systems* with a total mileage of about 23,800mi. Has anyone clinched more TM systems? ;D
*After next site update
select traveler, count(trav.systemName), sum(TravMi) from
( select
traveler,
systemName,
sum(mileage) as TravMi
from clinchedSystemMileageByRegion
group by traveler, systemName
) as trav
left join
( select
systemName,
sum(mileage) as fullMi
from systemMileageByRegion
group by systemName
) as whole
on trav.systemName = whole.systemName
where TravMi = fullMi
group by traveler
order by count(trav.systemName);| cinx | 2 | 387.1887969970703 |I've traveled 29 TM regions traveled in 2018: AUT, BEL, BIH, CHE, CZE, DEU-BB, DEU-BW, DEU-BE, DEU-BY, DEU-HE, DEU-MV, DEU-NW, DEU-NI, DEU-RP, DEU-SL, DEU-SN, DEU-ST, DEU-TH, ENG, FRA, HRV, IRL, ITA, LUX, NIR, SCT, SVN, SVK, WLS
And I've added more than 12,000 mi this year.
My progress since I've joined TM (CHM) 5 years ago:
End of 2013 mileage: 9,615 mi
End of 2014 mileage: 16,818 mi ; + 7,203 mi
End of 2015 mileage: 19,169 mi ; + 2,351 mi
End of 2016 mileage: 36,983 mi ; +17,814 mi (~5,500mi added due to new deub system)
End of 2017 mileage: 58,190 mi ; +21,207 mi (~2,500mi added due to new deubyst, deubwl, deuhel, deunwl, deurpl, deusll systems)
End of 2018 mileage: 70,811 mi ; +12,621 mi (~400mi added due to new remaining deuxxl systems)
some amazing sights along the way.That's a quality route. I'm jealous!
The last day was actually thought up on the fly, as I decided I wanted to do a couple of hill walks in the ChilternsGood call! That will be my outdoor time away from home during these next few weeks of social distancing.
stick to numbered roads in the process.Well the former B4010 isn't numbered anymore - and that's the road I'm saying was a good choice to take (the B4009 route is still good though). It's just a bit more Chilterny running at the ankle of the scarp slope rather than right down at the foot in the Vale. I presume you took it rather than your car teleporting! Unless you went a convoluted way that used part of the A413, but not a segment (in which case I can add points to give credit).
Next time, I'm definitely booking the tiniest thing I can get, as clearances were by far the biggest "issue" I dealt with driving in the UK.Car parks, especially. Spaces are designed for 1960s cars without side-impact protection systems, crumple zones, etc and so are tight fits with even small modern cars.
Coombe Hill and a loop around Wendover Woods. Wendover Woods has the "county top" for Buckinghamshire, so I was able to tie in another one of my hobbies. Beautiful views up there.Yep (was up the trees in the woods about a month ago - highest person in the county briefly before I went down a zip wire), though the woods make it hard to see through the trees. Coombe Hill (the Coombe Hill that people actually call Coombe Hill, rather than the one that's part of Wendover Woods 4km away) isn't a Marilyn (prominent peak) and 7m shorter than the one the other side of Wendover feels more like the high point due to the unwooded downland giving longer vistas and much larger monument marking the summit.
people there seem to still think Scopes' conviction was deservedGiven the town's folk are going to know more than most about the actual facts of the
The most annoying inconvenience I encountered was hotels that previously offered hot breakfasts are now handing out bagged "breakfasts" which really work better as mid-afternoon snacks
But there are bigger obstacles out there I'd have to navigate around, including some states still putting out-of-state visitors into quarantine or forbidding hotels from renting rooms for non-essential travel.
The most annoying inconvenience I encountered was hotels that previously offered hot breakfasts are now handing out bagged "breakfasts" which really work better as mid-afternoon snacks
What has typically been the contents of these bags?
QuoteBut there are bigger obstacles out there I'd have to navigate around, including some states still putting out-of-state visitors into quarantine or forbidding hotels from renting rooms for non-essential travel.
I've been following this and the number of states that have actually closed hotels off for travelers is pretty small. Arkansas is the only state outside of the northeast that has done so. Within the northeast it's hodgepodgy - CT will begin allowing non-essential hotel stays again on June 17th. NY and NJ never disallowed them.
Quarantine requirements as best I can tell only still exist in the continental US outside of the northeast in AZ, NM, OK, and AR. And even then, applicability is limited - NM only cares if you arrive in the state by air. AR and OK only care if you're from certain areas. AZ only cares if you're from certain areas and arrive by air. (you're not affected by AR, AZ, and OK's rules, though I am).
Quarantine requirements as best I can tell only still exist in the continental US outside of the northeast in AZ, NM, OK, and AR. And even then, applicability is limited - NM only cares if you arrive in the state by air. AR and OK only care if you're from certain areas. AZ only cares if you're from certain areas and arrive by air. (you're not affected by AR, AZ, and OK's rules, though I am).
MT seems to be on that list as well.
There are also tribal restrictions, for those seeking to travel US or state highways. Some parts of western SD have that issue, though I clinched last year the US highways where the tribal checkpoints have gone up this year (some of them reportedly turning away vehicles with out-of-state plates). The Navajo Nation is also a worry, though it's unclear whether its stringent stay-at-home/curfew restrictions affect through travel by non-Navajo citizens (some Navajo-controlled tourist attractions are closed, reportedly including the much-overrated Four Corners monument). I-40 does not cross Navajo lands (except clipping the SE corner of Navajo Nation territory), but several US and state highways do.
Always bring flip flops because you never know when you’ll need them.i never have any sort of footwear along.
(parts deleted)with a few more performances like this, you soon will overtake me!
congrats on picking up so many new ones! how i’ve done on these
0 to 100 on the following routes:
ID US20Bus (St. Anthony) done
ID ID33Spr (Sugar City) done
MT I-15BL (Dillon) done
MT I-15BL (Helena) 0 (l & c co designated as last)
MT US12Bus (Helena) 0
MT MT1 0
UT UT16 need s of ut39
UT UT38 done
UT UT90 done
UT UT200 0
UT UT282 (Fort Douglas) 0
WY US191 (North Yellowstone) 0
WY WY89 (Evanston) need n of cou rd
Completed the following routes:
ID I-15 done
ID ID36 only parts done are its co-brand w/ 91
MT US191 (West Yellowstone) need n of 20
UT UT23 0
UT UT269 0
Initial mileage on the following routes:
ID US20Bus (Rigby) done
ID ID48 0
MT US12 need e of 90 to 94, and e of that
MT MT85 0
MT SR347 0
UT UT61 0
UT UT142 0
UT UT201 done
UT UT252 0
UT UT282 0
WY I-80BL (Evanston) done
WY US189Bus (Evanston) done
Additional mileage on the following routes:
ID ID33 need w of 28
ID ID34 have only co-brand w/ 30
MT I-15 need n of 90
MT I-90 done (over 554 miles!!)
MT US191 have only parts co-branded w/ 90
MT US287 have only parts co-branded w/ 90
UT UT30 need w of i-84, between i-15 and 89/91, and e of ut16
UT UT68 0
UT UT71 need w of 154; has not been mapped
UT UT154 need s of 171 and n of 80
UT UT186 0
Took a ride to northern New England and accomplished 3 small goals:small but impressive.
Clinched my last NH highway by crossing the Connecticut River on VT18/NH18.
Finished as much as I could of US5 and I-91 without crossing the international border. Derby Line is a strange place!
Drove over the latest iteration of the Brookfield Floating Bridge (VT65).
some omittedmy travel plans this year were thwarted, so i always like to see that others have been able to do some things. i need 30 in the eastern part of the state to have all of it there. when i complete id, that will gain more of it, and will have it almost across the country.
Took a day trip out to Mt Hood and The Dalles, found US 26 has a business route, and verified and clinched a US 30H segment. so, is this 26b new, or just never had been noticed by tm?
… went up OR 173 to Timberline Lodge to get pictures of the lodge, Mt Hood, Mt Jefferson and the Three Sisters. 173 is still not signed. i saw the sisters from 20 but never tried to visit them.
I then took ORH 26 out to Hood River (US 26/ORH 26, OR 35/ORH 26). OR 35's one of the only north-south routes where the milemarkers rise going north (as its 0 is at the west end of the Ross Island Bridge); coincidentally, ORH 53, which US 26 follows going south from Mt Hood, continues ORH 26's mileage from the US 25/OR 35 split. good additions!
While OR 35/ORH 26 officially end at I-84, the road continues across the Hood River Bridge into Washington. I'd be comfortable with calling it an OR/WA 35 extension, though it isn't signed as such.
Took WA 14 east to US 197 (found a advance signage error with a WA 197 shield, ha), then back into Oregon. I stuck to US 30/ORH 100 for the most part. I was surprised at how many people were camping out at the Rowena Crest Lookout.
wa is noted for this. i missed the one you referred to but did get two others in 06/2017.
(https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/fSMR2AnNG40NT720CXivYigbmJXJtEt0SVORxxZSQos-2048x1536.jpg) and (https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/ZzQ-t_1-H2NeWcwyyuWcVJRyn39z0EWQ4zJUCU_dnAE-2048x1536.jpg)—the first is in walla walla, the other in colville.
I intended to take the Historic Highway through the main thrust of the Gorge, but it was closed, sadly, as was Exit 31 (the Multnomah Falls left hand parking exit). always some sort of snag in our expeditions.
From there, just a straight shot back into Portland.
a marvelous clinching route!
I have already spent quite some time compiling my .list file. It's not easy to try to recall and track all the major roads I have been on over the past sixteen years. For that reason, there are quite a few inaccuracies with my recordings.hang in there, and we all hope the pandemic eases so we can travel again!
I've been tackling the .list file by region. I've started out with my less-traveled regions, including all regions overseas (DEU-BY, AUT, & ISL), and about half of the U.S states I have been to (I've driven in at least 25). With this, I have a little over 6,000 miles clinched, including preview systems. Between that and my overall rank, it is more than I expected. Many of my multi-region travels aren't accounted for, they are part of the 40+ documenting errors I have made :pan:
it takes practice to create the .list file. i made a lot of typos in mine, and sometimes they change the waypoints so you have to redo that route!
you have travelled outside the u. s., but while i did many years ago, i have no idea of what the routes were as i was a passenger in a bus.
i have driven in all of the lower 48 at some time or another (most more than once), i try for both counties and highways.
Because of the Coronavirus, I have not traveled outside of MO or AR this year. In fact, most of my AR state highway mileage comes from a few small 1-2 night trips taken recently. I'm not sure how many routes I've clinched down there (if any), as I have not uploaded AR state highway data yet.
i know the feeling. i made a small trip into mo in may to put flowers on my parents’ graves. in the way back, i gained one new highway in ia, plus photographed the shield of a renamed one.
arkansas is a difficult state to plot the state roads because it has so many duplicates. i don’t drive there very much at all.
As far as I know, there is one other teenager who has mapped their travels on here, noelbotevera. Of course, I might be wrong about that, but that is important to consider. >99% of my clinched miles have been as a passenger. Plus, I rarely have control of the routes I take. It's usually what the ol' Google says is quickest, and there have been many times where I could have easily picked up extra route mileage, bridged some gaps in coverage for a particular route, or clinched one all together if I did. A good example of this would be taking the whole of I-68 west from DC as opposed to returning via Breezewood/I-70 like I did on the way there. On that note, I now have a driver's license and can now do more driving on my own terms. I suppose I can start by clinching some nearby state routes. After all, I really don't that much else to do.
good luck in your future travels and highway conquests!
i got all of 68 last fall. now i just need the toll part of i-70 to have all of that also.
my mapping aid is here we go. it works adequately. i still like the old-fashioned paper maps.
Thanks to the log file, I have seen how many careless mistakes I've made while documenting, so I can now fix them and complete a few more states. I'll update my stats tomorrow.
I have already spent quite some time compiling my .list file. It's not easy to try to recall and track all the major roads I have been on over the past sixteen years. For that reason, there are quite a few inaccuracies with my recordings.
Borders only exist in people's mind!
I don't care much about region/state borders but I orientate myself with motorways on maps. I have finally clinched my first "motorway regions" :) It's the region where I live between German A3, A7, A66 and A45. It has a perimeter of 285km. and consists of routes from deua, eure, deub, deubwl, deubyl and deuhel systems.
Unfortunately, we don't have stats for it ;) I need to select three "traditional" regions to show it on a map (http://travelmapping.net/user/mapview.php?units=miles&u=michih&rg=DEU-BW,DEU-BY,DEU-HE). You can see the next four "regions" to be clinched just south of the first region. They are limited by A3, A5, A7 and A8 with a total perimeter of 580km. They are split into four "regions" by A6 and A81 :)
Oh I just did a 4-night jaunt over to Michigan. Small effort - it gave me the other US 10 (I didn't take the ferry) and the remaining Interstates. It was a fallback trip due to non-COVID health issues. I would have gotten some Indiana and Illinois portions but aborted that.i’ve done the ferry, and found that u-10 mi is a fairly scenic route.
WV 598
You weren't stuck in the traffic jam I created on Wis 29, just east of I-39/US 51, near Wausau, when I wrecked my car up there, two weeks ago?
Always bring flip flops because you never know when you’ll need them.i never have any sort of footwear along.
2nd "motorway region" clinched :)
Next to be clinched: region between A3, A6, A7 and A81 + region between A6, A7, A8 and A81. Both are very close to completion.
All those travels on miscellaneous state highways between county seats should hopefully push me back into 1st place for Georgia mileage now too.
All those travels on miscellaneous state highways between county seats should hopefully push me back into 1st place for Georgia mileage now too.
I can't seem to find that list any more. Where did it end up going?
All those travels on miscellaneous state highways between county seats should hopefully push me back into 1st place for Georgia mileage now too.
I can't seem to find that list any more. Where did it end up going?
Are you asking about a list of GA state highways or the rankings on this site by state?
The rankings by state, system, etc.
The rankings by state, system, etc.
We have rankings by region, e.g. https://travelmapping.net/user/region.php?u=ntallyn&rg=AB (scroll to the end).
We do not yet have rankings by system - just an open issue on Github: https://github.com/TravelMapping/Web/issues/97
This is the one I remember seeing in the past. But every time I would look for it, I would end up at the MapView. But I finally found the link to the region. Apparently, I'm the only one who doesn't know to click on the name of the region. :pan:The rankings by state, system, etc.
We have rankings by region, e.g. https://travelmapping.net/user/region.php?u=ntallyn&rg=AB (scroll to the end).
We do not yet have rankings by system - just an open issue on Github: https://github.com/TravelMapping/Web/issues/97
Apparently, I'm the only one who doesn't know to click on the name of the region. :pan:
That's why Jim added a note above the table this summer: https://travelmapping.net/user/
(https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=397.0;attach=302)
Instructions? Who uses them? ;)
Instructions? Who uses them? ;)
Exactly ;) Maybe a column "Stats" next to "Map" and "HB" would be better.
Because of the Coronavirus, I have not traveled outside of MO, AR and OK, very briefly this year. In fact, most of my AR state highway mileage comes from a few small 1-2 night trips taken recently. I'm not sure how many routes I've clinched down there (if any), as I have not uploaded AR state highway data yet.Fortunately, this should change next week. For Thanksgiving, I will be headed to North-Central TN/South-Central KY. This will greatly increase the mileage I have in those two states. As it stands, my mileage in those two states is very shallow, being little outside of Interstates 64 and 24. The route taken will include some of Future I-57 in Missouri, where signs for the project have been in place for a year or so now. On that note, will Future I-57 be added to US Future Interstate Highways, and if so, when?
Motivation to maintain US Future Interstate Highways as its own separate system has been waning, though there's been no consensus to kill it off yet.
Downsides include how the system is by definition a moving target, poor signage and lack of consensus on what to include & when, and how virtually all of its mileage is concurrent with other routes.
About the only route that would survive the deletion of usaif, would be Future I-26 in NC, due to it being fully posted as a Future Interstate complete with shields that lack the 'Interstate' text in them, and having a 'Future' banner.I'm quite tempted to argue with that logic, but perhaps that discussion belongs here (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=1898.new#new)... 8)
I'm quite tempted to argue with that logic, but perhaps that discussion belongs here (https://forum.travelmapping.net/index.php?topic=1898.new#new)... 8)"The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you."
"The topic or board you are looking for appears to be either missing or off limits to you."It's now been moved over to the public side of the forum.
I've traveled 29 TM regions traveled in 2018: AUT, BEL, BIH, CHE, CZE, DEU-BB, DEU-BW, DEU-BE, DEU-BY, DEU-HE, DEU-MV, DEU-NW, DEU-NI, DEU-RP, DEU-SL, DEU-SN, DEU-ST, DEU-TH, ENG, FRA, HRV, IRL, ITA, LUX, NIR, SCT, SVN, SVK, WLS
And I've added more than 12,000 mi this year.
My progress since I've joined TM (CHM) 5 years ago:
End of 2013 mileage: 9,615 mi
End of 2014 mileage: 16,818 mi ; + 7,203 mi
End of 2015 mileage: 19,169 mi ; + 2,351 mi
End of 2016 mileage: 36,983 mi ; +17,814 mi (~5,500mi added due to new deub system)
End of 2017 mileage: 58,190 mi ; +21,207 mi (~2,500mi added due to new deubyst, deubwl, deuhel, deunwl, deurpl, deusll systems)
End of 2018 mileage: 70,811 mi ; +12,621 mi (~400mi added due to new remaining deuxxl systems)
I've traveled 38 TM regions in 2019: ALB, AUT, BEL, BIH, BGR, CHE, CZE, DEU-BB, DEU-BW, DEU-BE, DEU-BY, DEU-HE, DEU-NW, DEU-NI, DEU-RP, DEU-SN, DEU-ST, DEU-TH, ENG, FRA-ARA, FRA-GES, FRA-HDF, FRA-IDF, FRA-NOR, FRA-PAC, GRC, HRV, HUN, ITA, LUX, MKD, MLT, MNE, NLD, POL, SVN, SRB, SVK
And I've added more than 13,000 mi this year:
End of 2019 mileage: 84,500 mi = +13,689 mi
This is the one I remember seeing in the past. But every time I would look for it, I would end up at the MapView. But I finally found the link to the region. Apparently, I'm the only one who doesn't know to click on the name of the region. :pan:The rankings by state, system, etc.
We have rankings by region, e.g. https://travelmapping.net/user/region.php?u=ntallyn&rg=AB (scroll to the end).
We do not yet have rankings by system - just an open issue on Github: https://github.com/TravelMapping/Web/issues/97
So...with the activation of the Australian A roads, I decided to take a look at my handful of miles around Adelaide. And I found something interesting...
When I look at my "Stats by Region" and click on South Australia, I see that I rank #3 for distance, and I see the list at the bottom of the page (https://travelmapping.net/user/region.php?units=miles&u=ntallyn&rg=AUS-SA).
However, when I look at my "Stats by System" and click on Australia A Roads, I see that I rank #6 for distance, but the list of travelers does not appear (https://travelmapping.net/user/system.php?units=miles&u=ntallyn&sys=ausa).
So...with the activation of the Australian A roads, I decided to take a look at my handful of miles around Adelaide. And I found something interesting...
When I look at my "Stats by Region" and click on South Australia, I see that I rank #3 for distance, and I see the list at the bottom of the page (https://travelmapping.net/user/region.php?units=miles&u=ntallyn&rg=AUS-SA).
However, when I look at my "Stats by System" and click on Australia A Roads, I see that I rank #6 for distance, but the list of travelers does not appear (https://travelmapping.net/user/system.php?units=miles&u=ntallyn&sys=ausa).
Not entirely sure what you're asking here, so sorry if I misunderstood. You answered the "where is the list of travelers" question in your message, so are you asking why you're ranked 3 on one page and 6 in the other? One is your ranking in AUS-SA, and the other is your ranking on A Roads in all of Australia.
It was mentioned earlier in the thread that rankings by system don't exist. Is this new? If so, it would be nice to see the individuals listed at the end of the page similar to the rankings by region. Or is this a programming/display issue?
If anyone has other things, especially on the web front end side of things, that you'd like me to try to prioritize, let me know.
a Portland to Albany and back runThis makes me want to write a trollishly sincere ode to the NEI 9 corridor. :D
Drove down to visit my parents in St. Augustine, FL (after quarantining for two weeks) and bought a car to bring back to Colorado. Ballpark 2,400 new miles and 110 counties. New interstate clinches: I-27, I-369, I-49 (re-clinch), I-220 (Shreveport), I-516 (Savannah), I-295 (Richmond), I-83, I-70, I-68, I-279 (Pittsburgh), I-680 (Youngstown), I-277 (Akron), I-180 (Hennepin), I-280 (Quad Cities), I-172 (Quincy).very nicely done!
Two days down (stopping in Bossier City, LA for the night), three days back (stopping in Rehoboth Beach, DE and Peru, IL).
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Then, we left for Fort Erie. We took Highway 420, but unfortunately it wasn't a clinch because I exited onto the QEW, one exit before the actual end on this website.
A day trip to Kitty Hawk collected most of VA 168, as well as NC 168, US 158, and NC 12.
Nice catch. Two clinches.QuoteA day trip to Kitty Hawk collected most of VA 168, as well as NC 168, US 158, and NC 12.
You did not clinch NC 168?
Took a 16.5 hour ride around North Carolina since they have made enough changes in eastern NC to be worth going...
US 48 and US 140 shields, too...
QuoteUS 48 and US 140 shields, too...
I saw the US 140 one when I drove in the area in December. I cut NJ 48 on that trip to try to save time.
If US 48 was not reinstated for Corridor H, we would have erroneous US route shields for two former US routes within 5 miles of each other. :D
Nevermind that the last few miles are signed "Rough Road" and that's putting it mildly...makes the dirt road I live on feel like brand new asphalt in comparison...
Did my first daytrip in months (and first trip outside VT/NH in over a year) into the Adirondacks to fill in some gaps. Should put me over 9K total mileage in New York.I believe the area on the end is or used to be some DEC site. Still, not sure why it's a touring route rather than a reference route.
And this may have been asked before (I'm sure it has on AARoads), but what is the point of NY 421? I'm not really seeing a valid state purpose for that route. Nevermind that the last few miles are signed "Rough Road" and that's putting it mildly...makes the dirt road I live on feel like brand new asphalt in comparison...
-- Texas Loop 375, the recently-completed loop around El Paso
Quote-- Texas Loop 375, the recently-completed loop around El Paso
Were you actually paying tolls on the tolled section now?
Quote-- Texas Loop 375, the recently-completed loop around El Paso
Were you actually paying tolls on the tolled section now?
I haven't yet received a "pay by mail" bill. With only one trip on the TxTag system, and with Virginia plates, who knows whether I'll ever be billed?
I traveled more extensively on the Orange County CA toll road system. But unlike TX Loop 375, that system lets you make an online toll payment, before the threatened hammer comes down on you for non-payment.
Quote-- Texas Loop 375, the recently-completed loop around El Paso
Were you actually paying tolls on the tolled section now?
I haven't yet received a "pay by mail" bill. With only one trip on the TxTag system, and with Virginia plates, who knows whether I'll ever be billed?
I traveled more extensively on the Orange County CA toll road system. But unlike TX Loop 375, that system lets you make an online toll payment, before the threatened hammer comes down on you for non-payment.
I drove some Austin-area toll roads in Jan 2019 with my Virginia plates and I did get a bill for it. Florida has also done the same.
Still waiting on the bill for ETR 407 in Ontario (6 years later...guess I'm not getting one).
Still waiting on the bill for ETR 407 in Ontario (6 years later...guess I'm not getting one).
When, I reached the Sonny Dixon Interchange, I clinched the current entirety of the Jimmy DeLoach Parkway (from there to US 80/GA 17/GA 26). As a side note, the parkway was signed as part of GA 17.
Is that a Covid closure on 109? That's one I've been meaning to get as part of an Olympic clinch, but if so, I'll want to wait on that one.
Both were focused on US Highways, and the second trip resulted in clinches of 54, 62, 63, 169, 177, and 380 as well as a re-clinch of 175's northern end and the Poynor bypass.
QuoteBoth were focused on US Highways, and the second trip resulted in clinches of 54, 62, 63, 169, 177, and 380 as well as a re-clinch of 175's northern end and the Poynor bypass.
Did you get to drive near Logan, NM, on US 54 on the new Canadian River Bridge?
Did you get to drive near Logan, NM, on US 54 on the new Canadian River Bridge?
Yes, but I had to take the old bridge since the new bridge is not open yet.
When the new bridge opens, will you count that as a de-clinch?
I now only lack the southernmost 3 miles of I-95 to complete the Florida portion.
Finished off AL202 and AL281 recently to leave only the 1/2 mile section of AL255 left to clinch in the NE portion of AL (east of I-65, north of I-20).
East Central AL (east of I-65, south of I-20, north of I-85) is probably the next region of focus since my normal travels take me in that direction more often than other directions.
Took an overnight trip to Amish country to eat at the Shady Maple Smorgasbord...
A week ago, when it was insanely hot in western WA, I went and camped up at Birch Bay near the Canadian border. On this trip, I clinched WA 548 and then I got a little bit more of I-5 between Exits 275 and 276 in Blaine, so I'm a bit closer to finally clinching I-5 in my home state (this is the only Interstate in WA that I haven't clinched yet!). Whenever the border re-opens, then I'll be able to clinch the rest of I-5 finally, but who knows when that will take place?If you're willing to hoof it, I've read that the park for the Peace Arch is still open.
I've now completed 4 of the 6 New England states. I look forward to VT, but not the New York-ish parts of CT.
PA 352 (missing the few blocks south of I-95)
Massive clinch-a-thon continues to this day as I have completed the following. Interstate 64 and 66 in full, I-95 and 195 in the RVA area (Making for a continuous completion between Rocky Mount and Falmouth including both NJTPK spurs (had finished PA last month finally), all 3di’s in Hampton Roads, the CBBT, a good chunk of Maryland’s US 50 (Only east of US 13 remains). All DC US routes effectively completing DC as I refuse to count NPS routes that are not essential (Beach drive and Rock Creek Park - I did get the Barton, Suitland, and GWMP. Also I-66 is done as are the remaining MD I’s and MD 200 (ouch). More on the way.Added additional miles in VA and now have the WV and OH interstates completed, significant gain on US 20 (now have between west of Sioux City and Euclid (Between Cleveland and Ashtabula) and some additional US 6.
Had a trip to (mostly) Idaho for a family reunion, followed immediately by a business trip to Virginia.
Salt Lake City/Soda Springs/Jackson Hole mileage:
ID: US 89, ID 34 (clinch), ID 61 (clinch)
UT: UT 93
WY: US 26, US 89 (clinch), WY 89 (clinch), WY 239 (clinch)
Had a trip to (mostly) Idaho for a family reunion, followed immediately by a business trip to Virginia.
Salt Lake City/Soda Springs/Jackson Hole mileage:
ID: US 89, ID 34 (clinch), ID 61 (clinch)
UT: UT 93
WY: US 26, US 89 (clinch), WY 89 (clinch), WY 239 (clinch)
To be honest, not clinching Utah 93 is almost as impressive as clinching it.
QuotePA 352 (missing the few blocks south of I-95)
I presume that it was still closed when you tried to clinch it. I believe that it is reopen now.
Clinched: I-10 (NM), I-110 (TX),
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*I am uncertain in my mind if US 54 is truly concurrent with I-110, but I think it is very briefly.
*** Unsure if [NY102] officially extends west to NY 24 or not, but I drove that part to be sure. Unsigned west of where the end is shown in the HB.Shapefiles, RIS Viewer (https://gis.dot.ny.gov/html5viewer/?viewer=risviewer) and 2014 TDR (https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/hds-respository/NYSDOT_Traffic_Data_Report_2014.pdf) all show an end at NY24. 2017 Touring Route book (https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/oom/transportation-systems/repository/2017%20tour-bk.pdf) OTOH lists "(William Street) Hempstead". Thankfully, the unsigned part is unsigned. :)
and the Trans-Canada Highway system (reroute in Quebec from the A-85 extension, and two reroutes at opposite ends of northern Ontario -- the last one, west of Thunder Bay, annoyingly prolonged my travels over familiar and mostly boring territory).
and the Trans-Canada Highway system (reroute in Quebec from the A-85 extension, and two reroutes at opposite ends of northern Ontario -- the last one, west of Thunder Bay, annoyingly prolonged my travels over familiar and mostly boring territory).
You might still not have it, unless you hit up ON-69 on this trip too. I still need to put in the reroute between SH-522 & *OldON69_NoeS, as it was moved onto a new alignment there earlier this year.
and the Trans-Canada Highway system (reroute in Quebec from the A-85 extension, and two reroutes at opposite ends of northern Ontario -- the last one, west of Thunder Bay, annoyingly prolonged my travels over familiar and mostly boring territory).
You might still not have it, unless you hit up ON-69 on this trip too. I still need to put in the reroute between SH-522 & *OldON69_NoeS, as it was moved onto a new alignment there earlier this year.
I didn't, since I was under the impression that nothing had happened with ON 69 (except simple twinnings) yet this year. I could've worked ON 69 into my itinerary had I thought it necessary, though at the expense of other parts of my itinerary such as side trips on ON 115/28/62 and QC 382.
Oh well, ON 69 looks to be a moving target anyway, with more reroutings in the offing.
Here's the 100k club. Active mileage is more North American-centric.Code: [Select]Rank Username ActiveMiles Active% PreviewMiles Preview%
1 mapcat 193715.29 31.44% 197206.58 23.91%
2 oscar 189021.63 30.68% 201423.44 24.42%
3 vespertine 168141.30 27.29% 171585.30 20.80%
It will take another year or two, but I hope to crack 100k before long. 90K will happen this year. Admittedly, it is much easier in North America. :)
btw: The "100k club" has 19 members now. aaroads also joined it last week.
btw: The "100k club" has 19 members now. aaroads also joined it last week.
Now up to 20 (don't know who is the new member, unless it's you). But it'll drop back to 19 with tonight's update, since one of the 20 is my ovoss_old.list file (rough display of my travels up to mid-2010), which I'm finally deleting as no longer needed for my "round 2" county-counting project.
Congratulations on the milestone, but really sorry to hear about the car.
Congratulations on the milestone, but really sorry to hear about the car.
Thanks. The repair was expensive, but I have my car back! I took a 7 hours train ride to pick up my car in the north of Germany. The return trip was a 7 hours car ride including a little detour for 27 new TM miles :)
My 2021 year-end summary:
No new mileage.
Mileage decreased due to relocations & cancellations.
;D Happy new year y'all! ;D
I know that I got at least 15,000 new miles in 2021. I would need code help to determine the exact number though.
/home/tmp/tm/
^ Lost me at line 3, since I know nothing about Unix (I'm a lawyer, not a programmer).
Once in a while I go through and save one per month into the monthly_snapshots subdirectory.
I could make them web-accessible, but it doesn't seem necessary.
Also, remember that TM's data is changing over time, so think about new systems, added/deleted routes, etc. when looking at those numbers to determine new miles added.
^ Lost me at line 3, since I know nothing about Unix (I'm a lawyer, not a programmer).
yakra is a nerd :D It is much simpler - simpler than running data check!
Got up early this morning to go to Madison, IN, Delhi, IL, Meredosia, IL, and Gary IN to do some reclinching. 18+ hours and 1163 miles for <1 mi net gain :P . But IL and IN are 100% again.
Edit: I hate math
Nice stats fortune today :)Did you do that on purpose?
100189.65 miles active
101896.56 miles active+preview
https://travelmapping.net/user/?u=michih
Nice stats fortune today :)Did you do that on purpose?
100189.65 miles active
101896.56 miles active+preview
https://travelmapping.net/user/?u=michih
-- 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.
Last Saturday in south Texas (off my usual cross-country travel patterns) was a real clinch-a-thon.
Curious about your experience at the border for 57. How well is everything working there now?
I will decline to publicly state how fast I was going on some of those roads...
Other routes now clinched in entirety in the course of said trip:
...
CA 7, CA 18, CA 37, CA 53, CA 74, CA 186, CA 233, CA 267
I'm mostly finished with my trip to the Natchez MS road meet last month, which as noted above turned into mainly a Texas trip. Some more notes since my earlier report:
-- Traveled the weird and obscure disconnected US 67 mainline fragment in Brashear TX (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?units=miles&u=oscar&r=tx.us067bra). I am the only TM user to have traveled that route, which starts and ends at the southern frontage road for the I-30/US 67 freeway NE of Dallas, but is barely visible (and not signed) from the eastbound freeway.
-- Also re-clinched US 412, by driving the new Light AR bypass.
Missing numbers: 525 673 688 738 767 793 809 813 816 831 843 853 877 887 918 929 939 942 945 959 962 963 972
If you can scrounge up a 525 somewhere near you, you can jump into the game. and go straight to the top, overtaking me at 609. That will make Rothman (leader of the "get Oscar" brigade) very happy.
I still hang at 144 but there is one (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=frages.d01446ae) quite close to me, just a 2.5 hour drive to get there. The missing 300s and 400s are in a similar distance up to 3.5 hours from home. I can catch a lot of these missing numbers with a simple one-day trip.
575 (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=deunw.l575), 576 (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=bel.n576) and 581 (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=deunw.l581) are more challenging but doable with two-day-trips. Once done, 625 will be the next missing route which will be a little bit easier to catch - just like the remaining 600s around Dortmund, DEU-NW, or Strasbourg, FRA-GES.
Sounds like a nice little goal for 2022 :)
On top of that I clinched US1 between Pennsylvania and Maine, which ended up being one of the most congested and borderline frustrating drives of my career. Especially between NYC and Providence. (To everyone else that has US1 in NY, CT, and RI, give yourselves a pat on the back.)Wow! I do have that piece of US 1, but most of my mileage on that section was done over 4-5 trips (with incidental section on other trips; a lot of the reason I did it was to fill in the gaps), and I could not imagine trying to do it all at once. Each time I've clinched a piece of that section of US 1, I've been very thankful to move on to other roads afterwards, and most of that mileage was clinched in the winter, so I can only imagine how much worse it is this time of year!
Did NY US1 HutRivPkwy RI US1 BroSt_N in early August 2019. Westchester County was a slog.
Wow! I do have that piece of US 1, but most of my mileage on that section was done over 4-5 trips (with incidental section on other trips; a lot of the reason I did it was to fill in the gaps), and I could not imagine trying to do it all at once. Each time I've clinched a piece of that section of US 1, I've been very thankful to move on to other roads afterwards, and most of that mileage was clinched in the winter, so I can only imagine how much worse it is this time of year!I did do it all at once. I don't remember what time it was when I got on it in Pennsylvania, however I remember crossing into New York around 5:00 PM because traffic on US1 through The Bronx was utter chaos. Connecticut's western half wasn't much better and it didn't help that it felt like every light would turn yellow a second or two too early for me to make it. I'm not the type of person to get frustrated but there were several moments between Stamford and New Haven where I asked myself "Dude, why on earth are you doing this to yourself? Is this really worth it?" I didn't get to Providence until roughly 2-3 AM.
Downtown Providence was a nightmare mainly because I missed my turn several times due to lack of signage and kept having to backtrack to avoid missing a piece of US1.Yup. That's exactly why my endpoint is where it is. Still missing that piece downtown though.
Despite the fact that they keep finding new ways to lose, I did get to see them win one game. (To be fair, no one really thought that the Braves would have won the 2021 World Series this time last year either.)Could be worse, you could be a Mariners fan.
Note the interesting pedestrian situation for the DDI on I-75 at Windy Hill Rd (Exit 260) where pedestrians actually end up in the sidewalk in the middle of the DDI (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9018465,-84.4734594,3a,75y,215.94h,90.39t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1shVxtneMdWV_MFDFxPxSNmg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DhVxtneMdWV_MFDFxPxSNmg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D233.65948%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192). There were pedestrian bridges closer to Truist Park so there was very little crossing the street after crossing I-75.
Note the interesting pedestrian situation for the DDI on I-75 at Windy Hill Rd (Exit 260) where pedestrians actually end up in the sidewalk in the middle of the DDI (https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9018465,-84.4734594,3a,75y,215.94h,90.39t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1shVxtneMdWV_MFDFxPxSNmg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DhVxtneMdWV_MFDFxPxSNmg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D233.65948%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192). There were pedestrian bridges closer to Truist Park so there was very little crossing the street after crossing I-75.
Yeah, the GDOT seems to like scaring pedestrians and has been doing this on all the new DDI bridges. See here at Ashford-Dunwoody Road as well. Ashford-Dunwoody at I-285 in Perimeter area
(https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9177745,-84.3382302,3a,75y,112.63h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4nv_Hg9SuvDGtBBM5eDtlw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D4nv_Hg9SuvDGtBBM5eDtlw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D116.67331%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192)
And NY 73 is my favorite touring route for a reason (although the Cascade Lakes portion is under construction this year, so now really isn't the time to see it).We're staying in Lake Placid; is NY 73 closed or just one-lane with a pilot car?
^ One lane with automatic temporary traffic lights, but the longest section in question (there are two smaller ones) will be about a mile long (at least), so it will be a bit of a wait. Pilot cars aren't usually used in this part of the country, but they're not unheard of either.
^ One lane with automatic temporary traffic lights, but the longest section in question (there are two smaller ones) will be about a mile long (at least), so it will be a bit of a wait. Pilot cars aren't usually used in this part of the country, but they're not unheard of either.Cool, thanks for the info!
*** I now have SC 700, NC 700, and MD 700 clinched. Outside of mapmikey, I cannot think of anyone else that would have these three routes (or any combination of three 700s) clinched. I only got SC 700 from a mission trip to Johns Island in 2012.
More on the topic of this thread, the wife and I are heading out to the Northeast (flying into Boston) for a short roadtrip in a couple weeks. I've never been to MA, CT, RI, NH, or ME (I spent 2 hours in VT once lol), so does anyone have any "can't miss" attractions in the eastern Adirondacks to White Mountains area? I already have some ideas but I figure asking people who know more would be useful...Guess I should give an update on how this went lol (work's been busy); we did most of the things y'all suggested (NH 112 reminded me a lot of Spearfish Canyon (US 14A) so that was nice). It was great fun and I managed to visit all the Northeast states I had left, so now Kentucky and Hawaii are the only states I haven't been to. Also drove the Mt. Washington road in NH (same day as 112) and hoo boy is that narrow and terrifying. I'd say it was worse than Pikes Peak, because at least that one has some attempt at railings and you can see what's next on the road. Views were gorgeous tho!
Something interesting about KY. The difference between first (mapcat-total 2504) and second (vespertine-total 1375) in clinched routes is 1129. The difference between vespertine and third-place (lkefct-83) is 1292.
Personally, as much as I would like to clinch every short route in KY, there are just way too many to make that reasonably worthwhile.
Something interesting about KY. The difference between first (mapcat-total 2504) and second (vespertine-total 1375) in clinched routes is 1129. The difference between vespertine and third-place (lkefct-83) is 1292.
Personally, as much as I would like to clinch every short route in KY, there are just way too many to make that reasonably worthwhile.
it doesn't help that Kentucky's route map seems to always be in a state of flux, with the state adding and subtracting routes on a yearly basis.
But if Kentucky's quantity is too much, you can go practice on Louisiana (1200 routes...at the moment), or Texas (980 routes).
I clinched D144 in Alsace last weekend and stick at 575 now (https://travelmapping.net/user/routesbynumber.php?u=michih) - while @mapcat is still at 525 :)
Missing Numbers:
767 780 781 797 799 900 960 965 976 987 996Lowest overall number, lowest in EUR, lowest in NA?Just going for the lowest overall number here; not going to attempt to break it down by continent.
Including only systems in the HB (whether devel systems are included or not), it's 1386.
Adding in systems commented out of systems.csv fills in 56 missing numbers, bringing us up to 1928.
I managed to reduce the missing numbers (0-999) from 93 to 11 :) My lowest missing number is 767 now (https://travelmapping.net/user/routesbynumber.php?u=michih):Code: [Select]Missing Numbers:
767 780 781 797 799 900 960 965 976 987 996
...and to think I went a little out of my way to capture 562, putting me at 577 (though I have it as a county road).
...and to think I went a little out of my way to capture 562, putting me at 577 (though I have it as a county road).
Don't tell Rothman... :-X
Maine Inventory Routes, anyone?Oregon Highways
*runs*
...and to think I went a little out of my way to capture 562, putting me at 577 (though I have it as a county road).
Don't tell Rothman... :-X
I had a trip to Raleigh for a card tournament, and decided to add some miles on new roads in each direction. All told, I clinched NJ 48, I-195 (MD), I-695 (DC), I-395 (DC/VA), I-885 (NC), I-540 (NC), drove all of US 1 in VA and the new US 301 in DE, almost all of US 29 in VA, and finally got the last few miles of the I-495 DC beltway.What kind of cards?
The main focus of the drive to Schenectady for the roadmeet was to clinch NY 31 and NY 5S. While that was successful, I was over an hour late due to a walk clinch and actually driving the full detour of the NY 31 bridge closure over the Erie Canal east of Lyons.
The main focus of the drive to Schenectady for the roadmeet was to clinch NY 31 and NY 5S. While that was successful, I was over an hour late due to a walk clinch and actually driving the full detour of the NY 31 bridge closure over the Erie Canal east of Lyons.
Wow, nice! I haven't even clinched NY 31 and it's almost in my backyard.
And that is one heck of a detour to get around the canal bridge closure via NY 14, 104, and 414. It's way shorter to bypass using Montezuma St, but understood for clinching purposes.
Does anyone else name their trips? I do, sometimes. On Monday this week I completed XIT.I usually have name tags on mine in the text file where I save the route in Google Maps, note projected drive time, meal plans, odds and ends that couldn't be mapped in Google, etc. Then when I write it down, I'll put that in the bottom right as a label (I usually write them down on the back of old receipts). Usually they'll be based on route(s) or region(s) heavily featured, though regions have become less common now that I've largely finished NY. Roadmeets have been used as names, with each leg as "Day 1", "Day 2", "Meet Day", etc. (with a similar system for other multi-day trips, although I have yet to successfully go on one that wasn't tied to a roadmeet or family gathering, leaving me thinking the idea is cursed), although these days I tend to only use the meet name for the meet day itself, with the trips to/from being under the regular system (although that is likely a symptom of my travel being in a smaller radius in the past 3-4 years, resulting in meet trips that are less direct since I'm filling in gaps rather than exploring new territory; I don't think I've had the opportunity to go on a big far-flung trip since my cousin's wedding in 2018).
Should have used the Kraft Dinner excuse. LOL!I would have, except stores don't have the kind you're looking for anymore and I'm sure the border agents are aware of that unfortunate development.
I know they're not in TM yet, but I got some good mileage in Honduras and Nicaragua this past week.
Nicaragua
NIC-1, NIC-3 (clinched), NIC-4, NIC-39, and NN-222 (clinched)
Honduras
CA-3, CA-1, CA-13, and CA-5 (a beautiful drive)
I know they're not in TM yet, but I got some good mileage in Honduras and Nicaragua this past week.
Nicaragua
NIC-1, NIC-3 (clinched), NIC-4, NIC-39, and NN-222 (clinched)
Honduras
CA-3, CA-1, CA-13, and CA-5 (a beautiful drive)
Interesting! Are the highways in these two countries defined accurately enough and signed well enough to make it possible to add them to TM?
Canada wins on food, the USA on root beer
I would have taken only four days, except for a deer colliding with my car on the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/90) the evening of day 3. No injuries, and my car was still drive-able once my rear bumper was remounted the following morning. But lots of other body damage on the driver's side of my car, including both doors and the front fender, which will undoubtedly take a fair amount of money (mostly my insurance company's) and time to fix.
I would have taken only four days, except for a deer colliding with my car on the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/90) the evening of day 3. No injuries, and my car was still drive-able once my rear bumper was remounted the following morning. But lots of other body damage on the driver's side of my car, including both doors and the front fender, which will undoubtedly take a fair amount of money (mostly my insurance company's) and time to fix.
767 780 781 900 960 965 976 996Last days saw me on the road trying to travel as many roads for missing numbers as possible. I was in Belgium and western Germany because beln (https://travelmapping.net/hb/index.php?sys=beln) and deunwl (https://travelmapping.net/hb/index.php?sys=deunwl) have routes up to 998 or 969.
I managed to reduce the missing numbers (0-999) from 93 to 11 :) My lowest missing number is 767 now (https://travelmapping.net/user/routesbynumber.php?u=michih):Code: [Select]Missing Numbers:
767 780 781 797 799 900 960 965 976 987 996
In my near-clinch of NJ 28 (not yet reported) weekend before last, I passed the north end of NJ 59. Saw the blade sign with the 59 on it, even. But it was dark and I was both exhausted and running late so I didn't make the side trip. Some day!
Clinched: NJ 68
Clinched: NJ 68
Did you actually go on base? The zero milepost is inside the gate at Dix-McGuire...
In the meantime, tomorrow is the final day of a 12-day trip for me that took me down to Florida and back to see friends, family, roadgeeks, and the House of the Mouse...including Oscar and Markkos who mentioned it upthread. Did a goodly bit of clinching on the way down and back as well. I'm still "stuck" in 12th place, but I've picked up mileage and clinched routes in 11 states on this trip.
I would have taken only four days, except for a deer colliding with my car on the Indiana Toll Road (I-80/90) the evening of day 3. No injuries, and my car was still drive-able once my rear bumper was remounted the following morning. But lots of other body damage on the driver's side of my car, including both doors and the front fender, which will undoubtedly take a fair amount of money (mostly my insurance company's) and time to fix.
There was also construction further west that had MD 193 four-lane undivided over a bridge. I think this was east of MD 212.
End of 2013: 9,615 mi
End of 2014: 16,818 mi = + 7,203 mi
End of 2015: 19,169 mi = + 2,351 mi
End of 2016: 36,983 mi = +17,814 mi (~5,500mi deub system added)
End of 2017: 58,190 mi = +21,207 mi (~2,500mi deubyst, deubwl, deuhel, deunwl, deurpl, deusll systems added)
End of 2018: 70,811 mi = +12,621 mi (~400mi remaining deuxxl systems added)
End of 2019: 84,520 mi = +13,709 mi
End of 2020: 92,967 mi = + 8,447 mi
End of 2021: 101,111 mi = + 8,144 mi
End of 2022: 112,505 mi = +11,394 mi767 780 781 900 960 965 976 9961000 1018 1065 1067 1069 1094 1109 1139 1146 1166 1167 1169 1174 1176 11781. DEU 44257.62 mi
2. FRA 12181.41 mi
3. ESP 5733.01 mi
4. ITA 5165.52 mi
5. GBR 4987.89 mi
6. SWE 4255.68 mi
7. POL 3391.17 mi
8. FIN 2732.99 mi
9. DNK 2606.70 mi
10. CHE 2394.03 miWith no new travels expected before the year is out, I was looking at my jt2022 stats to see how things went for the year. I traveled on a little over 10,000 miles of TM-clinchable routes in 25 states plus DC. No international travel this year.
With no new travels expected before the year is out, I was looking at my jt2022 stats to see how things went for the year. I traveled on a little over 10,000 miles of TM-clinchable routes in 25 states plus DC. No international travel this year.
Interesting! I was thinking about doing the same. How do you pull your stats for a single year? I have my .list file organized by date so I could copy everything from 2022 to a separate .list file and and submit that to be uploaded, but I wasn't sure if that was the easiest way to do it.
- May 2021: I finally set out to finish my remaining stretch of US52, from Wytheville, Virginia to the end in Charleston. This was a longtime goal for me; I grew up with US52 out my front door, and this was one I'd traced on atlases as a kid. I got NW Illinois to the Twin Cities in 2003, the Twin Cities to Portal, ND (and across the Canadian border) in 2007, and Indianapolis to Wytheville in 2011. Having scouted out the southern (eastern?) terminus on GMSV, I was prepared for the lack of an END shield but was a tad disappointed that I couldn't get a photo. (South Carolina was also my 50th state, which I still think is pretty good for being 39 at the time.)
- Clinched ON 405, though I'm not sure how I had part but not all of it before. Was it not connected up to QEW until fairly recently (like, in the last 10+ years)?
I also reduced my "missing numbers" on the route numbers table by 10 (to 13) and passed 200,000 segments traveled.
I'm on the last day of my own Kentucky trip, but need to figure out how to get home from the westernmost tip of KY while avoiding more cold, or otherwise bad weather.
I'm on the last day of my own Kentucky trip, but need to figure out how to get home from the westernmost tip of KY while avoiding more cold, or otherwise bad weather.
Maybe this (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?units=miles&u=mapcat&r=ky.ky0661) won't take you too far out of the way. Stay warm!
By far my biggest clinch of the day is one that has been laughing at me for years....I-87. I'd been missing between Exits 31 and 33 on the Northway until this afternoon.
In North Tonawanda, I made a wrong turn onto the NY429 truck route, which is very short, but clearly signed. It connects NY265/384 to NY429 along Robinson and Oliver streets. I'm not sure whether that's worthy of adding to the site.
There's 2 Wegman's not far from the Thruway that don't require traipsing north of 481 (granted, neither has a Chik-Fil-A nearby).
then cut across to I-590/New York 590 to get to New York 286. I drove that for the first time and went end-to-end.
First travels on:
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US 50 Truck (not in HB...this is posted from WV 18 SB in West Union, running both directions on Old US 50 through West Union)
I'm back from a 25 days long road trip through the Balkans, i.e. through southeast Europe.
Do the rumble strips sound like clarinets?
Some (non-TM-related) highlights of the travel:
- The Hungarian road 67 (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=hun.f067) was recently upgraded to an expressway. It is a dual carriageway with at-grade intersections. It is a quite boring ride. However, there is a music road section (https://maps.app.goo.gl/eJDBRa2xKAQyY17n7). While driving over the rumble strips, you can generate music :)
Do the rumble strips sound like clarinets?
Some (non-TM-related) highlights of the travel:
- The Hungarian road 67 (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=hun.f067) was recently upgraded to an expressway. It is a dual carriageway with at-grade intersections. It is a quite boring ride. However, there is a music road section (https://maps.app.goo.gl/eJDBRa2xKAQyY17n7). While driving over the rumble strips, you can generate music :)
Just returned from a few days in Cincinnati…
New clinches in order: KY 9, I-471 (OH), OH 562, I-275 (OH/IN/KY), OH 32, OH 561, US 22 (OH)
This gives me a national clinch of US 22.
Just returned from a few days in Cincinnati…
New clinches in order: KY 9, I-471 (OH), OH 562, I-275 (OH/IN/KY), OH 32, OH 561, US 22 (OH)
This gives me a national clinch of US 22.
I have a hard time believing that I have already clinched all of these routes before you minus KY 9.
I also did TX Lp 48 in Canyon (as it's marked out on TM), though it was completely unsigned - technically first to clinch, but I'm not sure whether it will remain on TM.No signs = it's got to go. :(
I got new mileage on TX Lp 335 through the southeast edge of Amarillo (leaving only the northeastern quarter left to drive another time)Congrats on being the first (and so far only) traveler on TX TXLp335SWA -- with a full clinch no less! :D
While in the area, did you happen to notice...
Is the new alignment still closed between I-40 and 9th Ave?
Is the old alignment on Soncy Rd still also signed for Loop 335? Is it signed as as extension of FM2590 now?
A trip to Palm Springs / Indio CA last weekend got me a little bit of CA 111 and I-10. No car (and minimal time) reduced opportunities to get a whole lot of mileage. Probably no new mileage coming until December.
Sounds like a cello.Do the rumble strips sound like clarinets?
Some (non-TM-related) highlights of the travel:
- The Hungarian road 67 (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=hun.f067) was recently upgraded to an expressway. It is a dual carriageway with at-grade intersections. It is a quite boring ride. However, there is a music road section (https://maps.app.goo.gl/eJDBRa2xKAQyY17n7). While driving over the rumble strips, you can generate music :)
:D No, it's deeper:
Edit: I didn't know that there are so many "musical roads" around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road
Driving PA 23 end to end was lovely, but it takes forever…PA 23 from Bridgeport to City Line is a pain in the tush. I can't imagine going from US 1 to the Susquehanna.
On December 15th, my mom and I did another Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ (SCNB) trip that focused on the Triad this time.
On December 15th, my mom and I did another Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ (SCNB) trip that focused on the Triad this time.
I love how your trips with your mom always include a stop at Smithfield's. Is that your kind gesture towards her, something that provides her with an incentive to spend hours in the car? Or is it a destination both of you appreciate equally? I've been to a few of those, and never had a bad meal to be sure.
End of 2013: 9,615 mi
End of 2014: 16,818 mi = + 7,203 mi
End of 2015: 19,169 mi = + 2,351 mi
End of 2016: 36,983 mi = +17,814 mi (~5,500mi deub system added)
End of 2017: 58,190 mi = +21,207 mi (~2,500mi deubyst, deubwl, deuhel, deunwl, deurpl, deusll systems added)
End of 2018: 70,811 mi = +12,621 mi (~400mi remaining deuxxl systems added)
End of 2019: 84,520 mi = +13,709 mi
End of 2020: 92,967 mi = + 8,447 mi
End of 2021: 101,111 mi = + 8,144 mi
End of 2022: 112,505 mi = +11,394 mi
End of 2023: 126,035 mi = +13,530 mi767 780 781 9001000 1018 1065 1067 1069 1094 1109 1139 1146 1166 1167 1169 1174 1176 11781. DEU 50803.07 mi
2. FRA 12893.93 mi
3. ESP 5732.75 mi
4. ITA 5167.77 mi
5. GBR 4771.25 mi
6. SWE 4245.90 mi
7. POL 3414.73 mi
8. ROU 3046.20 mi
9. FIN 2732.99 mi
10. AUT 2679.87 miHowever, the predicted bad weather for the region (several inches of snow and single-digit °F temps) caused me to cut a day out and hurry home on Sunday, so everything west of West Memphis got eliminated. Video from Memphis TV news assured me I'd made the right choice; while snow amounts were mostly limited to about 3" this morning, snow removal appeared to be going very slowly, and salt/brine isn't particularly effective that far below freezing.
However, the predicted bad weather for the region (several inches of snow and single-digit °F temps) caused me to cut a day out and hurry home on Sunday, so everything west of West Memphis got eliminated. Video from Memphis TV news assured me I'd made the right choice; while snow amounts were mostly limited to about 3" this morning, snow removal appeared to be going very slowly, and salt/brine isn't particularly effective that far below freezing.
Ironically, I was supposed to go to Memphis this week, but my driveway and neighborhood were also snowed and completely iced over. Never made it out of the driveway; I was only able to dig it out this morning when the temps finally went above freezing. We only have snow removal on our major roads, and people in the neighborhood reported that they couldn't get over the icy hills just a short distance away from the of our development.
No, nothing that exciting...the usual software training.However, the predicted bad weather for the region (several inches of snow and single-digit °F temps) caused me to cut a day out and hurry home on Sunday, so everything west of West Memphis got eliminated. Video from Memphis TV news assured me I'd made the right choice; while snow amounts were mostly limited to about 3" this morning, snow removal appeared to be going very slowly, and salt/brine isn't particularly effective that far below freezing.
Ironically, I was supposed to go to Memphis this week, but my driveway and neighborhood were also snowed and completely iced over. Never made it out of the driveway; I was only able to dig it out this morning when the temps finally went above freezing. We only have snow removal on our major roads, and people in the neighborhood reported that they couldn't get over the icy hills just a short distance away from the of our development.
You were going to the International Blues Challenge (aka the IBC)?
SR 785 is also a narrow and twisty road for the most part.
779-785 was removed from the primary system in the 1945 and 1950.
Lowest overall number, lowest in EUR, lowest in NA?Just going for the lowest overall number here; not going to attempt to break it down by continent.
Including only systems in the HB (whether devel systems are included or not), it's 1386.
Adding in systems commented out of systems.csv fills in 56 missing numbers, bringing us up to 1928.
The end of game for Europe is 1185 with routes in DEU-BW (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=deubw.l1185) (I've traveled long ago) and ENG (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=eng.a1185). Only KY and LA have a 1186 route in HB so far and I don't expect anything new for Europe.
767 780 781 900
It looks like my car-specific alternate user "a3" is done adding TM mileage. I've tracked my travels in my 2015 Audi A3 since I bought it 5 1/2 years ago. It finishes with 6573 TM miles from the 92,000+ miles I put on the car. Its engine failed last week with only 101,000 miles on the car, and it's becoming clear it doesn't make sense to repair (which would require an engine replacement).
Not sure what I'll do next, as I wasn't planning financially for a car replacement any time soon. I hate car loans in any circumstance, but when interest rates are what they are, it's especially unappealing to go much beyond what I could put toward a car from savings.
It looks like my car-specific alternate user "a3" is done adding TM mileage. I've tracked my travels in my 2015 Audi A3 since I bought it 5 1/2 years ago. It finishes with 6573 TM miles from the 92,000+ miles I put on the car. Its engine failed last week with only 101,000 miles on the car, and it's becoming clear it doesn't make sense to repair (which would require an engine replacement).
Not sure what I'll do next, as I wasn't planning financially for a car replacement any time soon. I hate car loans in any circumstance, but when interest rates are what they are, it's especially unappealing to go much beyond what I could put toward a car from savings.
That sunglasses whenever I put a parentheses after an 8 is super-annoying....
That sunglasses whenever I put a parentheses after an 8 is super-annoying....
I could fix that, but it would break all previous usages of that emote that were proper. However, this was an issue from the start with SMF, as they were the ones that chose that text for the emote.
8) -> 8-)
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I was surprised by the highway density within London as opposed to so many U.S. cities where highways are routed around or co-routed through cities (except I guess Kentucky!).When the roads were first numbered, 101 years ago, the counties/boroughs maintained everything and classification was about how much money they'd get from the national government to look after them (Class I 'A' roads getting more per mile than Class II 'B' roads which in turn get more than other roads - and it's still somewhat the case, though isn't quite the case anymore). As such a very large and dense network formed across the country*, and continued to do so after a limited amount were 'trunked' (ie national government took over the maintenance and improvement of).
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.
When the roads were first numbered, 101 years ago, the counties/boroughs maintained everything and classification was about how much money they'd get from the national government to look after them (Class I 'A' roads getting more per mile than Class II 'B' roads which in turn get more than other roads - and it's still somewhat the case, though isn't quite the case anymore). As such a very large and dense network formed across the country*, and continued to do so after a limited amount were 'trunked' (ie national government took over the maintenance and improvement of).
And then I promptly got secondaried at the Canadian border checkpoint. Maybe I should have left something easier for last.
^ Out of curiosity, does your clinch of New Jersey's system actually include the leg of NJ 68 inside the gate at Fort Dix?Just the part to the north of the gate.
I only have three more state highways in CA, 45, 82, and 113. 45 and 113 are N/S routes in the northern Central Valley, probably not that interesting, and skipped so far because I'm usually going across the Central Valley, not up and down it. But I'm likely to do another trip from SoCal up to Canada this summer, and will get those out of the way (and may clinch US-89 too). CA-82 is more of a problem, because it's a really long urban street that looks like it has a few hundred traffic lights on it. But if that's all that's between me and clinching California, I'll probably suck it up and force myself to do it.
What I've learned is that obsessing about clinching roads sometimes helps you discover interesting places, but it also drags you into a lot of boring places. Having clinched most of California, I feel relieved that I can now choose to go places based purely on whether they're nice places to go.
I have clinched my first larger region now: Baden-Württemberg (https://travelmapping.net/user/region.php?u=michih&rg=DEU-BW) with more than 9,000 miles :) I traveled the last five sections yesterday, which were under construction earlier this year. Of course, I also clinched the deubwl system now.
I'm already at 93.57% for Bavaria (https://travelmapping.net/user/region.php?u=michih&rg=DEU-BY) with its almost 14,000 miles, the largest German region. I'll try to clinch 99.x% this winter but there is also some long-term construction and I will likely only be able to reach 100% in 2024.
I traveled a lot through Germany* during the pandemic and have clinched 77.25% of the German federal road system deub (https://travelmapping.net/user/system.php?u=michih&sys=deub) now, and I have over 50% in all states (only RP is below 60%). The total clinch rate was 67.79% at the end of 2021. 58.95% at the end of 2020, 41.85% 2019, 35.4% 2018, 29.3% 2017, and 24.0% at the end of 2016.
Lowest overall number, lowest in EUR, lowest in NA?Just going for the lowest overall number here; not going to attempt to break it down by continent.
Including only systems in the HB (whether devel systems are included or not), it's 1386.
Adding in systems commented out of systems.csv fills in 56 missing numbers, bringing us up to 1928.
The end of game for Europe is 1185 with routes in DEU-BW (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=deubw.l1185) (I've traveled long ago) and ENG (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?r=eng.a1185). Only KY and LA have a 1186 route in HB so far and I don't expect anything new for Europe.
With North Macedonia Regional Roads (https://travelmapping.net/hb/?sys=mkdr) and Upper Austria Landesstraßen 2. Ordnung (https://travelmapping.net/hb/?sys=autl42), the lowest missing overall number is 1478 now (for Europe: 1323). I have a new goals now 8)
Either way, I really like this "employer-sponsored clinching" thing.A clinch of ME124 followed by the southern 31% of ME140.
Took I-190 and re-clinched a piece of NY 324 around exit 20, since I drove it EB and TM only recognizes the WB direction here.Say whaaat? Hey now, that simply ain't so! :D
I'm skeptical that US 6 Bus in Gary actually exists.
would've had US 35 but Indiana loves to completely close highways for construction (they did this to me with US 224 a while back, too).
would've had US 35 but Indiana loves to completely close highways for construction (they did this to me with US 224 a while back, too).
Many Midwestern states do this.
US 6 Bus is only posted at IN 53, IN 55, and I-65 (basically posted in just Gary). Not posted at either end and there’s no mile markers or bridge reference markers.
US 6 Bus is only posted at IN 53, IN 55, and I-65 (basically posted in just Gary). Not posted at either end and there’s no mile markers or bridge reference markers.
^ Presuming you rolled back via Minnesota, we'd have been in the state at the same time. I just flew back from Minneapolis today.Heck, Mapmikey was within 20 miles of Mapcat & myself.
I also grabbed pieces of ME 22 and ME 9 in Portland to clean that up, which may have been a mistake given how early everything closes thereJa get caught in rush hour traffic? If you were looking for a place to eat and didn't see much, you gotta get a little off the (roadgeekly) beaten path and head in town around Congress St or the Old Port, Fore St area-ish. There's also The Great Lost Bear on Forest Ave (US302), where mapcat & I met up a few years back.
the signed but "might not actually be part of the route" north end of ME 77 to ME 100Wait... OK I see what you mean. (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6599952,-70.2688023,3a,15y,241.63h,91.62t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sBG_XVKPsB0KBwx8Ix4EuVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i50?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) That's just a missing TO (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6606999,-70.2689075,3a,17.8y,139.48h,107.76t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sj2QVuVr_5YJ1BYCnG6Wb5w!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dj2QVuVr_5YJ1BYCnG6Wb5w%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D157.62566%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i50?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). There's an END (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6574106,-70.2666538,3a,25.1y,12.1h,91.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-anKNGZrrArWli0og1JQhQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) sign northbound.
Got delayed going through Franconia notch and down US 302, and then made the mistake of still trying to do everything. I probably should have punted on the ME 22/ME 9 stuff to Sunday or skipped it entirely, but I didn't realize that getting dinner near my hotel would become an issue.I also grabbed pieces of ME 22 and ME 9 in Portland to clean that up, which may have been a mistake given how early everything closes thereJa get caught in rush hour traffic? If you were looking for a place to eat and didn't see much, you gotta get a little off the (roadgeekly) beaten path and head in town around Congress St or the Old Port, Fore St area-ish. There's also The Great Lost Bear on Forest Ave (US302), where mapcat & I met up a few years back.the signed but "might not actually be part of the route" north end of ME 77 to ME 100Wait... OK I see what you mean. (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6599952,-70.2688023,3a,15y,241.63h,91.62t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sBG_XVKPsB0KBwx8Ix4EuVw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i50?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) That's just a missing TO (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6606999,-70.2689075,3a,17.8y,139.48h,107.76t/data=!3m10!1e1!3m8!1sj2QVuVr_5YJ1BYCnG6Wb5w!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3Dj2QVuVr_5YJ1BYCnG6Wb5w%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D157.62566%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i50?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D). There's an END (https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6574106,-70.2666538,3a,25.1y,12.1h,91.8t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-anKNGZrrArWli0og1JQhQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) sign northbound.
WRT ME77, the City of Portland has plans to covert State & High streets to 2-way traffic. I am not happy about this.
Looks like you're still working on vdeane.list, judging by the stuff near the NH/ME line.
Your US2 travels around Bethel looked fine before though?
Incidentally, I did the .list update last night, but it looks like a site update hasn't been run since Saturday night.
I wonder what the street conversion would mean for the ME 77 designation. Would it still be split, or would it shift to one over the other, and if so, which? I only did State, so it sounds like I might need to come back and do the other side.State, I would expect, if they wanna keep a more direct thru from where the Casco Bay Bridge touches down.
As for US 2, that route had previously been driven on during a college trip to the Common Ground Fair in 2009.HA! I KNEW IT! (https://travelmapping.net/hb/showroute.php?units=miles&u=vdeane&r=me.me139&lat=44.60355&lon=-69.295347&zoom=14) :D
We had one person who carpooled to go home during break, and we dropped her off in Bethel so her parents could take her the rest of the way. The thing is, my marked travels were a fudge since I wasn't entirely sure which way we went through and not wanting to have a gap. I'm 75% sure it was this (https://www.google.com/maps/dir/44.409186,-70.7985492/44.4126178,-70.7956059/@44.4097349,-70.8032449,14.88z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m5!3m4!1m2!1d-70.7878904!2d44.4122701!3s0x4cb3c4d456db70e7:0xddebdec3853aaea5!1m0!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D), so the logic of "if I looked left when we turned back on I'd essentially have a sight clinch" was the really sketchy logic I used, but truth be told, I couldn't be sure what I had from the interchange to Rumford (which I have photo evidence for and distinctly remember because of all the turns). Thus, I went back through and fixed it, ensuring that my marked travels are actually representative there. I don't have any other such spots marked on my re-clinch list (although it will happen again whenever the new NY 12E bridge opens, since I don't want to go to the trouble to un-mark and then re-mark it).LOL I know what you mean. I'm missing like one block of PA US13 somewhere around 48th-49th St, where I traveled much of the nearby stuff on foot.
I ended up picking up a small piece of VT 25 as well because VTrans apparently would rather close I-91 SB in its entirety rather than build a crossover while it deals with a slope failure that has no reopening ETA.
End of 2013: 9,615 mi
End of 2014: 16,818 mi | + 7,203 mi
End of 2015: 19,169 mi | + 2,351 mi
End of 2016: 36,983 mi | +17,814 mi (~5,500mi deub system added)
End of 2017: 58,190 mi | +21,207 mi (~2,500mi deubyst, deubwl, deuhel, deunwl, deurpl, deusll systems added)
End of 2018: 70,811 mi | +12,621 mi (~ 400mi remaining deuxxl systems added)
End of 2019: 84,520 mi | +13,709 mi
End of 2020: 92,967 mi | + 8,447 mi
End of 2021: 101,111 mi | + 8,144 mi
End of 2022: 112,505 mi | +11,394 mi
End of 2023: 126,035 mi | +13,530 mi
End of 2024: 140,911 mi | +14,876 mi780 781780 781 1194 1245 1264 1269 1275 1292 1304 1310 1317 13211. DEU 53501.06 mi
2. FRA 14875.25 mi
3. ITA 7418.81 mi
4. SWE 5755.95 mi
5. ESP 5732.88 mi
6. GBR 4986.86 mi
7. AUT 4720.73 mi
8. POL 3419.17 mi
9. ROU 3051.45 mi
10. FIN 2732.99 mi