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« Last post by oscar on Yesterday at 01:20:26 pm »
I got back home last week from a three-week cross-country road trip. After a mostly-Interstates leg to South Dakota, I turned south on US 183. With some zigzagging to minimize duplication of already-clinched US 183 mileage, I clinched the rest of US 183 (including parts on toll road frontage roads in the Austin area), ending up in Texas east of San Marcos TX. From there, I veered west mainly on Interstate and US routes (some new mileage for me) toward southern California.
One stop on that leg was the artsy-fartsy town of Marfa, on US 90. I hung out there for a few hours, hoping to score some Christmas gifts for relatives. Alas, I got there in the off-season, so some of the shops I wanted to visit were closed for the season or had reduced hours. The biggest disappointment was the Hey I Like It Here shop. It turned out that the shop was permanently closed just before I got to Marfa. The shopkeeper had moved to New Mexico, so I guess she didn't "Like It Here" that much.
From there, I explored the relocation in progress of US 395 west of Death Valley. A pull request will follow for the part of the project which has been more or less completed so far. I reclinched-in-advance the new US 395 alignment, which was open southbound when I was there and is supposed to open northbound today. Other parts of the project will de-clinch for me CA 190, maybe next time. I also took advantage of the reasonably cool weather to zip east through Death Valley NP, clinching Daylight Pass Rd. into Nevada.
From there, I zigzagged through southern Utah, northern Arizona, and northern New Mexico. While there, I drove part of US 550 near Durango CO that had been relocated earlier this year.
After a resupply stop in the Albuquerque area, I headed east on I-40, then weaving south toward I-20 to avoid bad weather in Oklahoma. From Ft. Worth, a mostly-straight shot east on I-20 and I-95, dodging storm damage in the western Carolinas, to get home. That should do it for my travels this year, other than relatively short trips to relatives in south central PA.
Route clinches:
US 183 (end-to-end, SD-TX)
KS 156
KS 264
TX 142
TX 223
FM 1112 (not yet in TM) to Marfa's recycling center, so I could properly dispose of all the empty aluminum soda cans rattling around in my car
AZ 80
AZ 86
AZ 195 (in the Yuma area, got there after Jim visited)
Colorado Ave. Extension in Glendale CA, a short state-maintained freeway which has been suggested for addition to TM
US 395 (end-to-end, reclinched for reroute west of Death Valley)
Daylight Pass Rd. (CA-NV, Death Valley NP)
UT 7
UT 59
AZ 389
AZ/NM 264
US 550 (end-to-end, reclinched for reroute in Durango CO)
NM 122
NM 170/CO 140
NM 313
NM 315
NM 371
NM 423
NM 428
NM 448
NM 473
NM 556
NM 612
TX Loop 335
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