New Travels and Stats Discussion

[froggie]

Coincidentally, I was in Portland myself on Friday with my wife, visiting a former student of hers who works there.  Didn't realize it at the time, but the Google Maps-recommended direct route to Freeport from the Kancamacus gave me additional mileage on ME 11, ME 121, ME 85, and a short bit of US 202.

Bird & Company in Woodfords Corner (the junction of US 302/ME 9) has very excellent tacos.

Heading home, did not run into the Notch traffic issues Val complained about, despite the plethora of Mass plates heading north on 93 (almost all of whom departed at Exit 35).

[vdeane]

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 there

Ja 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 100

Wait... OK I see what you mean. That's just a missing TO. There's an END 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?

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 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.

As for US 2, that route had previously been driven on during a college trip to the Common Ground Fair in 2009.  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, 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).

Incidentally, I did the .list update last night, but it looks like a site update hasn't been run since Saturday night.

[Jim]

Incidentally, I did the .list update last night, but it looks like a site update hasn't been run since Saturday night.

Somehow I completely forgot to run last night's updates.  Tonight's are running now.

[yakra]

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.
OTOH, if they want to keep thru traffic from cutting across the peninsula, terminating it at US1A isn't out of the question. (CT34 ending at CT10, anyone?) But that may not be likely if the anachronistic ends of 26, 100 & 22 are any indication.

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!

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, 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.

[Jim]

A trip to Flagstaff for a conference, which lined up with the fall break in my teaching schedule, gave me a chance to do some extra traveling in the southwest over the last few days.  I flew into Las Vegas, drove via southern Utah and northern Arizona to Flagstaff.  After the conference, I drove to Phoenix.  I had a day (today) to take a long loop over into southeastern California: basically I-10/CA 78/CA 111/I-8/I-10.   I will fly back home out of Phoenix in the morning.  I put over 1200 miles on the rental car.

Many of those miles were new TM mileage for me, getting me about 780 miles here.

By region: a little over 500 miles new in Arizona, over 150 in California, about 80 in Nevada, and 32 in Utah.

By system: just short of 400 miles in usai (mostly I-8 and I-10, some I-11 even though it was never mentioned on a sign anywhere on the part I drove, and giving me all of I-10 except 120 miles east of San Antonio), 5 miles in usaib (first travels on I-8 BL Yuma), 13 in usasf (first travels on Clark County 215), 115 miles in usaus, 83 miles in usausb (first travels on US 89A), 60+ miles in usaaz (first travels on 5 routes, 2 new clinches), almost 100 miles in usaca (first travels on 2 routes), 17 miles in usanv (first travels on 3 routes, 1 new clinch), 32 miles in usaut (first travels on 3 routes, 1 new clinch), and about a block in usaush (1 new route).

With all of that, I picked up just one new county: Yuma, AZ.

[Markkos1992]

My trip report for the Nashville trip in September can be accessed here.

10/5/2024 Mostly PA Trip

I started the morning taking the expected US 322 WB to I-99 SB/US 220 SB to US 219 NB to US 422 WB to PA 488 west of Butler.  I clinched PA 488 by taking it to PA 65/PA 288 in Ellwood City (hi Arthur!!), and then clinched PA 351 by taking it west into Ohio, and clinched OH 617 by taking it west to OH 165.  I then took OH 165 WB to OH 626 NB (over I-76/Ohio Turnpike with OH 164) to OH 7 where I stopped at the nearby Sheetz.  Due to a closure on Western Reserve Road, I technically had to take OH 7 SB to turn around and head back north, but this was one of those times that I wished that I just turned left illegally onto OH 7 NB instead with it still being dark on a Saturday Morning.  I continued north on OH 7 to Youngstown towards I-680 NB ultimately taking I-680 NB to OH 193 NB to US 422 WB.  I would take US 422 WB to OH 304 EB through Hubbard back into PA via PA 318.

Once I got to I-376 in West Middlesex, I would loop around that area a bit to view the area with the I-376/PA 318 interchange recently being reopened after the bridge strike last year that closed the bridge for many months.  I would then take PA 318 EB to Mercer and then take US 62 SB back to Hermitage with one last trip to the I-80/I-376 interchange to get photos that were not as sun-glared as earlier.  I would then reclinch PA 760 by taking it to Downtown Sharon, do a brief US 62 BUS/Connelly Blvd/Water St loop, and head north to PA 846 via PA 718.  I clinched PA 846 by taking it to PA 18 in Greenville where I would pick up PA 358 EB and take it to Sandy Lake with a PA 173/PA 965 loop to close the gap in US 62 that had recently reopened.  I then took US 62 NB to Franklin where I was detoured onto local side streets due to an event, but I really should have taken US 322 WB to PA 417 NB to Front St to get back to US 62/PA 8 at the Sheetz I would stop at.

After the Sheetz stop, I would take US 62 NB all the way to Warren completing my clinch of US 62 in PA and also completing all US Route mileage for me in PA.  In regard to US 62, I now have it fully clinched north of OH 173 and Atlantic Blvd in Alliance, OH.  I did detour in Warren some via US 6, Crescent Park, Pennsylvania Ave, and Market St noticing that US 6 BUS may have been realigned as a result of the recent roundabout project at the Pennsylvania Ave/Market St intersection.  I picked up US 62 NB again and took it to NY 60 south of Jamestown, and took NY 60 NB through Jamestown to I-86/NY 17.  I took I-86 WB past the bridge construction at Chautauqua Lake to turn around at NY 394, and then went east on I-86 to NY 280.  I took NY 280 south into PA and took PA 346 EB to PA 321 SB.  I clinched PA 321 by taking it south to US 219 in Wilcox.  From there, it was mostly the simple US 219 SB to PA 153 SB to US 322 EB drive back to Harrisburg.  However, I dodged some of the congestion on US 322 EB leaving Boalsburg after the Penn State game by taking Warner Blvd to PA 45 EB to PA 144 SB reentering US 322 at Potter's Mill Gap.

Clinched:  PA 488, PA 351, OH 617, OH 626, OH 304, PA 318, US 62 (PA), PA 846, PA 321

New Mileage: PA 168, OH 170, OH 165, OH 164, OH 7, PA 18, PA 358, NY 60, I-86 (NY), NY 17

10/12/2024-10/14/2024 Weekend Trip

I went to my parents' house for the weekend since I had Monday off for the holiday that I guess will change names again in two weeks.  Minus another look for WV 243 signage, I just went the normal I-81 SB to US 17 SB to I-95 SB on Friday.

On Saturday my mom and I did another NC trip to eat at Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ along with clinching the new section of NC 540 and the newly signed I-42. 

We started just after 5 AM taking US 460 WB from Petersburg to US 29 SB in Lynchburg.  We continued on US 29 south to Chatham where we took US 29 BUS SB to VA 57 WB to VA 41 SB clinching VA 41 once we got to US 29 BUS in Danville. After a loop to clinch Piedmont Drive and a Sheetz stop on US 58 BUS, we went south on VA 86 (reclinching VA 398 along the way) into NC taking NC 86 SB to Hillsborough completing the clinch when we got to NC 57.  We took NC 86 SB to I-85 NB to NC 147 SB to I-885 SB to NC 885 SB to NC 540 EB completing the new section when we got to I-40 in Garner.  We then took I-40 EB to NC 210 (Exit 319) turned around taking I-40 WB to Person St/Hammond Rd (Exit 299) and turned around again onto I-40 EB in order to see the completed widening project from I-87/I-440 (Exit 301) to NC 42/Cleveland Rd (Exits 312A-B).  We got off at Cleveland Rd taking it north to NC 42 EB crossing I-40 at the new Diverging Diamond Interchange to go to the Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ on the east side of the interchange.

From there, we took I-40 WB to NC 540 WB turning around at NC 50 to take US 70 (Future I-42) EB (and US 70 BYP EB in Selma) to Goldsboro, taking the I-42 EB Goldsboro Bypass, and then continuing east on US 70 to NC 148 EB (clinching it) to NC 11 NB north of Kinston.  We stayed on NC 11 NB through Greenville (where we saw at least one Wawa being built) and stayed on it past the long NC 42 concurrency all the way to its northern end along US 258 at US 158 BUS in Murfreesboro (not to be confused with the one in TN covered on the Nashville trip).  From there I took US 258 NB and US 258 BUS NB into Franklin, VA, (not TN or PA), and took College Drive past Armory Drive to clarify my clinch of VA 379.  I went back to US 258 NB and took Pretlow St/Rd (SR 714 in Southampton County) to VA 189 NB driving the new bridge over the Blackwater River  (replacing the former truss) back to US 258 NB to US 460 WB in Windsor back towards my parents' house.  (and US 258 should really be rerouted onto VA 189 now, but I digress)

Clinched: VA 41, NC/VA 86, VA 398 (reclinch), NC 540, I-42 (Clayton, NC) (reclinch), NC 148, VA 379 (reclinch)

New Mileage: US 70 (NC), NC 11, NC 903, US 13 (NC), NC 42

On October 14, I basically did a bunch of things with relatively little clinching.  I took I-295 NB to I-95 NB to SR 606 WB in Thornburg to US 1 NB and looped around the Cosner Corners area to view the new four-lane bridge over I-95.  From there I took I-95 NB to Northern Virginia and took I-395 NB to VA 120 NB to drive the new alignment of Columbia Pike (still VA 244 in Travel Mapping and on signage) backtracking to I-395 via VA 27 and the George Washington Memorial Pkwy.  I took I-395 NB into DC and I-695 EB to DC 295 NB (reclinching it and usadc  ).  Once in Maryland, I took MD 201 NB to MD 410 WB past MD 500 (the reason for MD 500 being mentioned will be revealed at a later date) to MD 212 NB to Cherry Hill Rd/Randolph Rd to MD 650 NB to Norwood Rd to MD 182 NB to MD 108 WB to MD 97 NB.  I went to Brookeville along MD 97 to clinch what is now MD 97 BUS (Brookeville) though currently the only signs are the old MD 97 shields at the turn at High St/Market St intersection.

From there, I took MD 97 NB to I-70 EB to I-695 Inner through congestion and crashes west of Towson to I-95 NB to see the Express Lanes construction north of MD 43.  I continued on I-95 NB all the way to MD 279 NB (so no Newark toll), stopped at the Wawa at the MD 277/MD 279 intersection, and took MD 279 NB into DE to again clinch DE 279 and took DE 896 NB into Newark seeing this FYA before heading into PA.  I left PA 896 NB (after driving by 896 Pie) at PA 841 taking it north to PA 41.  I turned onto PA 41 NB taking it to PA 926 and stopped for a bit to tour the newly opened roundabout at the PA 41/PA 926 intersection.  From there I continued north on PA 41 NB to US 30 WB in Gap, and changed things up a bit this time by taking PA 772 WB from there through Intercourse to Lititz.  In Lititz I decided to take PA 501 NB to Lincoln Ave to drive the Doe Run Rd corridor between Lititz and Manheim because it was part of a proposed rerouting of PA 772.  Once in Manheim I picked up PA 772 WB again and took PA 283 WB to Toll House Rd south to PA 230 WB into Middletown so that I could stop by the new Wawa (first Wawa in the Harrisburg area) by the Harrisburg Int'l Airport.  I then took the Airport Connector Road to PA 283 WB to I-283 NB back to Harrisburg from there.


10-26-2024 PA Trip

I started the day by doing the usual US 22 WB/US 322 WB to US 11 NB/US 15 NB to PA 147 NB to I-180 WB to PA 405 NB to US 220 NB to Dushore where I took PA 87 NB to PA 187 NB to Wyalusing-New Albany Rd to US 6 EB.  I took US 6 EB to Laceyville where I picked up PA 367 NB clinching it when I got to PA 267; however, I looped to clinch PA 367 TRUCK, which I am not planning to add to Travel Mapping as the weight-restricted bridge that created it will be replaced fairly soon.  I then took PA 267 NB to PA 706 EB taking it past the PA 29/PA 167 concurrency all the way east to US 11 to complete the clinch of PA 706 that I worked on west of PA 267 back in September.  I then took US 11 NB to New Milford clinching PA 492 and PA 848 before finally taking PA 547 south to US 11 again in Kingsley.  After turning onto US 11 SB, I almost immediately turn left again on PA 106 EB clinching it when I finally got to Carbondale.  I then took US 6 BUS WB to PA 107 WB after a Sheetz stop at the US 6 BUS/Meredith St intersection.  I then took PA 107 WB to PA 247 SB to PA 438 WB to PA 524 WB (turning around at PA 407) to PA 347 SB.  (I honestly do not understand why PA 347 does not continue to PA 438, but PA 524 does...) I took PA 347 SB to I-81 SB/US 6 EB in Dunmore completing the clinch of that route since I did it west of I-81 in July 2020 on the way to the Utica Meet.  I immediately exited onto I-84 EB/I-380 SB and then exited via the new right-hand exit onto PA 435 SB and clinched PA 435 by staying on it all the way to PA 507 by I-380 (Exit 13).

I then took PA 507 NB to PA 447 SB (while on the PA 191/PA 507 concurrency) and clinched PA 447 when I got to PA 191 north of Stroudsburg.  I then took PA 191 SB to Stroudsburg, and took US 209 BUS SB to US 209 SB to PA 33 NB (via turning around at the Snydersville interchange).  I photographed the PA 33/PA 611 intersection and even took a selfie with the error US 33/US 611 shields in the parking lot of a closed bank (someone drove by after using the ATM, but thankfully we saw each other and did not impede each other).  From there, I took PA 33 SB to I-78 WB to I-81 SB back to Harrisburg (stopping for some Wawa at the I-78/PA 61 interchange and seeing a U-Haul in the median of I-81 between I-78 and PA 934).  Note that the I-78 Schuylkill River Bridge project looks like it will be complete soon.

Clinched:  PA 367, PA 706, PA 492, PA 547, PA 848, PA 106, PA 524, PA 347, PA 435, PA 447

New Mileage: PA 167, PA 374, PA 247, PA 690


I also went on a Metrotrails hike at the Spruce Run Reservoir in Clinton, NJ, on November 2nd, but that was just me redriving I-78, US 22, and NJ 31.

[vdeane]

Yesterday I got back from a two-day trip to finish up US 3 and take care of a couple other things.  On Saturday, I drove up to my room for the night in Gorham, NH, taking I-90, I-290, and I-495 though MA to I-95.  In NH, I took a short detour to clinch the southern end of Spaulding Turnpike (the ramps to/from the south with I-95) even though it isn't on the site, and continued into Maine.  I took exit 63 and US 202 west out of Maine, extending that mileage to a logical (and known; where it was before was just a guess, since this was part of the same Maine trip that has left odd artifacts across the state in terms of clinching and while I remember exactly where the house was that we stayed one night is, I don't remember the roads we used to get there from Scarborough or to get to US 202) endpoint.  Then I headed up NH 16 to the hotel.

On Sunday, I continued up NH 16 to NH 26, and took that west to US 3 before cutting up NH 145 (not only does Google say that's faster, I was doing everything I could to minimize the deadhead length on US 3).  I took US 3 north to the border, which was an interesting drive in that the areas that were shaded were quite icy.  Turning around at the border, I took US 3 south to US 2, and then took that to VT 18 and headed back on I-93, I-91, VT 103, VT 11, US 7, VT 279, and NY 7.  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.

[froggie]

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.

Part of that slope failure project has required rolling roadblocks of northbound I-91 while "scaling operations" were being done on the rock.  This is why no crossover was built, because there were times when the northbound lanes would be stopped as well and it's easier to effect stoppages for one direction instead of both.

Local media suggests that they should have it wrapped up soon.  The reason it's taken so long is that, after they started in the spring, the contractor and VTrans found other areas of the rockface and ridgetop that they felt had a high likelihood of failure.  This is all the result of an actual rockfall that happened last winter.

[oscar]

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
VA 189 (completes my coverage of TM routes in the Hampton Roads metro area)

After I got back home, I found that my end-to-end clinch of US 12 was undone by a reroute in Willmar MN. One of my many cousins lives in Willmar, so I have an excuse to revisit her and her husband next time I'm in the region (not this year).

[Markkos1992]

On Saturday, my parents and I did another Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ (SCNB) trip this time by stopping at the one in Nashville, NC. 

We took VA 156 SB to I-95 SB into NC and took NC 48 SB to US 158 WB to pick up NC 903 so I could finish it west of Halifax.  From Halifax, we took NC 125/NC 903 south to Scotland Neck (where I got confused and accidentally stayed on NC 903 due to lack of signage before turning around) where I ultimately stayed on NC 125 SB completing my clinch of it when reaching the north end of Williamston.  We then took US 64 ALT to Rocky Mount to complete that clinch though we took NC 33 and Main St through Tarboro since I already had US 64 ALT there.  We took US 64 BUS WB through Rocky Mount (getting gas for $2.58 at a Circle K) and split off from it at Sunset Ave following it and Eastern Ave past the still under construction I-95 interchange all the way to Nashville.  During this portion of the drive, I had to stop at the Joseph A. Bank on Winstead Ave to drop off my tuxedo rental that I had to get for my friend's wedding on Friday in Richmond, VA, of which I was a groomsmen in.  (I actually picked it up on Tuesday in Camp Hill, PA.)

After lunch, it was just US 64 BUS WB into Nashville to NC 58 NB to US 401 NB to US 1 NB back to Petersburg, VA, as we needed to stop at my grandparents' in Colonial Heights since my grandpa turned 87 on that day.

Clinched: NC 125, US 64 ALT (Tarboro, NC)

New Mileage: NC 903, NC 33, NC 58

EDIT (11-27-2024):  Today my mom and I went on a drive through south central VA mainly to clinch VA 92 (sight clinching the closed Roanoke River Bridge and in the process learning that the replacement is under construction) and VA 344 (visiting Staunton River State Park in the process).  We also looped around Burkeville clinching SR 723 (Lunenburg and Nottoway Counties) and SR 724 (Nottoway County) and sneaking in a full via sight clinch of former VA 386 (now SR 883 (Mecklenburg County).  (The route in general was US 460 WB to SR 723 SB to VA 49 SB to US 360 WB to VA 92 and VA 344, and then US 360 EB to VA 92 EB to US 58 EB to I-85 NB back to my parents' house.)

EDIT (12-8-2024):

Yesterday I drove to Fishkill, NY, to pick up some of roadwaywiz's bridge calendars.  I left Harrisburg around 4:30 AM taking I-81 NB to I-78 EB to I-95 NB into NYC via the Upper Level of the George Washington Bridge to immediately exit off onto 178 St so I could get US 9 in the Bronx done with.  The good news is that completing US 9 in the Bronx was fairly easy as I just had to stay north on Broadway, and there were signs from time to time.  Crazily enough, that would not be the case once I entered Westchester County and the city of Yonkers where US 9 and its concurrency with NY 9A have basically no signage at all meaning it was time to pull over and look at Mapview on my phone. 

Anyway I got back on track by taking NY 9A NB to Elmsford where I finally caught up on the 2022 Elmsford Meet by quickly clinching NY 100C.  I ultimately continued north on NY 9A (not being affected obviously by the weeknight Briarcliff-Peekskill Parkway detours) all the way to its northern terminus at US 9 in Peekskill.  I then picked up US 9 NB again crossing Annsville Creek and seeing the construction at Annsville Circle at the temporary signal at the north end of the US 6/US 202 Concurrency.  I then took US 9 NB to NY 403 NB to NY 9D NB (since I did NY 9D south of NY 403 in 2022 I really did not want to take US 6/US 202 to pick up NY 9D by the Bear Mountain Bridge) through Cold Spring and Beacon to its northern terminus at US 9 in Wappinger Falls (where some running event was going on because there were signs to watch for runners, but NY 9D was fully open).  I took US 9 SB to Fishkill to meet roadwaywiz, get the calendars, and then start to head back home.

I took I-84 WB across the Hudson River via the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, and immediately exited onto US 9W SB/NY 32 SB into Newburgh to pick up NY 17K and ultimately NY 207.  Along the way on NY 207, I also clinched NY 747 and NY 416, which both have an airport (New York Stewart Int'l Airport for NY 747 and Orange County Airport for NY 416 (near the northern terminus via NY 211 so I technically was on NY 211 briefly, but not enough to put in my list file) along their routes.  I continued on NY 207 to its western terminus in Goshen, which did not lead to some super crazy experience beyond a route clinch and lunch at a Quikchek, and then took US 6 WB to pick up NY 284 in Slate Hill ultimately clinching NJ/NY 284 and completing all of the NJ routes.  I will not be at 100% for a long while in NJ as long as road construction keeps closing NPS 615 in the Delaware Water Gap.

I then took CR 639 and CR 565 (which should really just be more mileage for NJ 284) to US 206 SB at NJ 15, and took US 206 SB to NJ 94 SB.  I was going to take the Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge into PA and take PA 611 SB to PA 512 SB, but I was defaulted onto I-80 WB due to a closure at the I-80/US 46/NJ 94 interchange so I just took I-80 WB to US 209 SB to PA 33 SB to US 22 WB to I-78 WB to I-81 SB back to Harrisburg.

Clinched: NY 9A, NY 100C, NY 9D, NY 207, NY 747, NY 416, NJ/NY 284

New Mileage: US 9 (NY), NY 100, US 9W (NY), NY 32, NY 17K, NY 208

EDIT (12-15-2024):

So I missed the completed US 209/PA 115 roundabout in Brodheadsville the last couple times I was on PA 33 so time to go see it.  I took I-81 NB to US 209 NB to Brodheadsville to see the new roundabout.  I did get food at the Wawa there, but I had to get gas elsewhere as that Wawa does not have gas pumps.  I continued taking a detour for PA 115 NB via some of PA 715 and a quadrant route to get back to PA 115.  I took PA 115 NB past Pocono Raceway (it was too cold for me to justify trying to get the cop to move for the track entrance selfie) and I-80 to PA 940 EB to start some clinching when I got to PA 423.  From there I looped around the area a bit to clinch PA 423, PA 690, PA 502, and PA 307 (already done from Downtown Scranton to the north).  I did catch a break for PA 690 because even though there was a bridge closure on PA 590 just east of PA 690, I winged a local detour via a parallel township route from PA 348 that took me right to the PA 590/PA 690 intersection.  Once done with PA 307, I took I-380 SB to I-80 WB to I-81 SB (checking PA 424 between PA 309 and Commerce Dr again) and checked out the new PA 72 Bridge and the new traffic patterns around Fort Indiantown Gap before taking PA 443 WB to someone's else to drop off items and head home even though PA 39 was closed in Linglestown for an event so I got to drive some new local roads here as a result of that.

Clinched: PA 423, PA 690, PA 502, PA 307

There was no new mileage added on any other routes.

[TBKS1]

I guess I could post this on here just because, but on Thursday 12/12, I took a drive to some parts of East Arkansas as part of a side project I'm working on. Clinched several short highways (and finished the rest of the 100-mile long AR 33), which was enough to get me to #1 in Arkansas.