New Travels and Stats Discussion

[mapmikey]

Took an 18 hr ride yesterday...

New Clinches in order:
WV 76; WV 16Trk Harrisville; WV 31 (this is a terrible road); OH 266; OH 690; OH 144; WV 140 (unposted); OH 618; WV 95; WV 892; WV 14 ALT (unposted); WV 53; WV 47

New mileage:
WV 16 (WV 31 to US 50); WV 14 (I-77 to Williamstown, WV 14 ALT to WV 140); OH 60 (WV line to OH 266); OH 377 (OH 266 to OH 550); OH 550 (OH 377 to OH 690); OH 329 (US 50 to OH 144); OH 124 (OH 144 to US 50); OH 32 (Belpre); WV 68 (WV 892 to WV 140)

Also picked up 1 new county each in WV and OH

[US 89]

I did a nice loop from Salt Lake yesterday to clinch a bunch of routes in central Utah. Finished up UT 10, 76, 118, and 133 which I had some mileage on before, and also traveled for the first time (and clinched) UT 57, 29, 309, 72, 258, 161, and 64.

Some notes:

- I’m going to have to drive some of these again when I can actually see. Most of the western US is currently blanketed in a layer of thick smoke from California that’s keeping  visibilities down. I don’t think I missed much from something like UT 161, but 72 looked like it would be really pretty on a clear day.
- UT 29 seems to have been affected pretty severely by the recent monsoon storms - there is a bunch of mud and random rocks on the road at various points between Joes Valley Reservoir and 57. Although paved, it doesn’t appear it was ever exactly a super high quality road to begin with
- Elsinore appears to have some sort of civil defense siren system that was going off when I passed through on UT 258. I have never seen this in Utah before and I couldn’t figure out why they might be on (no tornadoes or anything nearby, etc)… unless they test them at 3 PM on Saturdays.
- Fish Lake at the end of UT 25 is evidently a very popular camping and recreation destination and has a surprising amount of traffic, most of which is old pickup trucks being driven very slowly

[Bruce]

I've done three big clinch trips so far this summer (with one or two more hopefully in the works), so I thought I should mark them down.



Early June: Test run out to Yakima (orange)

A single day with 600 miles of almost non-stop driving to and from Yakima, mostly to test my limits (as this was my first long, long solo drive).

Fully clinched: SR 162, SR 410, SR 123, SR 823, SR 122, SR 507, SR 702, SR 704, SR 161
Partially clinched: SR 165, SR 7
Good progress: US 12

Late June: Olympic Peninsula and SW Coast (purple)

Just before the heat dome decided to park itself over the region and break records, I spent some time on the coast to re-trace some sections that I was unsure that I clinched as a kid, while adding new miles.

This was my first multi-day trip, so I divided it into manageable chunks (and still overextended myself a bit).

Day 1: From the metro area to Port Angeles via the west side of the Olympic Loop

Fully clinched: SR 163 (minus the ferry), SR 302, SR 300, SR 108, SR 8, SR 107, SR 109, SR 110, SR 110 Spur, SR 113
Partially clinched: SR 3, US 101
Good progress: US 12
Small bit: SR 105, SR 112

Day 2: From Port Angeles to Olympia via Port Townsend and the Hood Canal route

Fully clinched: SR 19, SR 116, SR 104, SR 307, SR 308, SR 119, SR 102
Partially clinched: US 101, SR 3
Good progress: SR 20, US 12
Small bit: SR 106

Day 3: From Olympia to Astoria and back home, including picking up a new county (Wahkiakum) and crossing a state line in my own car for the very first time.

Fully clinched: SR 411, SR 432, SR 433, SR 4, SR 409, SR 100, SR 401
Partially clinched: SR 505, SR 506, SR 103, OR 202, US 101 Bus (Astoria)
Good progress: US 101
Small bit: SR 6

Got home at 2 am after a long, long drive through the dark from Aberdeen, but it was well worth it.

July: Vancouver and the Oregon Coast (green)

Another long, multi-day trip, though this time in a fuel-efficient rental car thanks to my regular car being damaged by an accident.

Day 1: Cowlitz and Vancouver

Fully clinched: SR 121, SR  506, SR 500, SR 501, I-205 (WA), OR 8
Partially clinched:
Good progress: SR 14
Small bit: SR 503

Day 2: Portland and Salem

Fully clinched: I-405, I-205 (OR), OR 217, OR 99E Business (former I-305), OR 226
Partially clinched:
Good progress: I-5, OR 8, OR 22, US 20, OR 99W
Small bit: I-84/US 30, OR 213, OR 99

Day 3: From Eugene to the Coast to Olympia

Fully clinched: OR 569, I-105, OR 528, OR 225, OR 132, US 20 Bus (Toledo), OR 182, OR 6, OR 223, OR 164
Partially clinched: OR 222, OR 228
Good progress: I-5, OR 126, US 20, US 101, US 26, OR 99W
Small bit: OR 58

Day 4: Backtracking to Vancouver and heading into the mountains

Since I couldn't find a Portland-area hotel for the night, I had to sleep in Olympia and backtrack 2 hours south to Vancouver to finish up my clinching. I still managed to miss two sections that I will have to grab on a later trip.

Fully clinched: SR 502, SR 503 Spur, SR 508, SR 7
Partially clinched: SR 503

[Bickendan]

Took a weekend trip out to Tillamook/Oceanside, and did a reclinch of 101 from Tillamook to Warrenton.
Tillamook to Nehalem was a slog, and north end of Cannon Beach through Seaside was jammed x.x

Caught the portion of ORH 105 I missed last time, and to my surprise, the bridge inventory tag over the Skipanon River said RTE: 105.

[froggie]

On Day 1 of a 2.5 week trip out to Minnesota and back for some family business.  Netted a goodly bit of New York mileage today along NY 8 through the southern 'Dacks, around Utica and Syracuse, and everything from Geneva to Olean (where I'm staying tonight).

This particular trip marks a bit of a departure for me, where I've deliberately planned every route and turn.  In the past, I've generally just "gone with the flow".

[froggie]

Day 2 in the books now, from Olean, NY to Huntington, IN with an unplanned side trip to the VA Hospital in Erie, PA.  Had a minor issue that (we hope) is temporarily resolved.  A side benefit of the Erie detour is I clinched more mileage in NW PA than I had originally planned.

Amongst other segments, today clinched PA/NY 474, OH 261, and all of US 224 west of Akron.

[osu-lsu]

It was an amazing drive down Troy Rd (from Coover Rd to Pennsylvania Ave) last night to see the Buckeye Valley OSU-LSUs upset the Delaware Hayes Mapcats, 26-22 in football.
Unfortunately, none of drives could count towards mileage on TM 

[computerfan0]

Went up to Fermanagh, clinching the A34 and the last remaining bit of the R183 and getting new travels on the A4. Not really interesting in terms of new travels.

[Markkos1992]

I took a pre-Henri trip to the Jersey Shore yesterday as a result of both spans of the new Scudder Falls Bridge on I-295 being open as of earlier last week.  I also clinched I-195 in NJ which gives me all of the interstate mileage in New Jersey (unless you still count NJ 495 as one for some reason), and I finally finished PA 309 along with adding some PA 611 mileage.  (I did photograph the erroneous US 33/US 611 shields from the shopping center coming into the PA 33/PA 611 intersection.)

Clinched:  PA 309, PA 263, PA/NJ 179, NJ 12, NJ 29 (and mostly unsigned NJ 165), NJ 175, NJ 129, I-195(NJ), NJ 138, NJ 33, NJ 33 BUS (Freehold), NJ 31, NJ 163 (unsigned)
New Mileage: PA 611, PA 313, US 202(NJ), PA 332, PA 32, NJ 35, NJ 71, NJ 34, US 130(NJ)

[Jim]

Much more to come later, but the Ring Road, Iceland's TH1, will go to 100% for me with tonight's update.  It looks like I'll be the only one with a current clinch. Some others maybe had it and lost the 100% when new alignments/tunnels, etc., opened?

By far my longest clinch outside the US, and longest that's not an Interstate.

[SSOWorld]

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.

[oscar]

I'm in the middle of what's probably my last major road trip this summer, not counting a possible fall trip to Canada. The first part was focused on visiting relatives in Minnesota and South Dakota, especially those missed on my previous trips there earlier this year. But I did a little bit of route clinching. I've now clinched all of the usaib (business Interstates) route set. I also clinched the long Minnesota state route 7, and some shorter state routes.

I'm in Nebraska for now, on the return home. The rest of my trip will take a southern route, more focused on route clinching (which ones TBD).

[Jim]

A few TM-related highlights from the 9-day trip to Iceland.

From 0 to 1126 miles in ISL (TM rank 4).
Traveled 36 islth routes (TM rank 3), clinched 20 (TM rank 2), including the Ring Road (only TM user with a current clinch).

Overall, this trip sent me well past 96,000 active+clinched mileage.

I'll say a lot more about the trip in general and my observations of driving in Iceland over on AARoads some time soon.

In short, go if you ever have the chance.  The country is amazing.

[Markkos1992]

My dad was stationed in Iceland for a time when he was a Marine back in the 1970s.  I do not know how much of the country he got to explore though.

[Jim]

Observations from Iceland in my AARoads post.