New Travels and Stats Discussion

[oscar]

I drove out to the Sacramento area from my home in northern Virginia, for the road meet there this Saturday. I did a lot of detours on my 12-day outbound journey. The return trip, starting on Sunday, will be much less interesting, with the aim of getting home for Easter with family.

My clinches so far:

I-73 and I-74 extensions in the Rockingham NC area (reclinches usai for me, except a few missing miles in Alaska)
SC 177
AL 158
MS 611
LA 45, and its more modern counterpart LA 3134
LA 3040
LA 657
the long LA 1, including a dive down to the Gulf coast in Grand Isle
LA 3235 (modern bypass of part of LA 1)
all of US 59 in Texas (still working on the rest of the route, while TxDOT works on US 59/future I-69 bypasses to undo my clinch in Texas)
TX Loop 463, and US 59 Business, in Victoria
TX 89
US 181
TX 255
NM 464 (only user to have traveled that lonely route)
NM 92 (just me and mapcat)
AZ 266
AZ 92
AZ 90
AZ 82
AZ 83
AZ 24
CA 190 (Death Valley) (reclinch for changes in the Olancha area, which brings me back to 100% of usaca)
US 395 Business (Olancha)
long Barstow CA segment of US 66 Historic

Ahead of and during this Saturday's road meet, I'll try to clinch Sacramento's light rail transit system, which didn't exist when I lived there in the summer of 1979. I expect to snag some additional northern California historic route mileage.

[osu-lsu]

All of LA 1 in one fell swoop, Oscar?!
You're a brave man, Gunga Din. 
(I still remember taking most of one day just to drive from the LSU campus to Grand Isle and back, 20 years ago)

[cl94]

On the rail side, I knocked out the rest of the Sacramento RT Light Rail this afternoon/evening in advance of the Sacramento road meet. The Green Line only runs on weekdays, meaning I needed a weekday trip to finish the system. I think that's my 4th light rail system completed.

[oscar]

On the rail side, I knocked out the rest of the Sacramento RT Light Rail this afternoon/evening in advance of the Sacramento road meet. The Green Line only runs on weekdays, meaning I needed a weekday trip to finish the system. I think that's my 4th light rail system completed.

I clinched the entire system in a few hours today. The longest route in the system, the Gold Line out to Folsom, took me two hours round trip by itself.

All of LA 1 in one fell swoop, Oscar?!
You're a brave man, Gunga Din. 
(I still remember taking most of one day just to drive from the LSU campus to Grand Isle and back, 20 years ago)

I'd previously covered all of LA 1 north of Shreveport, and had bits and pieces to the south, but was missing most of the route south of Baton Rouge.

[mapcat]

Just got back from an overnight trip that added 0.5 mi to my total, but that included 2 clinches: reclinching NY 12E at a new bridge, and reclinching ON 15, and reclinching canon, with the newly-discovered segment south of the 401.

[Markkos1992]

Last weekend I took another NC trip, and while I did go to Smithfield's Chicken-N-BBQ (SCNB), I ended up doing this one on my own to escape the dreary weather in the northeast.  I had a rental again because my car was in the shop due to my driver's side door being repaired after it was hit by a cop a few weeks ago around 3 AM.

I started Friday afternoon by taking I-81 SB to I-581/US 220 SB in Roanoke and stayed at a hotel along VA 419 just west of US 220.  I ended up getting dinner from a chain restaurant in the area called Macado's, a place I ate at occasionally in Blacksburg during my college days at Virginia Tech.

On Saturday morning I immediately took US 220 SB into NC staying on it until it splits from I-73.  I got off of I-73 onto NC 68 (turning around at Triad Center Drive just north of I-40/US 421) and finished my clinch of NC 68 once I got back to the northern terminus of I-73.  I turned around and went back to NC 68 to get a little more NC 65 before taking I-73 SB all the way to Rockingham (and finally seeing US 70 signage in reference to Wendover Avenue, better late than ever I guess for NCDOT).  Once on the Rockingham bypass, I continued past the end of I-73/I-74 onto I-74/US 74 and then clinched US 74 BUS (Rockingham, NC) and got lunch at SCNB along the way.  I then continued west on US 74 and turned around at NC 145 to take US 1 NB to the south end of US 220, and followed US 220 (also taking NC 73 east to I-73/I-74 before turning around), US 220 ALT, and US 220 BUS to the north end of US 220 BUS at I-73 (Exit 86)/US 220 (even finding the Richard Petty Museum because why not). I turned around again at I-73 Exit 79 once I-74 joined, and then took I-74 west to I-40 in Winston-Salem where I stayed for the night by I-40 Exit 188.  As a result of this trip, I now have I-73 and US 220 fully clinched.

On Sunday I tried to get home as quickly as possible due to concerns with severe weather, but I did take US 421 SB into Winston-Salem and took NC/VA 8 north to I-81 in Christiansburg (clinching also NC 89 from US 311 to NC 8 NB plus VA 8 BUS, US 58 BUS, and SR 1025 in Stuart along the way with a sighting of the Wood Brothers Racing Museum as well).  I generally followed I-81 back to Harrisburg from there only dealing with drizzle after the heavy rain south of Stuart in the morning.  I also checked both ends of WV 243 on this trip again seeing no new signage yet again.

Clinched: US 220 (NC-full clinch), I-73, NC 68, US 74 BUS (Rockingham, NC), US 220 ALT (Candor, NC), US 220 BUS (Asheboro, NC), VA 8, US 58 BUS (Stuart, VA), VA 8 BUS (Stuart)
New Mileage: NC 65, I-74 (NC), US 74 (NC), US 1 (NC), NC 73, NC 731, NC 134, NC 8, NC 89, NC 704 (super short NC 8 concurrency)