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Carolina Roadtrip Day 2 (Summerville, SC to Wilmington, NC)

Day 2 involves a ride east to Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, North Carolina to check out the fairly new South Carolina 22 (Veterans Highway) and 31 (Carolina Bays Parkway) freeways, Myrtle Beach itself, and the new Interstate 140 in Wilmington among other things. In Summerville, the interchange between U.S. 17 Alternate and Interstate 26 exists within a commercial district based upon big box retail. As such, the interchange garners a [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:12-05:00December 10th, 2006|North Carolina, South Carolina|Comments Off on Carolina Roadtrip Day 2 (Summerville, SC to Wilmington, NC)
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Carolina Roadtrip Day 1 (Gainesville, FL to Summerville, SC)

The journey northward took place on a warm November day interspersed with blue and milky skies. We opted for a non-Interstate routing from High Springs northward through Lake City, Homerville, Jessup, and Hinesville, Georgia. That allowed us to see some new roadways, garner a few more counties (we do that obsessive thing too!), and check out a few U.S. highway ends for Dale Sanderson's U.S. Highway Ends I won't bore [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:13-05:00December 7th, 2006|Florida, Georgia, South Carolina|Comments Off on Carolina Roadtrip Day 1 (Gainesville, FL to Summerville, SC)
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Tyler, Texas tidbits

Tyler is a regional center in east Texas, with an area population of about 100,000. The city reminds me a lot of other cities - Tallahassee with its horrible loop, Wheeling with its little unexpected skyline, Kansas City with its unexpected hills. Here is a quick look at the goings-on in Tyler, Texas. Future SH 49 Toll corridor sign An incarnation of this sign has been sitting [...]

By |2018-01-13T15:16:11-05:00December 2nd, 2006|Texas|9 Comments
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Freeway on Heroes

For movie buffs, you may be surprised to know that Los Angeles' Terminal Island Freeway is used quite often for freeway or highway related scenes set in locations nowhere near Southern California. The reasons being is because of its general location from movie studios, so its easy to get to; relatively light traffic, so its easy to close for filming; and an urban/industrial landscape, so it can simulate many different [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:13-05:00November 29th, 2006|California|1 Comment
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Mobile-Pensacola Updates

Thanksgiving took me to Pensacola and Mobile for the holiday weekend, and I have a few road notes to share from the way up and travels in the area. Legitimate Interstate 10 Florida shields found in Freeport at the overlap of U.S. 331 and Florida 20. In all of our years of travel in and around Interstate 10 in Florida, we've never discovered any signs with the [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:13-05:00November 27th, 2006|Alabama, Florida|Comments Off on Mobile-Pensacola Updates
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New U.S. 301 Toll Road in Delaware

After on and off debate for well over 35 years, Delaware officials have finally chosen a path for U.S. 301 that most people can live with. South of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in the bustling community of Middletown, whose city limits have expanded dramatically in recent years to accommodate the pervasive sprawl of the Wilmington metro area, is the only two-lane bottleneck of U.S. 301 between the Washington metropolitan [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:13-05:00November 20th, 2006|Delaware|1 Comment
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Carolina Roadtrip Day 4 (Summerville, SC to Ocala, FL)

I'm starting this roadtrip summary on day 4, as I have yet to retrieve the photos for Days 1 through 3 from Justin's laptop. Rather then wait on that, I will just start from the back ala the Washington Trip reports, and focus on the drive from South Carolina back to Florida. The trip overall involved traveling north to visit my brother in South Carolina, and spending daytrips to see Myrtle [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:14-05:00November 19th, 2006|Florida, Georgia, South Carolina|Comments Off on Carolina Roadtrip Day 4 (Summerville, SC to Ocala, FL)
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Pacific Northwest Roadtrip – Day 7 (Kooskia, Idaho to Seattle)

The second day of our marathon drive continued us northeast into the Treasure State of Montana, my first visit there, and then back west via Interstate 90 to Seattle. A bout of allergies made life difficult through Boise, but the sleep I got in Kooskia all but removed the effects of that! We resumed our journey along Idaho 13 north to U.S. 12 east for the eastward trek into Montana. [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:14-05:00November 16th, 2006|Idaho, Montana, U. S. Highways, Washington|Comments Off on Pacific Northwest Roadtrip – Day 7 (Kooskia, Idaho to Seattle)
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Pacific Northwest Roadtrip – Day 6 (Seattle to Kooskia, Idaho)

This past weekend's roadtrip took us to Jacksonville, Florida, Savannah, Georgia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North Carolina. But before I get into the details of those travels, it is time to take care of unfinished business... Now two and half months removed from the trip, here's a summary of Day 6 of our Northwest U.S. roadtrip. Chris Kalina joined Andy and I for the two-day marathon [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:15-05:00November 15th, 2006|Idaho, Oregon, U. S. Highways, Washington|2 Comments
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Toll Roads of Orlando

In between other things this weekend, we traveled portions of the Orlando Toll Road system and other area surface roads. We drove all of the Western Beltway northbound, portions of Florida 408 Toll in both directions, the Florida's Turnpike mainline south from U.S. 27 to the East-West Expressway, all of Florida 417 Toll southbound, and various parts of the Orange Blossom Trail, Colonial Drive, U.S. 17 & 92, Maitland Boulevard, etc. Some [...]

By |2018-01-18T15:22:15-05:00November 5th, 2006|Florida|1 Comment
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