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Started by WISFreeways, September 29, 2009, 08:43:51 PM

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TravelingBethelite

Sure, I'll help with this thread revival...

Hi, I'm I-384! I provide a major link here in the Northeast...at least I think I do. Stupid NIMBYs and the city of Providence stunted my growth. I have a sister in New York and two stunted brothers in downtown Hartford. Part of me was amputated in Willimantic and I never got it back!  :no:  :spin:  :-/
"Imprisoned by the freedom of the road!" - Ronnie Milsap
See my photos at: http://bit.ly/1Qi81ws

Now I decide where I go...

2018 Ford Fusion SE - proud new owner!


formulanone

#51
Hi! I'm I-375 in Saint Petersburg. Well, see you later.

Hi! I'm I-175 in Saint Pete. Well, see you later.

Hi! I'm I-375 in Detroit...well, gotta go.

Hello, my name is I-595 in Annapolis. Top-secret and important bridge stuff, so I can't talk. US 50 will answer any questions on my behalf.

Max Rockatansky

Hello, I'm I-60 and part of my route goes through a nuclear test site in the Nevada Test Site.  I've come from the future to warn you...stop FritzOwl now before he builds his army of Interstate Shield wearing shock troopers.  Countless US Routes met their end in the great war and the highways are in ruins.

hotdogPi

Hello, I-2 here. For some reason, I seem to be disconnected from the other Interstates. I'm also really close to Mexico, which has its own route numbered 2 close to the border. No, I do not support a border wall. When will I ever reach Laredo?






Hello, I-366 here. I used to be VA 28, which seems to be a common number for a state route freeway, as Pennsylvania and Massachusetts also have routes numbered 28 with freeway portions. Now I'm 366. I provide access to the Dulles airport, just like VA 267.




My name is I-278. You separated me from my father. Prepare to die.




Hello. I'm 89. No, I am not 89 years old. I start in Concord, New Hampshire, go through Burlington, Vermont, and end at the Canadian border where Canada forgot to continue the freeway. They remembered to continue with I-91, but not me. Other than Concord and Burlington, I go through no major cities. Someone, please increase the speed limit to 70 or even 75.
Clinched, minus I-93 (I'm missing a few miles and my file is incorrect)

Traveled, plus US 13, 44, and 50, and several state routes

I will be in Burlington VT for the eclipse.

Max Rockatansky

-  Hello I'm I-19.  Everyone hates me because I'm a short route and wants me to go away so I-11 can move in.  I think it has something to do with the fact that I use the metric system...total roadism here in Arizona...  :eyebrow:

- I-17 here.  People complain that I don't have uphill truck lanes, but I complain about you racing back to Phoenix from Sedona every Sunday night in droves.  Don't you people have anything better to do like bother AZ 87 or AZ 260?

-  Hi, I'm Interstate 4.  I used to have a much better western end point but everyone likes I-275 better than me to St. Petersburg.  I'm kind of like your uncle that keeps his ratted out Firebird with the Screaming Chicken in his front yard who drinks too much...because I'm a train wreck in Orlando.  I'm seeking out help for my problems but it will be years before I'm sober enough to be good for anybody.

-  I-27 checking in.  How many of you actually knew I existed?  Sometimes I feel like I'm completely forgotten and it's lonely out her Lubbock.

roadman

Hi- I'm I-695 from "Bawstn".  People still call me "The Inner Belt", although the correct term these days should be "The Missing Belt".  You see, despite having a bunch of land cleared for me - some of which was eventually used for an oversized local street that people now want to downsize, I was never built - save for a short double deck section that was subsequently stolen by my distant cousin I-93, as well as a pair of stub ramps over rapid transit and train tracks.  One of these ramps was never used, and the other ramp is now part of an exit to the local road network by a large sports arena.  Never had any signs identifying me put up on the section that was actually constructed, although they did provide lots of signs with my parent's crest (I-95) on them around me - most of these signs remain, but the crest has since been removed from them.
"And ninety-five is the route you were on.  It was not the speed limit sign."  - Jim Croce (from Speedball Tucker)

"My life has been a tapestry
Of years of roads and highway signs" (with apologies to Carole King and Tom Rush)

LM117

Hi! I'm I-73 and I would really like to expand my horizons and see what lies beyond NC while making friends and bringing people together, but for some reason, everybody thinks I'm an asshole and won't give me the time of day. I didn't ask to be born! I just wanna be loved, dammit! Is it t-t-t-too much to ask?! :-(

“I don’t know whether to wind my ass or scratch my watch!” - Jim Cornette

Max Rockatansky

Interstate 69 here.  Yes I'm the one with the name that sounds like a 1970s porno movie.  I'd change my name to I-45 with all the CANMEX extensions....nah....who would give up being called I-69?  I've been the go to Interstate for inflated ebay signage prices since the site opened up in the late 1990s.  I'm worshiped in the man caves of many a Viagara huffing repressed male individual named Harold going through a mid-life crisis trying ever so desperately to recapture his youth.  US 69 and may not be blood but his my brotha from anotha motha.   :cool:

slorydn1

Hi everybody, I'm I-42.

Officially, I haven't been born yet. Heck, I wasn't even a twinkle in NCDOT's eye when this thread was started!!

But, when I am born I will be the link that gets people from the Capitol to the Crystal Coast. I cullda been a 3di, but that would have pissed off I-476 in PA. I keep telling everyone it's not the size of the Interstate that matters, it's how well you use it!

SO now I'll be my very own 2di, and when I grow up maybe they'll let me hook up with US-70 and we can have some children of our own.


Oh, and stop picking on my brother I-87-he's not even born yet and already is having identity issues-it's not his fault they want to name an east-west Interstate after a north-south one waaaay up there in New Yawk-fuhgedaboutit......
Please Note: All posts represent my personal opinions and do not represent those of any governmental agency, non-governmental agency, quasi-governmental agency or wanna be governmental agency

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Henry

Allow me to introduce myself: I-55, the highway with the blues. The reason for that is because I always seem to visit cities associated with that type of music (Chicago, St. Louis and Memphis), and there's even an NHL team near me named the Blues. I wish I could go to New Orleans, but I stop a little short of there to the west. I hear they have some great jazz down there. What do you mean, I can't piggyback on I-10 just to go there?

Hi, I'm I-83, the Baltimore-Harrisburg Interstate. I could've gone to Annapolis as well, but they gave that part to the bastard I-97 that I hate so much. Why wasn't it named I-995? Anyway, I have lots of potential to extend both ways. I wonder how the Rochester and Greensboro efforts are coming along? Especially Rochester, because I want to beat that criminal I-99 to it!

Hey guys, this is I-77, the Interstate that almost didn't exist. Guess the rumors are true, that I love cities that start with the letter C. There's Cleveland, Canton, Cambridge, Charleston (not the SC city, I don't even come close!), Charlotte and Columbia (thank God they extended me to SC in the 70s and 80s because just ending in Charlotte wasn't good enough for me). And I'm so happy for LeBron James and the Cavaliers for winning the NBA championship that I'd be honored to have the part that goes from Cleveland to Akron maned after him.

Hello, we're I-30 and I-45, twin highways that suffer from stunted growth. We were born in Dallas/Fort Worth, and branch eastward to Little Rock and southward to Houston and Galveston. Other highways that end in 0 and 5 stretch from one end of the country to the other, or most of them do anyway, so why can't we? Extensions would do both of us a lot of good.
Go Cubs Go! Go Cubs Go! Hey Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today!

hm insulators

#60
Quote from: hbelkins on November 27, 2009, 11:36:24 PM
Hey folks, I'm I-265. What's that? You say you can see right through me, as if my middle isn't even there? Well you might be right. My top half doesn't connect to my bottom half. Now if those idiots in Kentucky and Indiana would get their sh*t together and connect my ends and build that f-ing bridge already, I could be whole.

Hey folks, I'm I-265's twin brother I-710. What's that? You say you can see right through me, as if my middle isn't even there? Well you might be right. My top half doesn't connect to my bottom half. Now if those idiots in South Pasadena would get their sh*t together and connect my ends and build that f-ing tunnel already, I could be whole.
Remember: If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

I'd rather be a child of the road than a son of a ditch.


At what age do you tell a highway that it's been adopted?

sparker

#61
Hey guys, I'm I-210.  Yeah, the California one, not that poser in Louisiana!  I used to be fat, happy, and complete, until some yahoos decided I needed an extension out through Fontucky and San Berdoo.  Guess they thought with my number the whole thing'd be 7 times better than with the previous number they wanted to use.  But I got my sorry ass caught in bureaucratic hell -- they took my rear end away from me, although someone says I still own it -- but now it has big green "57" numbers slapped all over it like it was a bottle of Heinz sauce.  I was supposed to just walk my butt out to Redlands like I owned the road, but somehow those same mofos that talked me into getting that extension in the first place have hung me out to dry.  Now there's more goddam big-ass green signs, with MY number, on the road that should've been ME!  My uncle I-15 and cousin I-215 laugh like hyenas every time they cross what should have been my path.  I can't really blame 'em, not with my d--k hanging out in San Dimas with nowhere to go!  Shit, am I pathetic or what?  If I ever get hold of one of those morons who got me into this mess, I'm going to take one of those green 210 shields and shove it, point-first, right up their..........(transmission mercifully cut off here).       

noelbotevera

Hi, I'm I-283. The only one in existence. I'm not even a loop! I'm so short, that my father forgets about me and all I have is this rich guy called I-76...he never talks to me, cause I'm too short and my life was not worth the number. Kill me, please!

Ayy, wussaup dawg, I'm THE real I-76 heuh! Nawt dem posuhs out west. I'm da guy who deals in evurythang, scams, 'igh pricin, huge tolls, and I'm fillllthy riech. I'm da guy who got connnectuns to evurythang, and I don't care 'bout dem losers who say that dey a bettuh root dan me! Naw, I'm the real OG, not that I-80 n I-68 guyz. Dey losuhs.

ethanhopkin14

#63
I am Interstate 635 - I am all kinds of jacked up.  My mileposts increase counterclockwise unlike my other Texas cousins, and my northern terminus is a state highway (and yes, I have a terminus).  I live in a city where my father has a second personality, and I don't know this other personality, which scares me.  Back in the late 70s, my friend I-20 asked me if he could borrow my legs, and I said yes.  Then in the 80s he chopped them off, and now he walks around on those old legs of mine. How rude!!!  Because of this, I only see my father once.  I have very high blood pressure and no one knows how to fix it :(.   I am in the loop family but I act like a spur.... was I adopted?

ethanhopkin14

Interstate 180 here - Yep, that one.  Definitely the black sheep of the family.  No one, and I mean no one, likes to talk to me, or about me, even my dad.  I am extremely deformed, so much that none of me looks like the other kids.  My father was traveling through Cheyenne one day and had a "fun night" and I was illegitimately born.  My legs were broke, my face looks like a brick building, and I look more like our very distance ancestors, the US Highways!  Doctor says I will never grow out of it though.

jbnati27

Hi, I'm I-77! I-326, get in my belly!!  :bigass:

capt.ron

#66
Hi, I'm I-240. The Okie from.... Oklahoma City (well, that went over like a lead balloon!). Well, I'm here to confuse the hell out of all of you. Why you ask? Because I somehow inherited mile markers from my parent, I-40 just to my north. My west end was cut off for no reason at all, other than to make travelers lives, dare I say, more challenging. I used to connect to my parent in two places, but the powers at be thought that one connection to my parent was sufficient.
I just don't fit in anymore. I connect to my cousin, I-44 but my relationship with him is totally dysfunctional and awkward.
I feel like a spur now instead of a bypass.
Perhaps I need a name change? I have become irrelevant in today's times.
I have two brothers. My eldest lives in Tennessee. My youngest lives in North Carolina. Me and my youngest are jealous of our big brother. Especially me because I'm the middle child and have only one connection to my parent.
My parent has all new concrete and I'm withering away.
Speaking about my parent, I-40, he has something to say as well. He has had a troubled past.

I-40: "Shut up and let me talk!"
Hi, I'm I-40. I got my start by borrowing from my uncle that has passed away: US 66.
He gave me a LOT! From west of El Reno, Oklahoma to Barstow, California, I got his inheritance from early on. He watched me grow as a new whippersnapper in the late 1950's but he kept me in check as I grew older. By the mid 1970's, he began to advance on in age as I took over his duties of moving people and freight little by little. By 1985 my uncle US 66 passed away.
I gave birth to my 3 I-240 sons with my first one in Memphis, Tennessee. I gave birth to a second son in Oklahoma City in the mid 1970's. I got lucky again with a 240 son in North Carolina.
I ran into trouble in Memphis. I was thinking about cutting through Overton Park but the residents wouldn't have any of that. I was told to move north so I did. I like it fine where I'm at. I'm getting a makeover east of Memphis. I'm sure you all will like it!
I have other offspring as well. I have two 440 sons. One lives in Little Rock. He's kind of diabolical though. He has a strange twin called AR 440 just north of me.... but I don't talk about him much.
I have a daughter  I-540 in Fort Smith. She serves Fort Smith quite well. She recently got a makeover. Boy she looks good!
I have another son I-440 in Nashville. He's got stunted growth and is quite constricted. My fault. I gave him coffee when he was an infant. I'm so mean...
I have a bastard also in Tennessee. He goes by TN 840.
I have also another daughter in Tennessee. Her name is I-140. She's kinda short though but is rather feisty. Don't cross her!
Another son in Tennessee is I-640. He's kinda loopy though and I don't understand him much.
On my east end, I have other sister 540 in North Carolina. She is confused though. She thinks she is a bypass and has an estranged sister going by NC 540.
Another sibling 440 also lives in Raleigh. He thinks he's a bypass but really isn't much of one. Kind of an ego problem.
As for me, I'm getting long in the tooth as well. I give motorists fits in Arkansas from Little Rock to Memphis. I need to put on a bit of weight there since I'm so skinny.
Oh yes, I have another I-140 in Wilmington but she's a mess right now. She has a lot of growing up to do.
Annnd, I have a weird relationship with I-15 in Barstow. You see, there is no direct connection from me to I-15 north. Traffic must exit off of me right where I end, drive on a section courtesy of my dead uncle, US 66,  in which the cousin of I-15 took over. I-15 business, which took over my uncle in Barstow.
I have had a long life and I need fixing up all over. Parts of me have been fixed but other parts are in dire need of reconstructive surgery. That's the price you pay for taking over for your uncle.
I get a lot of flack for killing many a small town out west but hey, you got to take the bad with the good nowadays.
Well, that's all I have to say.

sparker

#67
Hey, all you good folks, it's I-680 up here in NorCal.  Not doing too badly, considering that all my neighbors dump all their traffic onto me!  Take my work buddy CA 24 -- ever since they denied him that promotion that would have taken him out to Pittsburg, just about every bit of work he does winds up on one of my on-ramps!  Sure, I can pass some of it on to that new kid, CA 242 (he's actually related to CA 24, but you wouldn't know it from looking at him!), but I still have to do a lot of grunt work before I can wave it goodbye.  And my sister, I-580, who works for the same company, ends up dumping all her San Jose traffic on me, even though it has to backtrack and take this little piss-ant loop ramp to get to me!  But that's all right, I'm tough enough to take all the crap that gets loaded onto me!  After all, I'm 71 miles long, bigger than most of my 3di brethren.  Being that long (and lean, if I don't mind saying so myself!) I've gotta expect to attract a lot more trouble than most of my family and friends.

And my landlords DID give me a nice, big new bridge just recently.  And they had the good sense to relocate the toll booth before the new bridge instead of where it was with the old one -- right smack at the north end!  Now I don't have traffic backing up onto my new toy!  But I still have issues with my ends -- both of them!  Down in San Jose, I really don't end (although every boss I've had thinks that I do!); I just pass about 70% of my traffic onto my brother, I-280.  Both of us used to have "END" signs at US 101, where all this happens, but they seem to disappear as soon as the landlord puts them up.  Frankly, once the burden's off me, I don't give a rat's ass where it goes!  Now let's get to the north end.  My little sister, I-780, got my old room in Vallejo; that was rather sparsely furnished, with a really dinky cloverleaf connecting to my dad's (I-80's) "man-cave", but my new room, which I got when they kicked that pesky CA 21 tenant out back in '74, is even worse.  It's really skinny, only 4 lanes total, and connects to my dad's room by this crappy old trumpet.  They're supposed to fix this problem, but they're not changing much except for adding a lane here and there -- all my dad's money went into a new set of truck scales east of that damn trumpet.  He does like his toys -- he partied for a year or two after he got that new "Zampa" bridge over the Carquinez (why they called it that is beyond me; if it were "Zappa", I could understand it, but whatever....it isn't my business!).  We'll just have to see what that trumpet looks like when -- and if -- the dust settles.  Oh, here's my dad now; he's got a question:

I-80 here.  Tell me, where do I end?  The state says I go all the way to US 101, but the Feds think I end where the Bay Bridge touches down in S.F.  I got signs saying I'm on the Skyway, but nobody gives me any money to touch up that thing, and it's a hell of lot older than I am, must be pushing 70!  And don't get me started on my son, 280 -- I never get to see him anymore.  Every time someone in the city gets a bug up their ass, they tear off a piece of him.  And they won't even put up decent overhead trailblazer signs on 101 saying to use it to get from him to me and vice-versa!  It's like they're ashamed of us or something!  I feel like the Marxist peasant in "Holy Grail":  "Help, Help, I'm being repressed!"  I'm just a poor parent who wants to have at least some contact with his kid, even it's just through signs!  Will someone help me......please?   

CtrlAltDel

Hello, I'm 290 in Illinois. Why don't you stop on by for a while?
Interstates clinched: 4, 57, 275 (IN-KY-OH), 465 (IN), 640 (TN), 985
State Interstates clinched: I-26 (TN), I-75 (GA), I-75 (KY), I-75 (TN), I-81 (WV), I-95 (NH)

epzik8

My name is Interstate 97, or I-97 for short. And I am short. I'm less than 18 miles long and am situated entirely within one county! People think I'm weird for that, but I'm an important Interstate. I connect Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, to Annapolis, the state capital. I go right past the BWI Airport too. And I'm a vital part of the route from Baltimore to Southern Maryland and Richmond, Virginia! Some people think I'm too short for a mainline interstate, but the State Highway Administration seems content to keep me this way for now. I am I-97. I am the Baltimore-Annapolis corridor.
From the land of red, white, yellow and black.
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My clinched highways: http://tm.teresco.org/user/?u=epzik8
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ethanhopkin14

Quote from: epzik8 on August 10, 2016, 02:31:59 AM
My name is Interstate 97, or I-97 for short. And I am short. I'm less than 18 miles long and am situated entirely within one county! People think I'm weird for that, but I'm an important Interstate. I connect Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, to Annapolis, the state capital. I go right past the BWI Airport too. And I'm a vital part of the route from Baltimore to Southern Maryland and Richmond, Virginia! Some people think I'm too short for a mainline interstate, but the State Highway Administration seems content to keep me this way for now. I am I-97. I am the Baltimore-Annapolis corridor.

Hey I-97.  Don't you think it's funny that you are the shortest mainline interstate terminating in the south at that longest unsigned interstate? Or is it ironic?  Or maybe just coincidence?  Or maybe its just kinda cool?

Sorry every one, he's part of my family, the Sevens.  I can give him a hard time.  My name is Interstate 37.  I live in South Texas and I am 143 miles long.  I start in the south in Corpus Christi the only joint terminus of a Interstate Highway, a US Highway and a State Highway in the country.  I leave the beach and go north to San Antonio and terminate into my cousin, Interstate 35.  For some reason, I continue as a freeway, but that jerk US 281 takes over my pavement.  I would like to continue north as an alternative to Austin (heck maybe a back road to Dallas/Ft. Worth).  I may be short, but I am pretty important.  I am a hurricane evacuation route, and I take that seriously. I go through some rough terrain, but not hilly, just tough if you don't have any water with you.  All my life I have been the connection from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, and indirectly to The Valley, but this new guy is coming in, maybe you know him.  I-69.  Yeah, but he goes by the name I-69E (or I-69W, I think he has a identity crisis down here).  Anyway, he will help me connect to all those people down in The Valley.  Isn't that sweet.

I have a brother in Texas with me.  I think you know him, Interstate 27.  Yeah, that guy.  He is kinda useless.  He terminates in the north at Interstate 40, all well and good, and he is short like me, but shorter at 124 miles.  Then he goes through Lubbock and just ends!!  Into a freeway too., but his evil twin Is US 87.  If he would stretch his legs just another 100 miles he could actually hookup with Interstate 40s brother, I-20.  Many think he needs to go north of Amarillo, which I agree, but he would then leave me in Texas alone. 

sparker

Can you hear me?  I'm so tiny, some folks completely forget I'm here.  I'm Oregon's version of I-405, the runt of the litter.  Compared with my middle brother in Seattle and that big bully brother in L.A., I don't really have all that much to do except distribute traffic from US 26 and 30, and serve as an object of scorn from local planning folks, especially at PSU -- their offices overlook my southern flanks.  At only a little over 4 miles long, I'd certainly have an inferiority complex.....

except......I'VE GOT THE BEST F---ING BRIDGE OF ALL YOU 405's!!!!  BIG OL' TIED ARCH, DOUBLE-DECKED!!  SO TAKE THAT AND PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE!!!

Yeah, I know, I'm in Portland, and as just another road, I'm supposed to let the light rail, the trolley, and even the Amtrak Cascade service take center-stage, but......thanks, ODOT, for putting me on the neatest bridge in the state (sorry, Coos Bay).  By the way, when I'm not totally packed up with traffic from my white-shielded cohorts, I'm also the best way to get to Powell's* from just about anywhere in the metro area.  So I've got that going for me.....which is nice!

*for those not familiar with Portland, Powell's is 1 square city block of books.  Chances are if it's been published anywhere, Powell's has a copy.   

KG909

Quote from: sparker on August 03, 2016, 02:39:51 AM
Hey guys, I'm I-210.  Yeah, the California one, not that poser in Louisiana!  I used to be fat, happy, and complete, until some yahoos decided I needed an extension out through Fontucky and San Berdoo.  Guess they thought with my number the whole thing'd be 7 times better than with the previous number they wanted to use.  But I got my sorry ass caught in bureaucratic hell -- they took my rear end away from me, although someone says I still own it -- but now it has big green "57" numbers slapped all over it like it was a bottle of Heinz sauce.  I was supposed to just walk my butt out to Redlands like I owned the road, but somehow those same mofos that talked me into getting that extension in the first place have hung me out to dry.  Now there's more goddam big-ass green signs, with MY number, on the road that should've been ME!  My uncle I-15 and cousin I-215 laugh like hyenas every time they cross what should have been my path.  I can't really blame 'em, not with my d--k hanging out in San Dimas with nowhere to go!  Shit, am I pathetic or what?  If I ever get hold of one of those morons who got me into this mess, I'm going to take one of those green 210 shields and shove it, point-first, right up their..........(transmission mercifully cut off here).       
"Fontucky"
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~Fuccboi

Darkchylde

Hello, I'm I-49. I wasn't originally planned, but I started out with a fairly important job - connecting three of western Louisiana's larger cities. And I did it well. But I'm not like that little girl over in the southeast part of the state, content to be a glorified I-10 bypass. I've got bigger aspirations. Now I'm going through some growth spurts, starting to make my presence known in Arkansas and Missouri. Hell, I'm even going to poke into Texas a little bit just because I can. As soon as I'm done filling out in all the right places, I'll connect Cajun Country to the Midwest... and you are going to love me.

I'm a little miffed about my north end though. Sure, I get to Kansas City... technically... but I end at two 3dis. Grandpappy 71 really needs to get rid of those three damn lights.

ethanhopkin14

Let's pretend every interstate is a person.  What would they say about themselves when introducing themselves?

I will go first with a bland one:

My name is Interstate 2.  I am the lowest numbered interstate.  Some people also call me by my nickname, US-83.  I am from South Texas and haven't traveled anywhere in my life.  I am a city boy so I don't know the country life.  I have never seen hills either.  I have two friends I see a lot, Interstate 69E and Interstate 69C, but they too haven't ever met any other interstates besides me.  I will one day grow to be a much more important figure, but sadly, I will still not leave the state of Texas, but I do have random mile markers that prove I will eventually travel outside of bubble! 



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