What small things stand between you and a roadgeeking achievement, such as highway clinches or state county clinches?
For me:
Roads -- approximately 23 mies of US 220 between US 64 and NC 24/NC 27 are all that stand between me and a complete clinch of that route.
Counties -- Suffolk and Nassau, NY, are all that I need to clinch New York. Also, the two island counties in Massachusetts.
MA 114 east of MA 107 (about 2 miles). I have everything west of MA 107.
I-10 from I-75 to the end of da' road in Jax. Since I live in Oregon that means it's a fat chance of me clinching this route...LOL!
Rick
I've driven the entirety of the Interstate system in Maryland...except for that tiny bit of I-70 between I-68 and the Pennsylvania line. D'oh!
Honorable mention: I-95 north of US 80 and I-516 north of I-16 are all that stand between me and a clinch of Georgia's Interstate system.
Also, I've clinched 7 of Connecticut's 8 counties - Litchfield is the only one missing.
Nantucket, and one county in western Maine, if I were concerned with county clinching. (I do plan to get to Nantucket this year.)
Nunavut, for province clinching. That's a tough one.
Western Australia. Don't see myself going back just for that province clinch.
Roadwise, I wouldn't really pick anything out that taunts me. As I go places, I fill in my clinches. I'm just upset that I can't drive US 101, CA 1, and old US 99 as part of a loop.
I'll finish off I-95 in Florida this June. But to get to the overall clinch, I need a segment in Massachusetts and the entire segment north of I-395 in Bangor on up to the border. It'll be several years at the earliest before I have any chance to get either of those.
To finish Maryland's Interstates, I need I-70 inside I-695, all of I-795, and 0.8 miles of one of the I-895 spurs, so a total of 11.6 miles. I also have 0.4 miles of Maryland's portion of US-29 remaining (the part north of I-70). But finding the time to go up to the Baltimore area and drive those segments is a nuisance. I knocked off several other segments last week en route to Hershey for a hockey game, but getting up there in time to eat something prior to the game posed a time limitation.
In Florida, I have about 8 miles of I-275 remaining. I also have all of I-75 north of I-4 remaining. This summer on our way south I figure we may come down I-75 from Macon for a change from I-95, but clinching both I-275 and I-75 is not an option on the same trip (wife won't go for it at that point due to the length of time we will have been in the car over two days by then, and we will not pass through the Tampa area again on the trip because we do a loop around the southern half of the state and then take the Auto Train home). So I have to choose, and whichever segment is left over will feel like the highways giving me the finger! I'll probably opt for I-275 because the Sunshine Skyway is a scenic change of pace.
I have travelled almost all of the M4 in England except for the extreme western end, and I haven't gone over into Wales at all. I should have done that when I took a weekend trip to Bristol back in April 2007, as currently we have no trips to Europe on the radar.
In terms of both interstate clinches and counties, NYC and Long Island. Also Rutland and Orleans counties in Vermont, and there are other places in eastern PA, mid/upper NJ, and New England that have one or two county "holes".
ON 34
Quite a few places where roadmeets have caused me to have haphazard clinches scattered about in an unorganized fashion
NY 11A
The remainder of NY 12B
Those remaining state highways in the Adirondacks I haven't clinched
ON 15
ON 2
The roads between (and including) US 20 and NY 5 is the vicinity of Syracuse that currently take a bite out of my CHM map
NY 15 and NY 15A
A-50
ON 401 between the Toronto Zoo and Kingston, and especially the segment between ON 404 and Victoria Park Ave
I-66 in DC
The southern end of the Don Valley Parkway
...
I'll probably find more if I spend more time with my CHM map.
I have all Mississippi interstates clinched until I-22 is completed. The next state in line for completion is Alabama. I just need I-165 in Mobile and I-59 north of the Argo exit.
That little section of I-380 north of US-20 in Waterloo.
I have all of the numbered highways in the Quad City metro area (within I-80 and I-280) except US-6 between IL-84 and I-80. That one's a little easier to get to than Waterloo, though.
Having a job and children.
Things I didn't get photos of (and now it's too late):
* Embarcadero Freeway
* I-680/Future CA 238 overpass
* SR 533 BGS on I-86, Vernon, CT
* (a whole bunch of other I-86 stuff)
* covered-up but still recognizable I-291 BGS on CT 72, New Britain
* tons of old Southern Florida stuff, including Alt A1A, temp end of I-95, FL 786 signed as S-74, etc
* way way in the future I-530 construction in Pine Bluff, AR (they weren't calling it that back then)
More taunts:
The portion of I-95 between northern I-495 and southern I-93 in the Boston area for a clinch in Massachusetts.
The portion of I-87 north of Exit 38 for an entire clinch of that route.
The last 14 km of ON 401 that aren't driveable yet.
All of ON 404 north of Mulock, about 2~4 km I think.
And I might have a gap somewhere on the Gardiner.
The section of Pau (France) ringroad from the A64 exit to D817 (former N117) East. Is the only section of the official E07 I haven't clinched yet. Also the Westernmost section of Spanish A-22... but it hasn't been built yet.
In California...
210 between 39 and 215 - almost had a chance to go on there with a friend but we missed our exit.
historic US 66 north/east of Hesperia
99 between 36 and Los Molinos - my one trip to Red Bluff years ago ended up with me taking a different route to Chico along old US 99W, so I didn't get to travel down old 99E.
77 in its (short) entirety, which I have never driven on despite spending much of my life in the Bay Area. I've also only driven a short part of 131 in Marin County
213 in metro Los Angeles, I've traversed Western Avenue recently but have only hit up a part of 213 (while I've clinched nearby 103). I guess the part of 47 north of 103 also would qualify in this category.
I had US 6 clinched from California to Cape Cod, then Ohio DOT went out and relocated a segment in Sandusky, enough for me to count it as a de-clinch. I've had some of my other long US route clinches undone like that, like US 101 until I went back to re-clinch a short segment north of Ukiah CA after a college class reunion last October. (The Willits Bypass will do that to me again, but not for a few years.) Fortunately, the Interstates don't get realigned that often, though it happens occasionally, and of course it's still "whack a mole" with all the new segments opening up in places inconvenient to me. At least the upcoming St. Louis road meet will be an opportunity/excuse to restore my clinch of I-70, after a few miles were relocated to the new Stan Musial bridge and its approaches.
A different kind of "taunting", but back in the 55mph National Maximum Speed Limit days, I felt taunted by a 60mph white-on-black speed limit sign on old US 101 south of San Clemente CA, visible from the southbound lanes of I-5 which replaced the old road. That sign, alas, is long gone (that part of the old road largely remains, for beach parking and a bike trail).
Ontario Hwy 72... it's just so far away.
- Alaska's distant boroughs and Hawaii's Kalawao County (the latter that has visiting restrictions)
- US-63 in NW Wisconsin. The lone US route left to clinch in the state - out of the way of most of my routes
The stretch of I-87 co-signed with I-90 to complete I-87 from the Bruckner to Northway Exit 20.
The stretch of I-276 in PA from US 1 to the Delaware Bridge.
I-95 from US 1 in Dedham to US 1 in Sharon prevents me from clinching I-95 from the Mass Pike to the DC beltway.
I-90 east of I-93 in MA
The stretch of I-176 from the PA pike to the PA 10 interchange (old ending)
I-195 in ME east of US 1.
Quote from: hbelkins on February 23, 2014, 12:47:22 PM
What small things stand between you and a roadgeeking achievement, such as highway clinches or state county clinches?
For me:
Roads -- approximately 23 mies of US 220 between US 64 and NC 24/NC 27 are all that stand between me and a complete clinch of that route.
Counties -- Suffolk and Nassau, NY, are all that I need to clinch New York. Also, the two island counties in Massachusetts.
Those same MA island counties for me; but for NY, it was Richmond County that taunted me longest. Of course, now I've been there a zillion times...
Also, Forest County, PA.
Quote from: 1 on February 23, 2014, 12:49:18 PM
MA 114 east of MA 107 (about 2 miles). I have everything west of MA 107.
I drove that whole part yesterday. You're not missing anything -- you can take a waiver.
I just need I-59 in Louisiana and I-510 south of Michoud Blvd for interstates there.
The US routes are coming along but still a ways off. US 90 would fulfill a big chunk.
I will never be able to clinch Louisiana's state highways. My goal is to at least get the ones in Rapides parish while I live here but this is a huge and weirdly shaped parish.
Nantucket is the only county in Massachusetts that I'm missing.
I-795 is the only interstate in Maryland that I'm missing.
On a more "d'oh!" level, I have all of New York's I-690 except the short segment between I-90 and NY 690 (i.e., the ramps to the Thruway).
The 50 feet between the US 53 south ramp on I-535 and its terminus. 50 freaking feet.
Collecting Moutrie County in Illinois. I never have a good excuse to get there, and it's the only county north of I-70 in Illinois I have not been to.
US-34 between Mendota and Princeton. Again, never a good reason to use it.
The original segment of VA 168 Business.
I was just looking at my Clinched Highway Mapping data and I was reminded of Virginia's Interstates. The only things keeping me from clinching all of Virginia's Interstates are all of I-464 (5.7 miles), all of I-564 (2.8 miles), two segments of I-195 (1.2 miles in total), all of I-381 (1.1 miles), and the part of I-77 north of I-81 (25.6 miles). The I-195 portion would be easy enough to remedy the next time I'm in Richmond. The rest of those, not so much, especially I-381 (which is in Bristol, a good 380 miles from home in a part of the state I haven't visited since May 1997, coupled with my dislike for using I-81 to get there) and I-77 (there is really no reason why I'd ever be on that particular segment of that road other than trying to find an excuse for the clinch).
Distance becomes a major nuisance sometimes, doesn't it?
Illinois:
I-39 between Bloomington-Normal and I-80 would clinch I-39 for me
I-80 between I-39 and the Iowa border would clinch I-80 in Illinois
Edens, Bishop Ford, Skyway, and IL-394 would clinch all Chicagoland expressways in Illinois for me
Illinois/Iowa
I-280 from the Centennial Expressway to I-80 JCT in Iowa would clinch all of I-280
Quote from: SD Mapman on February 24, 2014, 09:49:17 AM
The 50 feet between the US 53 south ramp on I-535 and its terminus. 50 freaking feet.
Since the terminus and the end sign marking it is at 5th St. in Superior, it's more like 700 freaking feet.
That gap is one I managed to miss on my first trip to Duluth, too. I had to tweak my itinerary for last year's trip to the northeastern corner of South Dakota (continuing to northern Manitoba) to take care of it.
Quote from: Duke87 on February 24, 2014, 12:33:49 AM
On a more "d'oh!" level, I have all of New York's I-690 except the short segment between I-90 and NY 690 (i.e., the ramps to the Thruway).
You can count that as clinched, in my book.
there was once a CA-17 shield visible at the MacArthur Maze - the 580 patch had fallen down. (so, incongruously, the route was signed as "17 west")
I managed to get a night photo of it (kind of a miracle in and of itself) but when I went back the next morning for proper photos, it had been patched!
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 24, 2014, 04:11:50 PM
there was once a CA-17 shield visible at the MacArthur Maze - the 580 patch had fallen down. (so, incongruously, the route was signed as "17 west")
I managed to get a night photo of it (kind of a miracle in and of itself) but when I went back the next morning for proper photos, it had been patched!
Oh god. The
NE2 NE4 shield in Pownal. Shawn had a tip on one still standing, but by the time we got there only a metal post was present.
I have never seen a photo of a New England route shield, contemporary or modern.
Quote from: oscar on February 24, 2014, 03:24:13 PM
Quote from: SD Mapman on February 24, 2014, 09:49:17 AM
The 50 feet between the US 53 south ramp on I-535 and its terminus. 50 freaking feet.
Since the terminus and the end sign marking it is at 5th St. in Superior, it's more like 700 freaking feet.
That gap is one I managed to miss on my first trip to Duluth, too. I had to tweak my itinerary for last year's trip to the northeastern corner of South Dakota (continuing to northern Manitoba) to take care of it.
Still, I can see it there... s
Quote from: Duke87 on February 24, 2014, 12:33:49 AM
Nantucket is the only county in Massachusetts that I'm missing.
I believe you were willing to bike it with me?
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2014, 10:14:35 AM
I was just looking at my Clinched Highway Mapping data and I was reminded of Virginia's Interstates. The only things keeping me from clinching all of Virginia's Interstates are all of I-464 (5.7 miles), all of I-564 (2.8 miles), two segments of I-195 (1.2 miles in total), all of I-381 (1.1 miles), and the part of I-77 north of I-81 (25.6 miles). The I-195 portion would be easy enough to remedy the next time I'm in Richmond. The rest of those, not so much, especially I-381 (which is in Bristol, a good 380 miles from home in a part of the state I haven't visited since May 1997, coupled with my dislike for using I-81 to get there) and I-77 (there is really no reason why I'd ever be on that particular segment of that road other than trying to find an excuse for the clinch).
Distance becomes a major nuisance sometimes, doesn't it?
I-77 taunts me as well. It's the only interstate I need in VA, but it's so far away...
I'm still kicking myself for not taking care of all of my Virginia US route clinches when I lived in Lynchburg, especially business routes. There are places where I do not have full clinches that were only an hour away (like Farmville) that are now at least five hours away. And of course a bunch of routes (regular and business) in southwest Virginia, which are now double the distance.
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Quote from: Laura on February 25, 2014, 07:29:07 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2014, 10:14:35 AM
I was just looking at my Clinched Highway Mapping data and I was reminded of Virginia's Interstates. The only things keeping me from clinching all of Virginia's Interstates are all of I-464 (5.7 miles), all of I-564 (2.8 miles), two segments of I-195 (1.2 miles in total), all of I-381 (1.1 miles), and the part of I-77 north of I-81 (25.6 miles). The I-195 portion would be easy enough to remedy the next time I'm in Richmond. The rest of those, not so much, especially I-381 (which is in Bristol, a good 380 miles from home in a part of the state I haven't visited since May 1997, coupled with my dislike for using I-81 to get there) and I-77 (there is really no reason why I'd ever be on that particular segment of that road other than trying to find an excuse for the clinch).
Distance becomes a major nuisance sometimes, doesn't it?
I-77 taunts me as well. It's the only interstate I need in VA, but it's so far away...
I'm still kicking myself for not taking care of all of my Virginia US route clinches when I lived in Lynchburg, especially business routes. There are places where I do not have full clinches that were only an hour away (like Farmville) that are now at least five hours away. And of course a bunch of routes (regular and business) in southwest Virginia, which are now double the distance.
I-66, for some strange reason I have never had a chance to drive it, and I really do not know why. Also the part of I-95 south of I-395 in Miami (I know there was nothing I could do about it since I was on a bus, but it is still annoying).
I hope to take care of most of my short state route clinches in the area (VA 99, VA 121, VA 69) that I have not done yet on my trip home for Spring Break (right now I am hoping to clinch US 58 East of Hillsville to at least I-95 in Emporia, maybe even US 460 in Suffolk(partly clinched, but not as a driver). I stopped taking road trips for a while (I just clinched I-77 in VA last week when I feel like that should have been one of the first things done when I had a car). Also my goal on my last trip home from VT in May is to take care of all of the US 460 Business Routes on the trip leaving me with these three left (Richlands/Cedar Bluff, Tazewell, and Suffolk).
If I decide to sneak in a roadtrip in April, I hope to get the rest of I-81 past Wytheville and possibly US 23 from I-81 north to the Pikeville, KY area. Otherwise these routes including I-381 may not be clinched for a very long time. VA 147 in Chesterfield County could end up this way (I never got US 60 to about Forest Hill Ave if I'm not careful).
I-95 between Old Town and Houlton, ME, is the only segment I need to clinch the entire interstate.
I-68 between Cumberland and the WV border is the only segment I need for Maryland's interstates.
Quote from: Laura on February 25, 2014, 07:29:07 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2014, 10:14:35 AM
I was just looking at my Clinched Highway Mapping data and I was reminded of Virginia's Interstates. The only things keeping me from clinching all of Virginia's Interstates are all of I-464 (5.7 miles), all of I-564 (2.8 miles), two segments of I-195 (1.2 miles in total), all of I-381 (1.1 miles), and the part of I-77 north of I-81 (25.6 miles). The I-195 portion would be easy enough to remedy the next time I'm in Richmond. The rest of those, not so much, especially I-381 (which is in Bristol, a good 380 miles from home in a part of the state I haven't visited since May 1997, coupled with my dislike for using I-81 to get there) and I-77 (there is really no reason why I'd ever be on that particular segment of that road other than trying to find an excuse for the clinch).
Distance becomes a major nuisance sometimes, doesn't it?
I-77 taunts me as well. It's the only interstate I need in VA, but it's so far away...
....
For me it's not just that it's far away, though it is. It's also that it doesn't provide a logical route for me to go anywhere given that I live in the DC area. Sure, if I were headed south I could detour up that road, go through the tunnel to cross the state line, and then come back, but that would add an hour to what would already be bound to be a long drive and there's no way my wife would put up with it.
In an example of a really morbid line of thought, I found myself looking at a map trying to determine whether, if an elderly relative of ours who is in poor health in Ohio were to die shortly before our next trip to Florida, it would be practical to go from Ohio to the south via I-77 to knock off that segment, but I concluded I would be more interested in seeing Breaks Interstate Park and/or Cumberland Gap than finishing off that segment of I-77. Then I was embarrassed that I had engaged in that line of thought at all.
Quote from: NE2 on February 24, 2014, 05:02:20 PM
Oh god. The NE2 NE4 shield in Pownal. Shawn had a tip on one still standing, but by the time we got there only a metal post was present.
I have never seen a photo of a New England route shield, contemporary or modern.
someone must have taken it. that is good. it will show up again.
was this an independently mounted shield? I had thought all the NE routes were painted onto wooden telephone posts.
I missed the Vermont US-7 cutout in St. Albans. I think it was taken down days before I passed through in October, 2003, and definitely before I intentionally went to try to find it in 2006. as far as I know, the only surviving embossed US route cutout is a 41 in Calumet, Michigan.
Quote from: agentsteel53 on February 25, 2014, 09:22:20 AM
was this an independently mounted shield? I had thought all the NE routes were painted onto wooden telephone posts.
If the tip was correct, it was independently mounted, hanging by a wire from a hole in the post.
The thing which taunts me road-wise? I-89 is the only two digit interstate I've never been on in New England. I've been past it's southern terminus near Concord, NH on I-93 and at its junction with I-91 near White River Junction, VT.
All I'm missing in Massachusetts is northern Worcester County and Cape Cod.
I can't say for sure whether I drove all of I-90 back in the days when I worked for the state of Minnesota. If I can go from Albert Lea to the U.S. 52 junction near Rochester, I can claim I-90 from western Montana to Cleveland. I may try to drive that this summer since we're going to Minnesota for a family thing.
California Interstates: I am missing I-5 between CA-4 in Stockton and I-505, and living in the Bay Area, I think it's pretty unlikely that I'll be driving that stretch unless it's explicitly for clinching purposes. (Unless I move out of the Bay Area.) I'm also missing the small section between I-205 and I-580 near Tracy, and that's even less likely!
When I-905 is designated, I'll be missing that, and since I left San Diego 2 years ago, it's unlikely I'll be down there anytime soon, and while visiting I don't have much reason to go that far south anyways.
Quote from: citrus on February 25, 2014, 10:59:28 AMI'm also missing the small section between I-205 and I-580 near Tracy, and that's even less likely!
that's almost as bad as me missing I-80 between I-15 and I-215 in Salt Lake City for several years.
The entire state of Delaware. Somehow I've never managed to go there despite having entered all the surrounding states at least twice (though I've only ever passed through Maryland).
Quote from: Alps on February 25, 2014, 01:19:44 AM
Quote from: Duke87 on February 24, 2014, 12:33:49 AM
Nantucket is the only county in Massachusetts that I'm missing.
I believe you were willing to bike it with me?
Yes, although I do not own a bike and would have to rent or borrow one. That's easily done, though.
Thought of another one for me. I-80 in Indiana between the connector between I-90 and I-94 (exit 21 on the toll road) and the IN 39 exit (Exit 49) at LaPorte.
Most taunting one for me is WA SR 20, where I'm only missing the 6-mile section bypassing Omak and Okanogan. It's especially taunting because we turned off the road onto the business route looking for food, thinking maybe I'd get lucky and find something right away so we could go back to the road and preserve the clinch.
Well, we did find food right off of SR 20. Right off the northern junction with the business route, having already meandered all the way through town.
On the bright side, I do have a much less impressive clinch of SR 215 that I wouldn't otherwise have.
Quote from: Brandon on February 24, 2014, 09:50:31 AM
US-34 between Mendota and Princeton. Again, never a good reason to use it.
My piece of US-34 in Ilinois I always seem to miss is the segment around Earlville. It seems like whenever I am in that area, I have to get gas in Earlville. I suppose it would be easy to do if I ever return to the Chicago area, or even the DeKalb area, but then I'd probably still end up getting gas there. If I get that, I'll have all of US-34 east of NE 79 NW of Lincoln, NE (at least until they open the Missouri River bridge, but that will be easy).
I-95 (MA) between exits 51 and 58
I-93 north of Franconia Notch
MA 128 north of exit 18 (Beverly to Gloucester, not part of I-95)
Roads that I have not been on but would like to be on at least some of:
MA 1A, MA 2, NY 22, MA/NY 23, US 44, I-89, NH 125
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
Quote from: Zeffy on February 26, 2014, 04:03:42 PM
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
I don't drive yet (I'm 15). I have still clinched I-88 in New York.
Quote from: Zeffy on February 26, 2014, 04:03:42 PM
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
Don't worry about that too much. I was 24 before I finally got mine.
Quote from: Kacie Jane on February 26, 2014, 02:35:12 PM
Most taunting one for me is WA SR 20, where I'm only missing the 6-mile section bypassing Omak and Okanogan. It's especially taunting because we turned off the road onto the business route looking for food, thinking maybe I'd get lucky and find something right away so we could go back to the road and preserve the clinch.
Well, we did find food right off of SR 20. Right off the northern junction with the business route, having already meandered all the way through town.
On the bright side, I do have a much less impressive clinch of SR 215 that I wouldn't otherwise have.
meh. I'd count it. I have US-6 in so many bits and pieces and old alignments that there are certain freeway-multiplex and modern two-lane alignments which I barely would know where to find, much less have actually driven. but I consider myself having clinched US-6. I've driven
some section between all of the major and semi-major points, and have always backtracked (as opposed to "front-tracked") to connect separated alignments.
speaking of WA-20... I have done neither very much of that, nor a significant portion of US-2 in Washington. those are my two major missing roads in that state.
I believe I forgot a couple of these...
-I-55 between Joliet an Bloomington.
One county in Michigan UP.
Alleged "intelligent" traffic lights that are part of a system of lights that relay upcoming traffic to the next intersection, yet I sit at a protected left red for up to two minutes watching NOTHING coming the opposite way or sitting on a side-street red way seeing no cross-traffic in the immediate area.
Couldn't these "traffic engineers" fix these lights so that a 20-second green cycle CAN seamlessly fit into a normal 120 second cycle if it KNOWS main traffic won't be affected by the short red??
Another one I forgot: I'm about 10 miles from clinching I-96. I need the section between I-69 South and Cedar St in Lansing (which I'm up in that area so much, it's a wonder I haven't been on that stretch) and the mile or so southeast of I-94 in Detroit.
I'm also slightly annoyed by the fact that I have all of I-55 in Illinois except the minor stretches between I-155 and I-74 East, and then between BL 55 on the north side of Blormal and US-24.
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 25, 2014, 08:43:30 AM
Quote from: Laura on February 25, 2014, 07:29:07 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2014, 10:14:35 AM
I was just looking at my Clinched Highway Mapping data and I was reminded of Virginia's Interstates. The only things keeping me from clinching all of Virginia's Interstates are all of I-464 (5.7 miles), all of I-564 (2.8 miles), two segments of I-195 (1.2 miles in total), all of I-381 (1.1 miles), and the part of I-77 north of I-81 (25.6 miles). The I-195 portion would be easy enough to remedy the next time I'm in Richmond. The rest of those, not so much, especially I-381 (which is in Bristol, a good 380 miles from home in a part of the state I haven't visited since May 1997, coupled with my dislike for using I-81 to get there) and I-77 (there is really no reason why I'd ever be on that particular segment of that road other than trying to find an excuse for the clinch).
Distance becomes a major nuisance sometimes, doesn't it?
I-77 taunts me as well. It's the only interstate I need in VA, but it's so far away...
....
For me it's not just that it's far away, though it is. It's also that it doesn't provide a logical route for me to go anywhere given that I live in the DC area. Sure, if I were headed south I could detour up that road, go through the tunnel to cross the state line, and then come back, but that would add an hour to what would already be bound to be a long drive and there's no way my wife would put up with it.
In an example of a really morbid line of thought, I found myself looking at a map trying to determine whether, if an elderly relative of ours who is in poor health in Ohio were to die shortly before our next trip to Florida, it would be practical to go from Ohio to the south via I-77 to knock off that segment, but I concluded I would be more interested in seeing Breaks Interstate Park and/or Cumberland Gap than finishing off that segment of I-77. Then I was embarrassed that I had engaged in that line of thought at all.
I found us some reasons to go north on I-77: http://www.visitmercercounty.com/familyFun_sports.html
At the southern end of I-77 is Mt. Airy, NC, famous for being the home of Andy Griffith. There's an Andy Griffith museum there.
Quote from: 1 on February 26, 2014, 04:04:58 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on February 26, 2014, 04:03:42 PM
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
I don't drive yet (I'm 15). I have still clinched I-88 in New York.
Yep. I clinched lots of routes before I had a car (I bought mine when I was almost 17) through family trips and trips with friends who did have cars. I had more local taunting gaps before I had a car than after. It was easier to convince friends who just got cars to drive places (Omg, lets go to ______ because we can!) because of the newfound freedom that a car brings. Haha, I was one of those people easily convinced because road geek.
Quote from: Laura on February 27, 2014, 08:14:52 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 25, 2014, 08:43:30 AM
Quote from: Laura on February 25, 2014, 07:29:07 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2014, 10:14:35 AM
I was just looking at my Clinched Highway Mapping data and I was reminded of Virginia's Interstates. The only things keeping me from clinching all of Virginia's Interstates are all of I-464 (5.7 miles), all of I-564 (2.8 miles), two segments of I-195 (1.2 miles in total), all of I-381 (1.1 miles), and the part of I-77 north of I-81 (25.6 miles). The I-195 portion would be easy enough to remedy the next time I'm in Richmond. The rest of those, not so much, especially I-381 (which is in Bristol, a good 380 miles from home in a part of the state I haven't visited since May 1997, coupled with my dislike for using I-81 to get there) and I-77 (there is really no reason why I'd ever be on that particular segment of that road other than trying to find an excuse for the clinch).
Distance becomes a major nuisance sometimes, doesn't it?
I-77 taunts me as well. It's the only interstate I need in VA, but it's so far away...
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For me it's not just that it's far away, though it is. It's also that it doesn't provide a logical route for me to go anywhere given that I live in the DC area. Sure, if I were headed south I could detour up that road, go through the tunnel to cross the state line, and then come back, but that would add an hour to what would already be bound to be a long drive and there's no way my wife would put up with it.
In an example of a really morbid line of thought, I found myself looking at a map trying to determine whether, if an elderly relative of ours who is in poor health in Ohio were to die shortly before our next trip to Florida, it would be practical to go from Ohio to the south via I-77 to knock off that segment, but I concluded I would be more interested in seeing Breaks Interstate Park and/or Cumberland Gap than finishing off that segment of I-77. Then I was embarrassed that I had engaged in that line of thought at all.
I found us some reasons to go north on I-77: http://www.visitmercercounty.com/familyFun_sports.html
At the southern end of I-77 is Mt. Airy, NC, famous for being the home of Andy Griffith. There's an Andy Griffith museum there.
Quote from: 1 on February 26, 2014, 04:04:58 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on February 26, 2014, 04:03:42 PM
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
I don't drive yet (I'm 15). I have still clinched I-88 in New York.
Yep. I clinched lots of routes before I had a car (I bought mine when I was almost 17) through family trips and trips with friends who did have cars. I had more local taunting gaps before I had a car than after. It was easier to convince friends who just got cars to drive places (Omg, lets go to ______ because we can!) because of the newfound freedom that a car brings. Haha, I was one of those people easily convinced because road geek.
Quote from: Laura on February 27, 2014, 08:14:52 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 25, 2014, 08:43:30 AM
Quote from: Laura on February 25, 2014, 07:29:07 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 24, 2014, 10:14:35 AM
I was just looking at my Clinched Highway Mapping data and I was reminded of Virginia's Interstates. The only things keeping me from clinching all of Virginia's Interstates are all of I-464 (5.7 miles), all of I-564 (2.8 miles), two segments of I-195 (1.2 miles in total), all of I-381 (1.1 miles), and the part of I-77 north of I-81 (25.6 miles). The I-195 portion would be easy enough to remedy the next time I'm in Richmond. The rest of those, not so much, especially I-381 (which is in Bristol, a good 380 miles from home in a part of the state I haven't visited since May 1997, coupled with my dislike for using I-81 to get there) and I-77 (there is really no reason why I'd ever be on that particular segment of that road other than trying to find an excuse for the clinch).
Distance becomes a major nuisance sometimes, doesn't it?
I-77 taunts me as well. It's the only interstate I need in VA, but it's so far away...
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For me it's not just that it's far away, though it is. It's also that it doesn't provide a logical route for me to go anywhere given that I live in the DC area. Sure, if I were headed south I could detour up that road, go through the tunnel to cross the state line, and then come back, but that would add an hour to what would already be bound to be a long drive and there's no way my wife would put up with it.
In an example of a really morbid line of thought, I found myself looking at a map trying to determine whether, if an elderly relative of ours who is in poor health in Ohio were to die shortly before our next trip to Florida, it would be practical to go from Ohio to the south via I-77 to knock off that segment, but I concluded I would be more interested in seeing Breaks Interstate Park and/or Cumberland Gap than finishing off that segment of I-77. Then I was embarrassed that I had engaged in that line of thought at all.
I found us some reasons to go north on I-77: http://www.visitmercercounty.com/familyFun_sports.html
At the southern end of I-77 is Mt. Airy, NC, famous for being the home of Andy Griffith. There's an Andy Griffith museum there.
Quote from: 1 on February 26, 2014, 04:04:58 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on February 26, 2014, 04:03:42 PM
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
I don't drive yet (I'm 15). I have still clinched I-88 in New York.
Yep. I clinched lots of routes before I had a car (I bought mine when I was almost 17) through family trips and trips with friends who did have cars. I had more local taunting gaps before I had a car than after. It was easier to convince friends who just got cars to drive places (Omg, lets go to ______ because we can!) because of the newfound freedom that a car brings. Haha, I was one of those people easily convinced because road geek.
First off, I did not consistently have a car until I was 20, and due to family trips, band trips(etc.) I had already clinched I-95 from Miami, FL to I-87 in the Bronx (minus the Wilmington, DE portion). Also I have clinched all of I-77 south of US 460 in West Virginia without driving the majority of it (from I-74 near Mount Airy to the south end) on mission trips.
Unfortunately, around 20, roadgeeking became secondary to other priorities (school and other things), until I decided to go to the Pikeville meet last October. I probably had only done three real(and short) road trips in over a year (two in the New River Valley, the other around Richmond last March).
As a result, US 52 itself taunts me between I-74 and US 58 Business/US 221 in Hillsville now. If I get a job in North Carolina this summer, my plans are to hopefully clinch that and most of US 52(I do have the part between Hillsville and Wytheville) and Huntington, WV.
What taunts me most often in this hobby is my wife...makes fun of me.
On the other hand she allows me to take about 10 rides a year by myself so I have the freedom to do circuitous things and double-backs to clinch highways. HAven't progressed to being able to spend the night yet on these rides but maybe one day.
I also live in one corner of Virginia where Bristol is 5 hrs from me. The only way you can ever make progress like that is to get up at 3 a.m. and stay gone 15-18 hrs, which is what I do. It still took a long time to clinch the Virginia primary system, and inconveniently the newest segment to open since then is a US 460 Bypass just SE of Grundy. So I have to spend 12 hrs just to go get that. So I am waiting on an opportunity to accomplish something else out that way.
Other things that taunt me:
I messed up finishing the western US 422 in 2003 when I mistook one of the I-77 ramps in Cleveland for the other one, and are missing the 3/4 mile in between them (will go to Cleveland this summer to get that but I will also clinch nationally US 322 and I-77 to make it worth the effort).
I am taunted by the digital age starting too late. Wish digital photography was available when I lived in Norfolk 1991-93...the number of older shields and cutouts still available throughout Virginia was mind-boggling. Those who have seen some of Mike Summa's stuff - he only got a small fraction of what was out there.
I am taunted by US 4 having a 7-mile detour when I drove the rest of it last summer.
Mapmikey
Quote from: 1 on February 26, 2014, 04:04:58 PM
Quote from: Zeffy on February 26, 2014, 04:03:42 PM
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
I don't drive yet (I'm 15). I have still clinched I-88 in New York.
Yep. I clinched lots of routes before I had a car (I bought mine when I was almost 17) through family trips and trips with friends who did have cars. I had more local taunting gaps before I had a car than after. It was easier to convince friends who just got cars to drive places (Omg, lets go to ______ because we can!) because of the newfound freedom that a car brings. Haha, I was one of those people easily convinced because road geek.
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First off, I did not consistently have a car until I was 20, and due to family trips, band trips(etc.) I had already clinched I-95 from Miami, FL to I-87 in the Bronx (minus the Wilmington, DE portion). Also I have clinched all of I-77 south of US 460 in West Virginia without driving the majority of it (from I-74 near Mount Airy to the south end) on mission trips.
Unfortunately, around 20, roadgeeking became secondary to other priorities (school and other things), until I decided to go to the Pikeville meet last October. I probably had only done three real(and short) road trips in over a year (two in the New River Valley, the other around Richmond last March).
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Yep. I really think that part of my reasoning for not clinching more in college was because 1. Even though i had a car, gas is expensive as a broke college student, 2. Road geeking was secondary to other priorities at that point of my life.
Quote from: Mapmikey on February 27, 2014, 09:06:43 AM
What taunts me most often in this hobby is my wife...makes fun of me.
On the other hand she allows me to take about 10 rides a year by myself so I have the freedom to do circuitous things and double-backs to clinch highways. HAven't progressed to being able to spend the night yet on these rides but maybe one day.
I also live in one corner of Virginia where Bristol is 5 hrs from me. The only way you can ever make progress like that is to get up at 3 a.m. and stay gone 15-18 hrs, which is what I do. It still took a long time to clinch the Virginia primary system, and inconveniently the newest segment to open since then is a US 460 Bypass just SE of Grundy. So I have to spend 12 hrs just to go get that. So I am waiting on an opportunity to accomplish something else out that way.
I'm trying to think about this from a non-road geek perspective, but it's hard to do! Does she not like traveling very much? Before I dated Mike, I had non-road geek boyfriends, but they all liked to travel and see and do new things. So we'd mix the two things: let's go away for the weekend to see your friend in _______ town, or hey let's go to this event or place in _______ town, and take the long way home. And there. Or not even the long way, just a different way.
If she doesn't like to travel, then I guess that won't work.
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Quote from: Laura on February 27, 2014, 12:32:33 PM
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Yep. I really think that part of my reasoning for not clinching more in college was because 1. Even though i had a car, gas is expensive as a broke college student, 2. Road geeking was secondary to other priorities at that point of my life.
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When I was in college, I was annoyed when 92-octane gas got "expensive" by rising above $1.00 a gallon! :-D
Quote from: Laura on February 27, 2014, 12:32:33 PM
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Quote from: Mapmikey on February 27, 2014, 09:06:43 AM
What taunts me most often in this hobby is my wife...makes fun of me.
On the other hand she allows me to take about 10 rides a year by myself so I have the freedom to do circuitous things and double-backs to clinch highways. HAven't progressed to being able to spend the night yet on these rides but maybe one day.
I also live in one corner of Virginia where Bristol is 5 hrs from me. The only way you can ever make progress like that is to get up at 3 a.m. and stay gone 15-18 hrs, which is what I do. It still took a long time to clinch the Virginia primary system, and inconveniently the newest segment to open since then is a US 460 Bypass just SE of Grundy. So I have to spend 12 hrs just to go get that. So I am waiting on an opportunity to accomplish something else out that way.
I'm trying to think about this from a non-road geek perspective, but it's hard to do! Does she not like traveling very much? Before I dated Mike, I had non-road geek boyfriends, but they all liked to travel and see and do new things. So we'd mix the two things: let's go away for the weekend to see your friend in _______ town, or hey let's go to this event or place in _______ town, and take the long way home. And there. Or not even the long way, just a different way.
If she doesn't like to travel, then I guess that won't work.
I think the hard part of this can be the question of how far out of the way, or how much of a double-back, would be reasonable. Ms1995hoo is usually OK with going another route if she knows I'm avoiding construction or heavy traffic, even if it means a longer distance. Avoiding I-95 between DC and Richmond would be a prime example of both. But the problem becomes where do you draw the line as to how far out of the way is OK? Let me refer to the I-77 example you and I both mentioned earlier in this thread. Suppose Ms1995hoo and I were driving down I-81 in Virginia en route to Alabama for a golf trip. Via I-81 it's a tick under 120 miles from the southern end of the I-64 concurrency to the southern end of the I-77 concurrency. If I wanted to go around via I-64 and I-77 to allow me to finish clinching said routes in Virginia,* it would add at least 70 miles. When we're already going to be in the car 10 to 12 hours that day, adding another hour or so is not something to which she takes kindly! I suppose it's easy to say, "Oh, it's just another hour," but the problem becomes that I can probably find quite a few "just another hour" detours at multiple points along any given trip! So the question is how and where to use those.
*Earlier I listed unclinched segments in Virginia. I had forgotten about I-64 west of Clifton Forge. On our trip to the Homestead a few years ago I exited at Clifton Forge and used the back road over the mountain at the suggestion of a friend who lives in Clifton Forge. Nice drive to do one time.
Oh this is totally me and my wife too. She knows that I love roads, road signs and maps. And she knows that I know the fastest way to get somewhere. But now sea figured out if I get off a main highway that I'm going for clinching another highway somewhere. She really does love my neediness but I, too, watch for that balance of what is too far out of the way when we are traveling.
Quote from: Laura on February 27, 2014, 12:32:33 PM
I'm trying to think about this from a non-road geek perspective, but it's hard to do! Does she not like traveling very much? Before I dated Mike, I had non-road geek boyfriends, but they all liked to travel and see and do new things. So we'd mix the two things: let's go away for the weekend to see your friend in _______ town, or hey let's go to this event or place in _______ town, and take the long way home. And there. Or not even the long way, just a different way.
If she doesn't like to travel, then I guess that won't work.
I hope I didn't come across as blaming my wife for anything...she definitely is not a road-geek but I think I finally got her to understand the interest in cutouts. Maybe. Plus in addition to the rides I get to work on the websites a fair amount.
Anyway, when we were in high school and college (late 1980s) we used to ride around because there wasn't much else to do. But she is over riding for riding's sake and traffic in N. Virginia is terrible for her tastes. If we are traveling somewhere I have some latitude in varying the routes but there are some limits as she gets car sick relatively easily - so limited mountain driving and also can't be hours and hours and hours otherwise. But we've driven cross country a few times and last month completed a 4100 mile trip to Fla and Baton Rouge where about half of that triangular journey was new mileage for me. This summer we are taking a train to Denver but then driving to Yellowstone and Vancouver BC and back to Denver...so I'm getting opportunities.
My "complaint" is that I am running out of places to go that can be accomplished without staying the night or doing the long days. This is partly due to the fact that I have never lived anywhere as a driver other than VA or SC. I have finished VA and DE; 90% of NC; 75% of SC; 60% of MD. WV is a slog no matter where you go but I do have it in the rotation. The potential pool for US routes and Interstates I haven't reached in the east is dwindling. The long days don't bother me so long as get a good night sleep the night before. My terrible commute has innoculated me to the point I don't notice the first 3 hours of a drive anymore.
Mapmikey
Quote from: 1995hoo on February 27, 2014, 12:49:52 PM
Quote from: Laura on February 27, 2014, 12:32:33 PM
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Yep. I really think that part of my reasoning for not clinching more in college was because 1. Even though i had a car, gas is expensive as a broke college student, 2. Road geeking was secondary to other priorities at that point of my life.
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When I was in college, I was annoyed when 92-octane gas got "expensive" by rising above $1.00 a gallon! :-D
For me, my brokeness was mostly as a sophomore (when I actually did take a couple trips). My junior year was really when I, for the most part, did not take any despite having a bit more money (18 credit hours with two labs my first semester and then 15 credits plus working two days a week for the most part the second).
My sickness of US 460 did help me a little bit though as well. On the way home for Christmas last fall, I took US 60 instead from I-81 near Lexington to VA 147/SR 653 near Midlothian (OT, but has any progress been made on extending VA 147 south to US 360?) so I have a slight taunting of US 60 now through Richmond mostly from VA 161 to Laburnum Ave (with some parts clinched in Downtown Richmond). I am also hoping to take US 58 most of the way home for Spring Break (starting near Hillsville), but I have a US 340 (from Greenville to Waynesboro) shortcut back-up plan just in case.
The thing that's taunting me the most at the moment is the fact that the only portion of the entire length of I-95 that I have left to clinch is between Gray and Lewiston (between exits 63 and 80) and north of Medway/Millinocket (exit 244). Those are also the only portions of interstate in Maine I have left to clinch.
The mere existence of US 491.
Every time I see this thread's title, I see this...
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Quote from: Zeffy on February 26, 2014, 04:03:42 PM
What's preventing me from getting a Roadgeek achievement? Oh, maybe the fact that I don't have a personal vehicle yet. And I'm 20...
I'm 20 too, but I already have a personal vehicle.
I had the only possible partial clinch of the weird-numbered ARA-A1, leaving me with only 0.4 miles, from AP-2 to N-II, to fully clinch it (And the whole regional motorway system, as ARA-A1 is the only one). However, as of today this is no longer the case...
I didn't own a car until I finished college. Indeed, prior to this forum starting up (which was at about the same time), I had no interaction with other roadgeeks, although I had by that point known about and been visiting some people's websites (including this one) for years. Prior to this point I obviously hadn't seen much roadwise - only what we drove on family trips, which were never particularly ambitious in scope, and my parents pretty much always said no when I asked to take a different longer route.
I did, however, "clinch" the entire NYC subway system while I was in college, so that's something.
The concept of clinching counties (as opposed to roads or train lines) was something that never occurred to me before I started going to road meets, though.
Strangely enough, AR and LA taunted me in my early days, as late as 1997. Somehow, till then, I would get within mere miles of either border with TX, but yet hadn't been to either state. Some next-door neighbors had a couple of friends that landed a job in Nashville but didn't have a way to get there, so I took them. Nice trip, except I was dead tired by the time I got them up there, and by the time I got back. So, not only did I HA!ha! in a way about breaking the AR and LA barrier, but I also finally got to see the Mississippi River, and TN and MS.
More recently, the big taunt has been just getting and keeping a car, as well as the $$ for the gas.
Thought of two more for me. I only need I-579 to have all of Pennsylvania's interstates, and I only need I-395 to have all of Virginia's.
For me, it would have to be finding worded pedestrian signals, rare traffic signals, or rare sirens and railroad crossing equipment on the other side of my state or near me but just out of reasonable driving distance.
The short segment of I-77 in Ohio between Akron and I-90 is all that stands between me and clinching it. But I don't know if I will ever be up in northern Ohio again. That would be my first clinch of any long-distance significance.
A few things nearly clinched, listing the area I missed:
-I-87 except north of US 11
-The New York Thruway within Exit 24
-I-787 within the Exit 23 interchange
-I-684 north of I-84
-I-490 within Exit 29 in New York
-NY 93 west of the Robert Moses Parkway
-NY 98 between NY 31A and NY 31
-Jackie Robinson Parkway south(west) of Exit 1. Maybe 1/4 mile.
-NJ 3 between NJ 495 and US 1-9
Since 2007, that realigned section of Interstate 195 in Providence. May try to rectify that next week.
Also having never documented that square Delaware 2 shield on Union Street in Wilmington.
Looking at a map made me think of this thread and an issue that gets to me periodically: Road extensions. I had driven the entire eastern segment of Corridor H last July on the way back from a weekend trip to Pennsylvania. Later that year they extended it 4.6 miles to the west and I no longer have that road clinched. The time involved in going out there just to cross off 4.6 miles makes it impractical if I'm not headed someplace else, so I think it may just have to wait until they complete some more of it.
I suppose this is sort of the double-edged sword of living in a heavily developed area. We don't get all that many entirely brand-new roads opening around here (Maryland Route 200, the Intercounty Connector, being the notable exception in recent years), so the quest for new routes and the like becomes complicated by the distances involved. On the other hand, I suppose if you live in a state where they're always extending things (North Carolina comes to mind immediately) it might be mildly frustrating that every time you think you've crossed something off your list they go and extend it and you have to go back again.
The distance issue sort of dovetails with the question of how much time it's reasonable to devote to side trips and exploring when you have somewhere to be. I was looking at the map of North Carolina trying to figure out whether, on our next trip south to Florida for Christmas, I could cross off some of the segments that have opened in the Triangle area since I graduated from Duke in 1998 and left the area. For example, back then I-540 existed only between I-40 and US-70. Or, outside the Triangle, the I-795 number didn't exist at all and it'd be easy to check that off as a short alternative to a portion of I-95. But I quickly determined I'll only be able to manage SOME of the missing routes unless I just take a weekend golf or football trip back to Durham. Stuff like that sometimes feels like the road system giving you the middle finger!
I have THIRTEEN one-county islands (e.g., I've visited every county that surrounds the one in question, but not the one on the inside) on the county-clinched map.
And they're all over the place: 1 in Washington, 1 in California, 1 in Colorado, 3 in Kentucky, 2 in Illinois, 1 in South Carolina, 1 in Delaware, 1 in Virginia and 2 in Pennsylvania.
The fairly large number is a by-product of me not "counting counties" for the first 90% of my life. Now they do sort of tease me :nod:
Quote from: keithvh on September 30, 2014, 03:28:33 PM
I have THIRTEEN one-county islands (e.g., I've visited every county that surrounds the one in question, but not the one on the inside) on the county-clinched map.
And they're all over the place: 1 in Washington, 1 in California, 1 in Colorado, 3 in Kentucky, 2 in Illinois, 1 in South Carolina, 1 in Delaware, 1 in Virginia and 2 in Pennsylvania.
The fairly large number is a by-product of me not "counting counties" for the first 90% of my life. Now they do sort of tease me :nod:
I call those donuts and they are quite nagging. :nod:
I-520 in Augusta is the only Interstate I haven't clinched in Georgia. I-575 in Fort Lauderdale is the only Interstate I haven't clinched in Florida. I'm only Indiana away from clinching I-65, and Ohio and Michigan away from clinching I-75. I've driven five non-contiguous segments of both I-40 and I-64, and three non-contiguous segments of I-10. I have never driven on I-90.
The only Interstate that I have yet to clinch in VA is I-381.
US 271 between Paris and Mt Pleasant.
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Quote from: keithvh on September 30, 2014, 03:28:33 PM
I have THIRTEEN one-county islands (e.g., I've visited every county that surrounds the one in question, but not the one on the inside) on the county-clinched map.
And they're all over the place: 1 in Washington, 1 in California, 1 in Colorado, 3 in Kentucky, 2 in Illinois, 1 in South Carolina, 1 in Delaware, 1 in Virginia and 2 in Pennsylvania.
The fairly large number is a by-product of me not "counting counties" for the first 90% of my life. Now they do sort of tease me :nod:
I call those donuts and they are quite nagging. :nod:
Heck, it happened to me with Guipuscoa province. I had visited every subdivision around it (3 Spanish provinces and a French department) for several years before I finally put my feet in it in 2011.
Anyway, I hadn't the opportunity to go beyond Teruel before 2006. By that time, large sections of A-23 were already finished, leaving me without 15 miles or so of the old N-234. I may end up missing part of the N-II for a long time, specifically the Bujaraloz-Fraga section (Pina-Bujaraloz may fall next year, after I had to abort an attempt to clinch it last week).
I-220, as well as the recently extended I-49, are all that's stopping me from having Louisiana's Interstates clinched - and I doubt I'll be back there anytime soon. Bleh.
I have a 0.24 mile section of OR 131 that I need to clinch. It's probably going to be a long time before I have a chance to clinch that section of highway, as we were not going to the Tillamook area for the past couple of summers.
I have almost entirely clinched I-185 in Georgia. The only part I haven't driven is 12 miles of I-185 from the US 80 interchange in Columbus south to I-185's southern terminus.
I think I created one of these last month up in Renton, WA. I pulled off I-405 for a pit stop and to discuss a vehicle issue with the fleet manager. It was the evening rush and it was raining on me while I was trying to look at crap under the hood. When I was ready to go I just wanted to get the hell out of dodge and didn't want to sit around waiting to make two different left turns to get back on 405 NB at the same exit I got off on, so I said screw it and scooted down to the next entrance ramp. The end result is I am now only 1/4 mile or so from clinching 405 with no idea when I might return to the Emerald City.
The reference markers on New York's I-290. As far as New York is concerned, I-290 is NY 290I. The reference markers for most interstates reflect this. Yet, those on I-290 have either "I290" (somewhat excusable) or just plain "290" (completely wrong, NY 290 is well over 100 miles away.
Quote from: SSOWorld on February 23, 2014, 08:01:50 PM
- Alaska's distant boroughs and Hawaii's Kalawao County (the latter that has visiting restrictions)
- US-63 in NW Wisconsin. The lone US route left to clinch in the state - out of the way of most of my routes
Got the latter just recently :sombrero:
Quote from: SSOWorld on February 26, 2014, 07:14:50 PM
I believe I forgot a couple of these...
-I-55 between Joliet an Bloomington.
One county in Michigan UP.
Quote from: SSOWorld on February 26, 2014, 07:14:50 PM
I believe I forgot a couple of these...
-I-55 between Joliet an Bloomington.
One county in Michigan UP.
Got the former earlier this year
A couple roads that had long lengths closed will haunt me in Wisconsin's highway system since they're too far for a day trip.
I-95...I would say roughly about 250 miles or so. Basically between Westerly and the second-to-last exit in Connecticut, between Ft. Pierce and Ft. Lauderdale and between Dunn and Darlington. Not much relative to the entire length from Miami to Houlton. But enough.
It's not too far away, but DE 9 near New Castle is taunting me because a small part of it is closed due to some construction at the railroad crossing.
I also still need to clinch the western end of US 50 in western MD.
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I'm missing 5 miles of I-81 southbound in VA due to traffic being detoured because of a truck fire that closed the road. I have I-81 clinched, but I had plans to have every southbound mile driven. The next time I'm down in the area, I plan to clinch US 11, except for the five mile segment of it that I have and to complete my missing 5 miles of I-81.
The one that taunts me here in Nebraska is the fact that I have all of US 275 except for the part west of the road that used to be Business 275 in Norfolk. And I don't know if I will ever be that way again any time soon. Now that I think of it, I haven't been on the divided highway portion west of Hooper, either.
In Iowa, while I've clinched all of Iowa's interstates, I haven't actually driven I-380 north of downtown Cedar Rapids (except for the part that overlaps US 20). And that road is the wrong direction for anywhere I want to go ever.
In Illinois, I have driven on I-180 twice. And both times, I was going south on IL 29, thus leaving the curve in the road unclinched.
There are actually two things that taunt me:
1. When you think you've clinched all of a particular route, and then you find out that it's being extended to a new place. I-69, I-74 and now I-49 come to mind. At this point, our kids and grandkids have a better shot at clinching these newly-extended roads than we ever will.
2. Any unbuilt road, like I-494 in Chicago. Even after it was cancelled, I still drew its proposed route in newer atlases.
Quote from: Henry on November 17, 2014, 11:37:31 AM
When you think you've clinched all of a particular route, and then you find out that it's being extended to a new place.
This might be the case with me and ON 401. I think they're extending it to the border?
I also have some almost-clinches. ON 420 west of the QEW, the Gardiner Expwy east of the DVP, ON 427 north of York RR 7, ON 404 north of Mulock Dr in Newmarket (and even more so with the new 404 extension).
Quote from: Mapmikey on February 27, 2014, 09:06:43 AM
What taunts me most often in this hobby is my wife...makes fun of me.
I hear you. My wife gets carsick, so anything that isn't an interstate or nearly so is out of the question.
As for road segments that bother me. IL 43 south of I-80 taunts me. It's the last segment of highway I need for a clinch of Cook County, IL. I think another afternoon in Will County, IL could give me a clinch of the core portion of the Chicago metropolitan area. That is on my mind. IL 26 north of US 20 also bothers me. It's the only state highway north of US 20 in Illinois that I've not conquered.
Every time West Virginia opens a new segment of US 48, it taunts me.
I had clinched I-26...until it was extended to I-81. And now it's no longer clinched. It's the first interstate of any significance I had clinched too. :ded:
I-66 inside the beltway. I cannot take my truck there, yet i get loads through that area once in a while going to baltimore. And i rarely go down to DC even in a car.