Things that taunt you...

[hbelkins]

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.

[hotdogPi]

MA 114 east of MA 107 (about 2 miles). I have everything west of MA 107.

[nexus73]

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

[Eth]

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.

[Alps]

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.

[1995hoo]

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.

[vdeane]

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.

[golden eagle]

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.

[pianocello]

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.

[jbnv]

Having a job and children.

[kurumi]

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)

[hbelkins]

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.

[sammi]

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.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

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.

[TheStranger]

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.

[oscar]

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).

[AsphaltPlanet]

Ontario Hwy 72... it's just so far away.

[SSOWorld]

- 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

[jp the roadgeek]

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.

[empirestate]

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.

[Pete from Boston]

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.

[bassoon1986]

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.

[Duke87]

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).

[SD Mapman]

The 50 feet between the US 53 south ramp on I-535 and its terminus. 50 freaking feet.

[Brandon]

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.