2025 Road Trip Plans

[webny99]

A relatively short road trip this weekend, but one I haven't done in quite a while: Rochester, NY to Cleveland, OH area and back.

[ElishaGOtis]

I'm going to clinch I-10 this summer (and with a very slight possibility of also clinching I-40), somehow. It'll be a while but I think I'll get through it. I've already gotten just over half of it cleared from previous trips (El Paso to points east, and the section between I-5 and I-15).

[D-Dey65]

My next trip will include a southern Polk County railroad photography crusade, and probably another round trip on SunRail, but this time it will be from Poinciana to Longwood and back.

The thing is though, one of the locations I'm looking for is Welcome Junction in Keysville, Florida, because it's the junction between the Plant City and Valrico Subdivisions. However, in order to actually capture the junction I need to either;
A)Try to sneak onto the tracks from the railroad crossing of an active railroad line.
B)Trudge through some swampland between East Keysville Road and the Valrico Subdivision with God only knows what hiding in the tall grass.
C)Blow a butt-load of money on a drone, and the FAA License to go with it, with the risk of losing control of the thing and never getting it back.

[pderocco]

My next trip will include a southern Polk County railroad photography crusade, and probably another round trip on SunRail, but this time it will be from Poinciana to Longwood and back.

The thing is though, one of the locations I'm looking for is Welcome Junction in Keysville, Florida, because it's the junction between the Plant City and Valrico Subdivisions. However, in order to actually capture the junction I need to either;
A)Try to sneak onto the tracks from the railroad crossing of an active railroad line.
B)Trudge through some swampland between East Keysville Road and the Valrico Subdivision with God only knows what hiding in the tall grass.
C)Blow a butt-load of money on a drone, and the FAA License to go with it, with the risk of losing control of the thing and never getting it back.

It might be nice if Google starting putting "street view" cameras on trains.

[JayhawkCO]

In addition to my NYC interstate clinching day before my Africa trip, I'll also be driving from Dulles to Providence on the back end to catch my flight back to Denver. My full routing will be somewhat dependent on day-of traffic and any potential flight delays, but I hope to at least clinch I-84 and all Connecticut "counties" at a minimum.

And because my trips to Africa seem to always have something weird happen to them, I won't be making either of these road trips. I managed to contract pneumonia and so can't do my Kilimanjaro climb next week. I managed to change my plans to later in the summer, but it won't allow for the road trips.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Damn. Feel better.

[JayhawkCO]

Damn. Feel better.

Thanks. It's a bit of a rough go honestly. Caught it despite being in arguably the best shape of my life right now, which also makes this more annoying since I can't keep doing my training runs until I get this all cleared.