Roadgeek as a non-driver

[Evillangbuildsmc]

I'm an autistic adult that has a special interest in roads and freeways since I was a kid, which means that I'm a lifelong roadgeek. I don't drive. I wonder if other non-drivers have the same thing.

[LilianaUwU]

I haven't ever driven a car in my life either. I plan on changing that, though.

[Scott5114]

There are sort of two branches of roadgeeking—the "armchair" kind you can do from home, vs. actually getting to experience the roads yourself. The problem is that a lot of the joys of the latter are not things one can easily experience without having someone else who is into roads as a driver. (For example, in my home state of Nevada there are a lot of state routes that are spurs to tiny mining communities and the like—there is no plausible excuse for visiting one of those that might convince a normal person to humor you.)

While there is a lot of fun to be had in the armchair stuff, there are a lot of experiences where just seeing it on Google Maps really does not do it justice (the Virgin River Gorge, for instance, or NV-28).

[WillWeaverRVA]

I'm an autistic adult that has a special interest in roads and freeways since I was a kid, which means that I'm a lifelong roadgeek. I don't drive. I wonder if other non-drivers have the same thing.

I've been interested in roads and signs since long before I ever started driving. I started collecting maps when I was in elementary school.

[hotdogPi]

I don't drive either, but I'm able to take public transit places, plus I keep track of where I've walked (over 700 miles of unique roads).

[Max Rockatansky]

Never hurts to have a serious deep look into the history of highway corridors.  There is always something waiting to be unearthed even with name brand Sign Routes.  A recent example from the Northwest board:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=36384.0

[stormwatch7721]

I can't drive because of my cerebral palsy and I like the big green signs on the highways

[bandit957]

I'm 52, and my overall health and particularly my reflexes have gotten so bad that I can't do it now.

The good news is that it stopped getting worse when I had my heart surgery. But it's probably too late to start a new career, since it's so hard to adjust at 52.

Now I only have to take one nap in the middle of the day instead of 5 or 6 like I did before. I was probably in the late stages of heart failure.