Seems to me i'd feel a load safer in a buggy seat but solid envy. I WISH I had the guts to rip up the highways! I'll have to start making mental notes
about quiet, clear stretches of road. You know....without power poles and stuff. I would DEFINITELY make sure I had every camera I own rolling.
:wow: Looks like he is running 9" or 10" scooter tires.
Kind of strange that there are no power or phone lines. Only road I can think of where you can get away with something like that are stretches of
Rte. 380 between North Texas headed towards Soccoro, NM. Can go hours without seeing another vehicle and "fill up, last gas stop for nn miles" signs
really aren't kidding.
ATB,
Sam
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, does anyone?" - The Body by Stephen King
"Only road I can think of where you can get away with something like that are stretches of Rte. 380 between North Texas headed towards Soccoro, NM."
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT. YOU LIVE IN MASSACHUSETTS.
I have my doubts that you are even human.
WTF man.
Live in MA... not born and/or anchored here my whole life. Have a few years on the odometer and have lived in a few states. Strictly speaking... not
born on this continent. Raised by wolves, but weaned by snow leopards ;-)
I used to live north of Dallas. When I got first got there the lack of mountains started getting to me.
I got a new car on November 7th of that year, and a couple of days before Thanksgiving, I decided to head out. Didn't want to drive superslab, so I
looked for two-lane blacktop that would get me most of the way. Rte 380 was it. You can pick it up in Denton, which was just North of where I lived
and just keep going and going until it is time to head North.
The rode winds a lot, but takes you right through Roswell, NM and Capitan, NM (where Smokey the Bear was born and they now have a National Park).
I did take a "slight" detour to visit White Sands, cause I was in the "neighborhood." Lots of small towns, interesting diners and friendly people,
strung out along some very, very untravelled road. Hours of not seeing another car or human being, seriously steep mountain drop offs with almost no
shoulders, and dips and rises in the rode with no warning (oh the joys of lofting the front end of the car at 85 mph :o ).
A couple of years later I took the same road back on the way home from a circuit route that took me from Dallas -> San Antonio -> Big Bend ->
White Sands, NM -> Roswell, NM -> Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas panhandle.
Lots of impromptu, senseless road trips in my past....
Walked 20-25 miles to see a motorcycle.
Slogged through torrential rain from Northern NY to MA on Route 5/Route 9 on a motorcycle (hydroplaning on 2 wheel... :o). What should have
been a few hours turned into a 12 hour oddyssey due to localized flooding and rerouting.
Bicycled from Syracuse to Ithaca and back on backroads in 2 days to visit a bird.
Drove 160 miles, leaving at 3 or 4 in the morning, so I could have a sunrise breakfast in Lake George the day after Christmas.
Used to make regular trips between NJ/NY and the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA. Basically 3 hours out, catch dinner and the show and
3 hours back, maybe 2 hours to sleep and get up and go to work.
ATB,
Sam
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, does anyone?" - The Body by Stephen King
Of all the places I've been to though, he would be correct in saying that area is completely empty and devoid of roadside obstacles for miles. It's
the most empty stretch of road I've ever been on. Maybe the most open stretch in the country, unless there's a longer road like that through the
mid/north-west... Nevada and such.
I've never been out that way; I know this is getting way off-topic. But I've always wanted to go down an empty road like that through Nowhere, USA
just to see what I could find. Wouldn't that be fun to kite down Route 50? :P
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