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Grand Western Loop - ideas?
"Dan Stephenson" wrote in message news:2012042718295491481-stephedanospam@maccom... I like beauty drives, fun drives, mountains and lakes. Have you encountered some place along this general path, that was pecularly regrettable? Such as someplace usually dangerous or otherwise a place to avoid? Looks like THIS was a spot to avoid: http://web.mac.com/stepheda/Western_...y_2012.html#19 |
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Grand Western Loop - ideas?
http://web.mac.com/stepheda/Western_..._May_2012.html
Index on top shows: Day 16, 31 May 2012 when I click it Text/photos show: Day 16, 27 May 2012 - 4365 trip miles (47096 miles total) same for other dates . not knocking it - just an FYI. Enjoying the trip so far. "Dan Stephenson" wrote in message news:2012042718295491481-stephedanospam@maccom... At some point I intend to make a grand western loop road trip. A length scenic drive. I have the scenic driving books for California, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, but ask if there is some particularly spectacular place I should definitely see along my route? I'm driving generally westward along I-10 to Los Angeles, north along the Pacific Coast Highway to the Olympic Penninsula of Washing State, east across the North Cascades National Park and on into Montana and Glacier National Park, then south through Wyoming and Yellowstone / Grand Teton, then south through Colorado (which I've visited quite a bit already). I like beauty drives, fun drives, mountains and lakes. Have you encountered some place along this general path, that was pecularly regrettable? Such as someplace usually dangerous or otherwise a place to avoid? Thanks, please post! -- Dan Stephenson http://web.mac.com/stepheda Travel pages for Europe and the U.S.A. (and New Zealand too) |
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Grand Western Loop - ideas?
On 2012-06-18 17:27:44 -0500, - Bobb - said:
"Dan Stephenson" wrote in message news:2012042718295491481-stephedanospam@maccom... I like beauty drives, fun drives, mountains and lakes. Have you encountered some place along this general path, that was pecularly regrettable? Such as someplace usually dangerous or otherwise a place to avoid? Looks like THIS was a spot to avoid: http://web.mac.com/stepheda/Western_...y_2012.html#19 Heh that is true. This was the drove north out of Santa Cruz. I also drove through Seattle at rush hour (sigh) to go to Edmonds to see if Rick Steves was at his shop for a visit and a thank-you (he wasn't). I was able to avoid bad Los Angeles traffic. The drove over the Mojave Desert was unpleasant, but unavoidable to reach the Pacific Coast Highway from Las Vegas. Another unavoidable and most miserable drove was driving home from Amarillo on highway 287. A bunch of nother, interspersed with small towns and speed traps. Before the town of Electra was a huge billboard: "WARNING ELECTRA IS A SPEED TRAP" or something to that effect. I generally did not encouter seedy areas, fortunately. -- Dan Stephenson http://web.mac.com/stepheda Travel pages for Europe and the U.S.A. (and New Zealand too) |
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Grand Western Loop - ideas?
On 2012-06-18 17:32:39 -0500, - Bobb - said:
http://web.mac.com/stepheda/Western_..._May_2012.html Index on top shows: Day 16, 31 May 2012 when I click it Text/photos show: Day 16, 27 May 2012 - 4365 trip miles (47096 miles total) same for other dates . not knocking it - just an FYI. Enjoying the trip so far. Thanks Sometimes I would copy and paste text from an old day, and change the data, in order to maintain a consistent format. Looks like I need to update the text. .... ok, done One, uh, word to the wise for anyone else contemplating a trip like this. Consider how much coffee or water you are drinking, and how desolate the place you may be driving through. And when you fill up gas, don't actually fill up, leave a little to give yourself an excuse to stop at a gas station and use their facilities as a paying customer. Just saying. "Dan Stephenson" wrote in message news:2012042718295491481-stephedanospam@maccom... At some point I intend to make a grand western loop road trip. A length scenic drive. I have the scenic driving books for California, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, but ask if there is some particularly spectacular place I should definitely see along my route? I'm driving generally westward along I-10 to Los Angeles, north along the Pacific Coast Highway to the Olympic Penninsula of Washing State, east across the North Cascades National Park and on into Montana and Glacier National Park, then south through Wyoming and Yellowstone / Grand Teton, then south through Colorado (which I've visited quite a bit already). I like beauty drives, fun drives, mountains and lakes. Have you encountered some place along this general path, that was pecularly regrettable? Such as someplace usually dangerous or otherwise a place to avoid? Thanks, please post! -- Dan Stephenson http://web.mac.com/stepheda Travel pages for Europe and the U.S.A. (and New Zealand too) -- Dan Stephenson http://web.mac.com/stepheda Travel pages for Europe and the U.S.A. (and New Zealand too) |
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