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A goose near the monument that my daughter photographed (this is not zoomed.... she was within a foot of the poor thing, and it was seriously contemplating diving off that concrete edge!):
The weather got better after this picture. Not sure if this is Duck Lake or Green Lake.
Really happy with how it ran. We did drive on I-90 across NY, which is flatter than I-80 across PA.
It's rated @26 on the highway and according to the computer, we did a little better than that.
Power is there too, I only remember it downshifting a couple of times. It has the second generation 2.3 ecoboost.
Still coming to terms with the seats and the nav could be single minded once you chose a destination.
My wife's sister with an SRX was jealous, although she tried not to show it.
My SIL with the SRX was jealous, she mentioned looking for something else after her lease is up.
Traffic was like this on too much of the trip down:
Small town, almost no traffic, affordable houses, but not enough jobs to pay the mortgage:
This morning a fire in the median slowed SB I-5 traffic a bit:
Beautiful skies, easy traffic:
You can see Mt. Rainier at right - bright skies made it difficult to see in other shots:
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And I can say I was going 109
The MIL's SO kept a sailboat on Lake Tahoe and drug it all the way back to the UP when they moved, but never put it in Lake Superior. Why they left Carson City in the first place still mystifies us (they were from there but still...).
Stever, did they still have close friends or relatives in the UP? Many retirees end up moving back to where they came from because of that I think
The MIL's brother had been a surveyor and subdivided some lots along the lake and told her she should buy one so she'd always have her roots. So she did and after sitting on this lot for ~40 years she had the high school build her a house, using the same plans she used to build her house in Carson City, minus the basement. Everything got moved and all the art got rehung in the same place.
And so we got stuck there (otherwise Boise was an 8 hour drive so we may have stayed there). But it was kind of fun in some ways and we were ready for a change.
When we moved from Alaska in 2000, my wife suggested we buy a lot close to Anchor Point near the end of the Kenai down by Homer. Lovely area, but I didn't want to be saddled with a lot that we'd likely rarely visit so I convinced her not to go for it. Actually we had "homesteaded" 5 acres in the boonies in the 80s on a lark and barely got in to camp on that lot once in 5 or 8 years, having tried to ski in two other times and failed. We never proved up on that one and none of the "neighbors" did either.
Anyway, literally three weeks after we moved from Anchorage, I stumbled on an article online where someone was complaining about a gravel pit being built -- on the lot adjacent to the one near Anchor Point that we were considering. No zoning out in the boonies.
Is it always sunny there?
Whatever happened to the inconsiderate driver thread? The distracted, slow, and inept are out in force in the heat wave right now, and a road trip might prove irritating to those who dare to take driving as serious business.
In Indianapolis, Indiana:
Have fun on that trip. I think that's an issue a few people are going to have - they won't want to give the cars up when the time comes. Diesel can be pretty endearing.
What is your intended route?
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My brother called from the MS headwaters park in MN last night - they are heading for Custer.
In other news, this is why you want a garage in the high desert, otherwise the kangaroo rats will be nesting under your hood and shredding your wiring for nesting material.
The beautiful hills of Saskatchewan on Monday (8/15):
Eastern Alberta (Monday afternoon):
The Alaska Highway in the Rocky Mountains north of Fort Nelson (Tuesday):
Roadside wood bison (Tuesday):
The sign forest in Watson Lake, Yukon Territory (Tuesday afternoon):
The unbelievably huge and gorgeous sky of the Yukon Territory (Tuesday afternoon):
Teslin Lake at dusk on Tuesday night:
Moon over Teslin Lake early Wednesday morning:
Elk west of Whitehorse, YT, at late dawn Wednesday morning:
Overlooking the Donjek River Valley, in far western Yukon Territory (about a hundred miles from the Alaska border) toward the south:
How was the road? Did you get any window dings?
PS
Great pictures bring back memories of my trips on that highway.
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The road is all paved (at least chip seal, which is basically just aggregated gravel) except for the construction zones. But, there were many areas with fresh chip seal on it, and those sections are like gravel, except the gravel is made up of large (many dime-sized) rounded stones that really like to fly until the road crews sweep those areas (if they do at all). So, I was pretty wary of timing those sections to avoid oncoming traffic, or slowing dramatically when there was oncoming traffic in order to avoid throwing (and hopefully receiving) rocks.
The mosquitoes really weren't bad. I even took a few walks while waiting at construction zones and didn't encounter too much hazing by them.
I think the most challenging part of the trip was the 600+ miles between fueling stops, as the windshield was downright loaded with bug splats from North Dakota through Grand Prairie, and a few times it became challenging to see through it in the evenings. I had to stop twice to de-bug.
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With so much driving at work on gravel as well as several trips down and back on the AlCan, I found the above method the best.
Crater Lake is one of my favorite spots in Oregon. I love a good road trip.
I witnessed (and participated in) a similar sight on I-94 as I was heading home a few weeks ago. The backup was, thankfully, not fifteen miles! But, it was at least five, and seeing a queue of vehicles that long - completely stopped - is rather humbling.