A Thread for Travel: Trips/Advice/Ideas

[alfablue]

Re: A Thread for Travel: Trips/Advice/Ideas

the phone works, but data is extremely expensive, if you can get a signal, which you might not. So using maps on your phone is maybe not the best idea.

Get a local company SIM card. We've been doing that with either a European phone (2005-2010, a few trips) or my new unlocked iPhone (last month). Just have to go to a company, tell them you want a pre-paid card and you are all set. With modern phones, they all have cards and plans for smart phones. We also got one for a iPad. You get a local number, but nice data access.

Not much effort- very worth it.

(we did "Normandy" back in 2007, and really loved it. Need to go back and see more)

[UNH GH]

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Year to date travel:

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It's been a fun year.

[St. Clown]

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Year to date travel:


It's been a fun year.

What's the difference between the red and yellow lines?

[UNH GH]

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Yellow's one flight, Red is 2, anything more gets progressively darker.

[FlagDUDE08]

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So I modified the 48 state trip that I had before, took the advice of someone who said get all the eastern states in on and although it's not the fastest way to get to all 48 states, I believe it's the fastest way to get to all 48 states + DC in a round trip. If you live anywhere along the blue line, well, you can do it. Cut out the one part at the Capitol Beltway if you don't want to count DC (it'll save probably an hour or so). http://goo.gl/maps/4mwib

[FlagDUDE08]

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So, Michigan wants to up their speed limit. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/08/...d-you-want-it/

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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So, Michigan wants to up their speed limit. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/08/...d-you-want-it/

While I like the idea in theory, I tend to agree that many people already do 5-10 over the limit anyway. When it's 70, we do 75-80. So if you make it 80, we'll be doing 85-90, and the nutjobs will be weaving in and out of traffic at 100+.

Personally, I would only support I-75 being 80 MPH north of the US-23 junction at Standish. Anything south of that carries way too much traffic on Friday and Sunday evenings (weekenders going up north and coming home). And I-94 should not be 80 until you get out past Ann Arbor, towards Chelsea.

[bigblue_dl]

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It looks like Wisconsin may finally be ready to be rid of the idiocy of 65mph speed limits. http://www.twincities.com/localnews/...nterstates-hwy

[RaceBoarder]

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While I like the idea in theory, I tend to agree that many people already do 5-10 over the limit anyway. When it's 70, we do 75-80. So if you make it 80, we'll be doing 85-90, and the nutjobs will be weaving in and out of traffic at 100+.

Personally, I would only support I-75 being 80 MPH north of the US-23 junction at Standish. Anything south of that carries way too much traffic on Friday and Sunday evenings (weekenders going up north and coming home). And I-94 should not be 80 until you get out past Ann Arbor, towards Chelsea.

There is the theory that you raise the speedlimit to 80, but then enforce it... And I'm talking HARD enforcement to start out... Give 5mph, but that's it... Establish that there is a limit...

Yea, people will *****... But at the same time, there is NO reason to be doing 90mph on a public roadway...

[goldy_331]

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Yea, people will *****... But at the same time, there is NO reason to be doing 90mph on a public roadway...

Sure there is. To get through that ****hole of a state.

Especially applies to Iowa and Nebraska.

[bigblue_dl]

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Yea, people will *****... But at the same time, there is NO reason to be doing 90mph on a public roadway...

The ONLY reason NOT to do 90 on a public roadway is the risk of getting pulled over.

[hockeyplayer1015]

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The ONLY reason NOT to do 90 on a public roadway is the risk of getting pulled over.

The way I see it, I'd rather have the idiots on the road in my rearview mirror, as opposed to in front of me.

[FlagDUDE08]

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While I like the idea in theory, I tend to agree that many people already do 5-10 over the limit anyway. When it's 70, we do 75-80. So if you make it 80, we'll be doing 85-90, and the nutjobs will be weaving in and out of traffic at 100+.

Personally, I would only support I-75 being 80 MPH north of the US-23 junction at Standish. Anything south of that carries way too much traffic on Friday and Sunday evenings (weekenders going up north and coming home). And I-94 should not be 80 until you get out past Ann Arbor, towards Chelsea.

This premise is completely untrue and unfounded. Along the 85 MPH corridor in Texas, the 85th percentile speed is around 75. When they raised the speed along the Thruway from 55 to 65, the 85th percentile went from 64 to 68, NOT 74.

[FlagDUDE08]

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It looks like Wisconsin may finally be ready to be rid of the idiocy of 65mph speed limits. http://www.twincities.com/localnews/...nterstates-hwy

It's stuck in the state Senate right now, and they're thinking Walker would veto it.

[alfablue]

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While I like the idea in theory, I tend to agree that many people already do 5-10 over the limit anyway. When it's 70, we do 75-80. So if you make it 80, we'll be doing 85-90, and the nutjobs will be weaving in and out of traffic at 100+.

Personally, I would only support I-75 being 80 MPH north of the US-23 junction at Standish. Anything south of that carries way too much traffic on Friday and Sunday evenings (weekenders going up north and coming home). And I-94 should not be 80 until you get out past Ann Arbor, towards Chelsea.

I agree about the area for 75/23, but not I94- there is WAAAAY too much truck traffic that would make it reasonable to have cars doing 80 and trucks doing what they do. It's hard enough to do 70 with the truck traffic and not change speeds all the time- I can't imagine what it would be like at 80. Maybe 96 from Brighton west, since it seems as if they have a lot fewer trucks. But unless they move 70% of the trucks to the rail that runs along side, 94 would be a mess much faster than it is now. Remember, Michigan is one of the few states that allow higher axle limits on trucks, so it would be pretty hard for them to actually speed up and stay that way. And if the limits are lowered to speed them up, the number of trucks will double- which would make traffic much, much worse.

None the less, it's interesting to consider speed/time. It's ~275 miles to Mackinaw City from here in AA- at 70mph, it should take just under 4 hours, whereas at 80, it's just under 3:30. So you save all of a half an hour IF you can take the entire lenght 10 MPH faster- which, of course, is unrealsitic. Not much time saved. If you add the 45 miles to the border, it is the longest length of freeway not around Detroit (which would limit the speed), and you save all of 30-40 min IF the whole span could be done that fast. Kinda pointless. Better to soften the enforcement- let the impaitent waste their fuel.