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A Thread for Travel: Trips/Advice/Ideas

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My wife got a Garmin last fall and loves it.

We used it to find our hotel in Eau Claire during a weekend hockey tourney which was all fine and dandy until I tried to remember the exit or even road name that we were supposed to get off on during our numerous trips to and from the rink and restaurants. Had no idea.

I'm very much a locate by memory and sense of direction guy and the Garmin essentially made me blind.

I like to look at google satellite maps for directions which I often draw on a piece of paper (much like song lyrics, actually drawing/writing something cements it to memory) and I also look at the satellite image for visual cues/what to be looking for/noticing.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
My wife got a Garmin last fall and loves it.

We used it to find our hotel in Eau Claire during a weekend hockey tourney which was all fine and dandy until I tried to remember the exit or even road name that we were supposed to get off on during our numerous trips to and from the rink and restaurants. Had no idea.

I'm very much a locate by memory and sense of direction guy and the Garmin essentially made me blind.

I like to look at google satellite maps for directions which I often draw on a piece of paper (much like song lyrics, actually drawing/writing something cements it to memory) and I also look at the satellite image for visual cues/what to be looking for noticing.
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Your last paragraph is what I do as well. I'll write them out (while modifying Google Maps for personal optimization, such as avoiding toll roads), and then draw a small map for a city proper, simply because there may be other places where I'd like to go. Granted, I don't navigate by landmarks, as this is why roads have names and numbers. I've never seen a "Tim Hortons St" anywhere.

On my trip to St. Cloud and Lincoln, I had 3 small pieces of paper (both sides used), one with directions from Minneapolis to St. Cloud, one with a drawing of the village, one with directions from there to Nebraska using various ways (I ended up dipping into ND), one with directions to rinks at Omaha and Lincoln from I-80, one with corresponding maps, and then one with telephone numbers. Works best for me.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Your last paragraph is what I do as well. I'll write them out (while modifying Google Maps for personal optimization, such as avoiding toll roads), and then draw a small map for a city proper, simply because there may be other places where I'd like to go.
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Tax evader. :p


FlagDUDE08 said:
Granted, I don't navigate by landmarks, as this is why roads have names and numbers. I've never seen a "Tim Hortons St" anywhere.
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I can see a Tim Horton's from 3 blocks away as opposed to a street sign. Sometimes there aren't street signs. Ever been to Indiana? No ****ing signs anywhere which is reason #45 that it's a complete ****hole.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Tax evader. :p





I can see a Tim Horton's from 3 blocks away as opposed to a street sign. Sometimes there aren't street signs. Ever been to Indiana? No ****ing signs anywhere which is reason #45 that it's a complete ****hole.
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Seeing as how I had to go through Indiana to get to St. Cloud, then yes. And I saw plenty of signs. And it's not tax evasion if you're using roads that you're already paying for by means of fuel taxes. I prefer the term "cheapskate", by the way.
 
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95% of the time I don't use the navigation feature (my truck has the built-in satnav, with the 9 inch screen in the dash), but it is **** nice to have the map on there, so you can get an idea of what roads are coming up. The biggest reason I actually use the navigation is to have the estimated time of arrival, and to get traffic/construction notices along the route so I can detour if necessary, and not get stuck in traffic. Occasionally I use it to go somewhere I have never been before, and sometimes I type in an address to see which route is shorter.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Granted, I don't navigate by landmarks, as this is why roads have names and numbers.
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Really? You've never been on a dirt road before? or driven at night when the signs are out of headlight range?

"Turn left when you reach the barn with the lady painted on the side" is a lot more effective direction to my cousin's than "take one road with no posted sign for awhile until you reach another road with no posted sign."


When we first moved east, people would try to give us directions by saying "you know where the middle school used to be?" and we'd be a bit distracted by having to answer "no, we are new in town." A few weeks ago, I caught myself giving someone else directions with "remember where the 7-11 used to be before it closed?" and had to chuckle at myself.
 
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FreshFish said:
Really? You've never been on a dirt road before?

"Turn left when you reach the barn with the lady painted on the sign" is a lot more effective direction to my cousin's than "take one road with no posted sign for awhile until you reach another road with no posted sign."


When we first moved east, people would try to give us directions by saying "you know where the middle school used to be?" and we'd be a bit distracted by having to answer "no, we are new in town." A few weeks ago, I caught myself giving someone else directions with "remember where the 7-11 used to be before it closed?" and had to chuckle at myself.
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I used to take a dirt road to get to the interstate all the time where I grew up. I grew up in a town where they still say that all the time. I see nothing wrong with the questions you were asked.
 
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Even with street signs (which you can't see at night, because no streetlights), I know my way to bbdl's place using landmarks/etc. After leaving the main road, go past the big church, and turn right, after the first big curve in the road, but before the second. Then turn right at the next stop sign. :D

And my brother's old place in the (former) outskirts of St Michael, well, that was after the blue barn a ways, you'll see a streetlight. Turn left there.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
I can see a Tim Horton's from 3 blocks away as opposed to a street sign. Sometimes there aren't street signs. Ever been to Indiana? No ****ing signs anywhere which is reason #45 that it's a complete ****hole.
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however, in certain Canadian towns, there are Tims on practically every corner.
 
FlagDUDE08 said:
Your last paragraph is what I do as well. I'll write them out (while modifying Google Maps for personal optimization, such as avoiding toll roads), and then draw a small map for a city proper, simply because there may be other places where I'd like to go. Granted, I don't navigate by landmarks, as this is why roads have names and numbers. I've never seen a "Tim Hortons St" anywhere.

On my trip to St. Cloud and Lincoln, I had 3 small pieces of paper (both sides used), one with directions from Minneapolis to St. Cloud, one with a drawing of the village, one with directions from there to Nebraska using various ways (I ended up dipping into ND), one with directions to rinks at Omaha and Lincoln from I-80, one with corresponding maps, and then one with telephone numbers. Works best for me.
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Who are you? Grasshopper?

Roaming the country with no particular timetable...I confess I have not reached that level of consciousness and occasionally need to get to new places in the shortest amount of time.

Good news is neither one of us will ever be the reason the other one is late.

;-)
 
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jmh said:
All 48 contiguous states?
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That's right. Although, 48in96 does it faster. We both use one common terminus in White River Junction VT, but their other terminus is the Montana/Idaho border. Theirs is 20 hours faster, but they won't release a route because they take their world record attempts incredibly seriously.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
That's right. Although, 48in96 does it faster. We both use one common terminus in White River Junction VT, but their other terminus is the Montana/Idaho border. Theirs is 20 hours faster, but they won't release a route because they take their world record attempts incredibly seriously.
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Hmm. Well, off the cuff (and forgive me for idly speculating as a novice when you've probably put a lot of thought into this), it seems like you could capture a lot of the Southeast if you went south from Maryland or West Virginia or Ohio, cutting through Eastern Kentucky, western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, then through SC/AL/GA/FL/AL/MI/LA/AR/MO the way your route does except in the opposite direction. Or, across LA to the TX border past Shreveport, north to AR/OK/KS/MO, then back to the Great Lakes to pick up those states. It seems like the route is lengthened significantly by having to do the Southeast last though.

Looking at it another way, it seems like there are certain stretches that are the best way to pick up certain groups of states (the stretch from White River Junction to Philly, the stretch from Chicago to the southeast corner of North Dakota) and maybe the challenge is figuring out the way to link those stretches together.
 
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jmh said:
Hmm. Well, off the cuff (and forgive me for idly speculating as a novice when you've probably put a lot of thought into this), it seems like you could capture a lot of the Southeast if you went south from Maryland or West Virginia or Ohio, cutting through Eastern Kentucky, western Virginia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina, then through SC/AL/GA/FL/AL/MI/LA/AR/MO the way your route does except in the opposite direction. Or, across LA to the TX border past Shreveport, north to AR/OK/KS/MO, then back to the Great Lakes to pick up those states. It seems like the route is lengthened significantly by having to do the Southeast last though.

Looking at it another way, it seems like there are certain stretches that are the best way to pick up certain groups of states (the stretch from White River Junction to Philly, the stretch from Chicago to the southeast corner of North Dakota) and maybe the challenge is figuring out the way to link those stretches together.
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I thought about it for maybe an hour, so by all means, go for it. The part with the most thought was New England. One thing that would also help the route is the roundabout at Four Corners, as there is a road that goes to it, and subsequently, through all four states. That way, I don't have to double-back to Utah or cut across Nebraska E-W to dip into Colorado. Perhaps I should use the village of Texarkana.

I'm glad you like the Chicago to North Dakota part. I used that on my trip to St. Cloud and wanted to take a side trip to visit a couple more states.

I did see a site about a guy who tried this, but he did round trip from western California, and he also did it in 1998, so he found out in Montana that his rental car was governed at 108 MPH.
 
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St. Clown said:
Do you only have to drive into/through the state? Are you looking to make a stop, get out of the car and do something in each state, be it small or large?
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The challenge is to, by road and vehicle, visit all 48 states. Spend as much or as little time in a state, and it must be one continuous road (i.e. no U-turns, although double-backing a road is OK). Also, I must start and stop at a legal parking space, even if it's a field with a driveway. Stopping in each state is not necessary.
 
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