Byways, mostly: convince me to take the long way.

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I'm going to be hitting the road soonish, but I don't really want to be on the Interstate. Why should I take the long way?

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

because you don't want to be on the interstate.

where are you going?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Dunno, yet. Starting in MN, EVENTUALLY ending up in Chi (if I get this job I'm applying for). If I hook into my friends road trip then there's the possibility of making it Way Out West.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 16 June 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Intersate 94 always worked for me, but I never got off on the backroads any.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

When you take the back roads you see the little towns.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

and eat in the better restaurants, and (in the case of Way Out West at least) encounter far fewer other drivers. Driving through a long stretch of route 66 I think we passed one other car, headed in the opposite direction.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 16 June 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Let Roadfood be your guide.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Follow in the footsteps of Johnny Apple

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 16 June 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I love two lane roads. If you've got the time, go the long way home.

― andy --, Thursday, 16 June 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

hey, we just did this a couple of weeks back. we took a direct route, which you may not want, though. i'll can confirm with the map the road numbers if you'd like, but the road that follows the mississippi river on the MN side is bee-u-tee-ful. along the way there's supposed to be a great restaurant in pepin, mn, which we missed. from there we turned east through lacrosse and took 12 through wisconsin (which we picked up around madison, cuz traffic sucked). there were some larger 4 lane areas along the way, but it was much more fun than sitting in traffic (it was memorial day weekend). once you get towards chicago, all the roads turn strip mall bland, so not much you can do there...

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 17 June 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I thought this would be a gareth thread!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 17 June 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

but the road that follows the mississippi river on the MN side is bee-u-tee-ful.

I know! I live on it! (well, the St. Croix, at least)

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

ft. stockton, texas north on 285 (i think?) thru roswell up near albuquerque rules.

not that it's anywhere near minnesota, but i just thot i'd share.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

"Never ride the lonely road, above all at sundown, for dusk is when the little men melt into the mountain."

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Friday, 17 June 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

I have friends in Santa Fe! I may visit them!

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

take the torquoise trail, brody

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

I took a two lane hiway all the way across Kansas (No/So) on the way back from CO. Fanfuckingtastic. Having to actually navigate kept my wits about me and I didn't get all sleepy like I would have on the Interstate. It probably added 45 minutes-1hour to a 13 hour trip. No biggy. Plus, Kansas is HUGELY underrated scenery-wise, I think.

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 17 June 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

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