I’m in the Orange Menace
I’m leaving Texarkana, Ark.
I’m pretty sure I can find Texarkana, Tx.
A Doper, any Doper west of there, tell me how to get to where you are.
(This is a game, I’m not really coming to your house :eek:)
You can fake me out, if you dare.
One rule…I’m always going west!
I need Town names, highway numbers, exciting roadside attractions.
Yay! Road trip!!
Pack the cornuts and beef jerky! Bring good tunes!
(Oops, maybe this should be in threadgames, sorry, Mods)
Ok, didn’t mean to hit the submit yet but oh well.
So, the route I’d take during the warm or no snow months would be due west on US 85 to Gainesville, from there north on I35 to Salina KS west on I70 to Denver. Here you can be adventurous and go directly over the rockies on 70 or you can go north on I76 bypassing Denver proper until you reach I25 which will take you north to Cheyenne WY. There you turn west onto I80 (and incidentally cross the rockies through a lower gentler pass). Stay on I80 until you reach the junction with I84, there, take I84 west toward Ogden UT, call me when you reach the TA Travel Center in Boise, I’ll either come get you or talk you in from there.
Unless you are a serious hardcore driving traveler, should take no less than 3 or 4 days
Better is I-70 west from Denver. I-80 is boring but I-70 takes you through the beautiful Glenwood Canyon, after going through the Eisenhower Tunnels up over Loveland Pass — the highest point of the interstate highway system, and one of the highest tunnels around.
I know a software engineer who named his daughter Xyzzy, pronounced “Zie-zee” (/'zaɪzi/). He was British and for a long time I assumed it was some British name or nickname. Then I saw it spelled out and realized what he’d done to the poor kid.
Head north until you hit I-40, then take I-40 west all the way to Barstow, CA, where it merges with I-15. Stay on I-15 for a few miles through Barstow, then take CA Hwy 58 west to Bakersfield. In Bakersfield, CA 58 and CA 99 are the same road for a short distance, and here you have two options. If you prefer Interstates follow 58 west to I-5, then take I-5 north to Sacramento. Or you can stick with Hwy 99 north. On I-5 your scenery will be farmland pretty much the whole way, but it’s probably a bit faster. 99 passes through more populated areas, like Fresno, Merced, and Modesto. Either way, you’ll eventually get to US 50 in Sacramento. Take 50 east and hope you don’t get there during rush hour. In about 20 miles you’ll be in my general vicinity. I pretty much described the exact route I took when I moved from North Carolina to California 15 years ago (taking the I-5 option).
Some highlights/attractions along this route:
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[li]Lots of historic Route 66 places from Texas on, since I-40 pretty much follows the old Route 66 routing much of the way.[/li][li]In Arizona you can visit the Petrified Forest. It’s right off the Interstate.[/li][li]Just west of there in Holbrook, eat at Joe and Aggie’s cafe. I remember having some really good food there on a family road trip when I was 16 while we were waiting for our van to have its fuel pump replaced at a shop nearby. At the time we didn’t know it was somewhat famous (or maybe it wasn’t in the pre-internet days); it was just a restaurant that was walking distance from where we were.[/li][li]Also in Holbrook, stay in the famous Wigwam Motel[/li][li]Of course if you want you can take a little detour up to the Grand Canyon from Flagstaff.[/li][li]On CA 58 west of Barstow you’ll pass through the little town of Hinkley, where the events portrayed in the film Erin Brockovich took place, not that there’s much to see there.[/li][li]If you choose the I-5 route, your drive on CA 58 from Bakersfield to I-5 will smell like oranges this time of year, as they’re actually in season and being harvested during the winter. [/li]If you’re a Johnny Cash fan, visit the Folsom Prison Museum when you get here.[/ul]
Aww, you missed me. If you’re in OKC, I’m now South of you (I35 S, take the Fort Worth branch, and then you have to take 820 going East until you get to Bedford, which is only a few miles, but you won’t do that, because you’re heading west, young man)