My son and his friend just got back from a road trip. They took route 80 from California to New York and back again. He’s 23, and has never been out of state before.
He says they had a wonderful time, particularly in New York and Boulder, Colorado. He mentioned how beautiful many of the states were that they passed through. He admired your interesting architecture and old bridges. He liked Massachusetts. He said there was wonderful food everywhere he went. He liked White Castle sliders, and deep dish pizza in Boston.
They were supposed to be gone for two weeks, but ended up taking almost a month. It sounds like they had an awesome time. So thank you, people of New York, Boulder and points in between for showing these guys a good time.
I would also like to thank a certain cop in Indiana for letting them go.
Cool beans! Glad he had fun here! However, unless there’s a different Route 80 from the one I know (east Texas to Georgia), it seems like he didn’t touch on it all.
IMHO Rte 80 in PA and Ohio are pretty dull, drab and boring; the travel equivalent of Chartered Accountancy – sorry I had to slip in a Monty Python reference – but in New York and quite a few other states it can be a really beautiful ride. Glad he had fun with it!
Too bad they weren’t on Kentucky Route 80, the longest east-west numbered highway in the state, which used to lead onto a ferry across the Mississippi River. Very scenic all the way.
I grant you permission to say thanks to Indiana for apparently having a nice policeman.
But there is no way to forgive a state that has a White Castle on every corner.
Replying to this and to kopek as best I and Facebook can remember:
I started on the 10 headed east out of Los Angeles, and hit CA, AZ, NM, TX, OK, TN, AR MO, IL, IN, KY, OH, WV, PA, NJ, NY, CT, and MA.
The idea was to see as many major league games in as many cities as I could, and to sightsee/chill/meet as many people as possible as well.
So really, I just drove a couple hundred miles to the next major metro area and waited for the home team to be in town (some planning was involved, too).
Definite highlights of the trip were:
-a night game (minor-league)/bar-hopping in Albuquerque (they shut the main street down at night and it’s like a big street fair);
-the meteor crater (thing is HUGE);
-the fans in St. Louis; and
-getting up on stage and singing some blues on the Monday after Elvis Weekend in Memphis.
There’s at least one cool spot on I-80 in PA. The Emlenton Bridge, which crosses 270 feet above the Allegheny River (highest road bridge in Pennsylvania).
This section of the Allegheny is my favorite to kayak. We’ve passed under 80 dozens of times. My first bald eagle sighting was near there.
Only a short section where they bottleneck at that notorious spot where Illinois and Indiana refuse to build roads leading to each other. With most lanes continuously blocked by orange cones, he Indiana-Illinois border is harder to get across than India-Pakistan.
Interstate 80 is pretty scenic through PA. I-80 doesn’t even go into NY. Do you mean something else by “Rte 80”?