Don, I actually kinda enjoy the drive from Austin to Battle Mountain. At least there are a few grades, turns, and vegetation. And the best darned Basco chorizo sausage in the world comes from the little store in BM. I think BM is on I-80, BTW, which is a pretty darned boring road through that area, too. Karl Wolz
| So I recently re-traced one of our courses...Austin, on highway 50 up to |Battle Mountain on I-70...about 100 miles, more or less It took us about |2.5 hrs in my Vanagon. We ran that course (The Pony Express Open Road |Race) in my 90 GT 928 Porsche in the Supersport class with a target speed |of |165mph and that meant our target time for the same course was about 36 |minutes....A lot more fun at that speed and I don't think I missed any |'scenery' even though at that speed you only have about 20-odd seconds to |see each mile ... | | But in the Van, I just endure the boring parts of the drive and travel at |65 or so. I always attempt to find alternate routes. The trouble is |there |aren't enough alternatives up and down the west coast or east/west across |the western deserts...been over them all dozens of times. I choose 395 |when |weather permits...but it's still boring south of Bishop...I need Scotty to |beam me down from Bishop to La Paz...me and my van.. | Don Hanson |
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