Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 18:09:07 -0800
Reply-To: Todd Last <Rubatoguy@IBM.NET>
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From: Todd Last <Rubatoguy@IBM.NET>
Subject: Re: which route to CA?(long)
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Personally, I'd go US 50, or hook up and travel via old route 66.
Check out the following book, it has a great list of cross-country trips
and hilites all the places to stop on the way:
ROAD TRIP USA: Cross-country adventures on America's two-lane highways.
By Jamie Jensen ISBN: 1-56691-036-6
Published by Moon travel handbooks $22.50
I used this on a trip following route 66 from CA to KS this summer - it was
great!
At 10:52 PM 10/29/97 -0500, Sudhir Desai wrote:
>fellow listees,
>need your opinion on which route to take to CA
>
>
>here is the route i plan to take this summer to go to San Diego.
>there are 2 ways to go from Germantown, so i will list them according to
>preference(first is first).
>
>Catonsville, MD to Germantown, TN
>Catonsville, MD 95 south 0 miles
>Wash. D.C. 495 west 35 miles
>-- VA -- 66 west
>Front Royal, VA Skyline Dr. 90 miles
>Waynesboro, VA Blue Ridge Pkwy. 199 miles
>-- NC -- BRPkwy. 412 miles
>Asheville, NC 40 west 552 miles
>-- TN -- 40 west 598 miles
>Germantown, TN 1025 miles
>
>
>Germantown, TN to San Diego via 50 and 1
>Germantown, TN 55 N/W 0 miles
>-- Arkansas -- 55 north 8 miles
>-- Missouri -- 55 north 83 miles
>St. Louis, MO 50 west 282 miles
>-- Kansas -- 50/35 west 537 miles
>Emporia, KA 50 west
>-- Colorado -- 50 west 1013 miles
>Grand Jnctn, CO 50/70 west 1458 miles
>-- Utah -- 50/70 west 1483 miles
>Salina, UT 50 west 1668 miles
>Delta, UT 6/60 west
>-- Nevada -- 6/60 west 1825 miles
>Ely, NV 50 west 1889 miles
>-- California --50 west 2236 miles
>Sacramento, CA 80 W/S 2343 miles
>SanFrancisco,CA 280 south 2439 miles
>Daly City, CA 1 south 2449 miles
>San Diego, CA ----------------- 2983 miles
>Germantown to San Diego ------- 4023 miles
>
>------------- OR -------------------------
>
>Germantown, TN to San Diego via 66/40
>Germantown, TN 40 west 0 miles
>-- Arkansas -- 40 west 20 miles
>-- Oklahoma -- 40 west 309 miles
>-- Texas -- 40 west 644 miles
>-- N. Mexico -- 40 west 813 miles
>-- Arizona -- 40 west 1189 miles
>-- California --40 west 1550 miles
>Barstow, CA 15 S/W 1707 miles
>San Diego --------------------- 1883 miles
>Germantown to San Diego ------- 2923 miles
>
>
>the difference in times/distances is that the route 50 and 1 way will take
>an extra day or 2 for sightseeing purpoises along HWY-1, and acclimating
>to the realization that if your tire pops along HWY-1 southbound, you're
>dead...
>
>
>please tell me which route would you take if you had the chance to take
>either route?
>
>
>thanks in advance,
>Sudhir H. Desai 1984 VW Vanagon 3.4 liter Chevy V-6
>cdes@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu 1996 Subaru Outback 2.2 liter flat-4
>sudhir_desai@geocities.com 1997 Jeep Cherokee
>
>http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1889
>
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