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07-09-2017, 10:21 PM | #1 | ||
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July 10th, 2017: Park to Park
A hundred years ago Flying was for wealthy daredevils, roads were mostly suited for critter drawn wagons,
and ships only good for port to port. Anyone wanting to travel were at the mercy of the Railroad Barons. The US had established some kickass National Parks, but tough to get to most of them. The American Automobile Association, founded in 1902 catering to the rapid growth of cars, championing improved, at least passable in most weather, roads between cities and towns. The NPS and AAA came up with a plan called The National Park to Park Highway. Catchy huh? But still 5600 miles of bad road. Of course every campaign needs a publicity stunt to grab the public’s attention and in this case to have the public pressure the politicians for better roads. Quote:
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Today the roads are pretty good, so good in fact they’re jammed with tourists and vacationers so progress isn’t that much faster, and in summer some parks are impossible without reservations. If we only had flying cars the death toll would eliminate a lot of traffic. link
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07-16-2017, 03:07 AM | #2 |
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Love your logic Bruce. That would indeed be an epic trip. Especially in those cars! Yellowstone sure is a big'un. |
07-18-2017, 08:17 AM | #3 |
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Yellowstone is currently also apparently feeling grouchy. I've heard speculation that the 5.8 earthquake epicentered near Lincoln, MT a couple of weeks ago (just about right on top of one of the gem & mineral club's favorite collecting sites, which we'd already visited this year) may have been caused or worsened by something geological going on under Yellowstone.
Damn quake shook me outta bed. It's 45-50 miles from my front door north to connect to Interstate 90. When we leave Missoula we use exits 101 for westbound and 104 for eastbound. The exit for Lincoln is 30 miles east of Missoula. My neighbor was trying to figure out what the hell was going on when I stumbled out of bed and reminded him that this is my SIXTH quake of magnitude 5 or greater (so far 4 in WA, 1 in OR, and this 1 in MT) so I know whereof I speak when I say "Yep, earthquake!" |
07-21-2017, 02:47 AM | #4 |
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Snake; I thought about that but saw it was quite a ways from YS and decided it wasn't. Interesting.
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