Favorite way to skip the interstates?
I get lazy with my routing sometimes and rely too much on Google Maps and my in-dash nav. It’s easy enough to skip the interstates in an area you’re familiar with, but I’d be interested in hearing...
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Sorry I've been a ghost in my own thread.
I appreciate the responses (most of them) and the insights. ("Get a map and learn to use it" might be one of the most condescending things I've read here in ages. Lordy lord.)
I don't remember where I was when I posted this, but I had given myself a week or so to drive by car from Orlando to southern California. I've already made this trip a bunch of times this year (it's a long story), and I wanted to see more of our heartland and spend less time breaking the speed limits.
I ended up going north through GA, SC, NC, and into VA to catch the Blue Ridge Parkway for a while. Such a gorgeous drive.
After that I decided to keep using my nav, but to quit giving it major cities as destinations. I didn't have a copilot to help me navigate this time and didn't have the energy in the evenings to study the maps and make notes for myself, so I just kind of fooled my Google Maps app by feeding random rural towns into it as my destinations and making big ugly zig-zag sutures across the gash of the interstates.
This worked for me until I made it through TN, KY, IL, and MO (and hitting many of these states more than once along the way).
I finally pooped out in Kansas and jumped on I-70 across the plains until I hit Denver and crossed the Rockies into Utah. From there I-15 is a pleasant and familiar drive and I took it most of the way home until I couldn't deal with the nutty traffic anymore and switched back to the smaller highways.
It was a beautiful way to see a good slice of America without dealing with I-10 and I'd probably do it again.
We live in a beautiful place and I always feel sorry for the folks who don't get out to see it.
Thanks again for all of your input and sorry again to be the typical disappearing OP.
I appreciate the responses (most of them) and the insights. ("Get a map and learn to use it" might be one of the most condescending things I've read here in ages. Lordy lord.)
I don't remember where I was when I posted this, but I had given myself a week or so to drive by car from Orlando to southern California. I've already made this trip a bunch of times this year (it's a long story), and I wanted to see more of our heartland and spend less time breaking the speed limits.
I ended up going north through GA, SC, NC, and into VA to catch the Blue Ridge Parkway for a while. Such a gorgeous drive.
After that I decided to keep using my nav, but to quit giving it major cities as destinations. I didn't have a copilot to help me navigate this time and didn't have the energy in the evenings to study the maps and make notes for myself, so I just kind of fooled my Google Maps app by feeding random rural towns into it as my destinations and making big ugly zig-zag sutures across the gash of the interstates.
This worked for me until I made it through TN, KY, IL, and MO (and hitting many of these states more than once along the way).
I finally pooped out in Kansas and jumped on I-70 across the plains until I hit Denver and crossed the Rockies into Utah. From there I-15 is a pleasant and familiar drive and I took it most of the way home until I couldn't deal with the nutty traffic anymore and switched back to the smaller highways.
It was a beautiful way to see a good slice of America without dealing with I-10 and I'd probably do it again.
We live in a beautiful place and I always feel sorry for the folks who don't get out to see it.
Thanks again for all of your input and sorry again to be the typical disappearing OP.
