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GizmosMom
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Jul 15, 2016

Interstates safer than "Blue Highways?"TRIP UPDATE

We are now retired and I have our summer trip to Colorado planned. We share the driving. I want to travel the back roads and blue highways. I want to take our time. The Interstates make me nervou...
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Belgique
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Jul 17, 2016
DutchmenSport wrote:
I've never heard the term "Blue Roads" before, must be a local term, kind of like the term "toboggan." In some locations it means a sled you ride on in the snow, in other locations, it means hat you wear on your head. I grew up with the "hat" definition, never knew it meant a sled until I was 24 years old!


So funny! First time my Mountain Girl wife talked about wearing a toboggan, I asked why you would wear a sled on your head? Will still joke about it all the time.

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