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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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2gypsies1
Explorer III
Jul 19, 2016
JimFromJersey wrote:
Another point to possibly consider is support services - generally, gas, food, medical care, repairs, etc etc will be more concentrated along interstates, especially in the wide open spaces out west (notwithstanding that stretch of I-70 where you go 105 miles between exits...)


Keep in mind that people live along the secondary highways. All of those services are available and in smaller towns repairs are done a lot faster by friendlier folks.

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