Clovis Chitwood Heavy Industries » roadtrip http://clovischitwood.com Breaking the EULA for life Wed, 26 May 2010 13:58:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Roadtrips http://clovischitwood.com/2008/07/14/roadtrips/ http://clovischitwood.com/2008/07/14/roadtrips/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:32:37 +0000 clovischitwood http://clovischitwood.com/?p=46 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I was going to go to bed but saw that I needed to run a load of laundry so I’m back. Yesterday there was a post at ar15.com asking how many states have you been to. Of course this kind of poll is probably heavily weighted because people who have no interest in travel probably aren’t even going to look at the post, but over thirty percent of the respondents had visited at least thirty states. One poster claimed to have spent at least three months in every state. Wow. It got me thinking the 48 state trip. I googled it and it appears that there are a couple of routes that are under seven thousand miles. One group that is under way currently is planning on doing it in 5 days on 135 gallons of diesel in a TDI Beetle. That’s fifty two miles to the gallon. I’m not that ambitious yet. For one I don’t think I know anybody crazy enough to try it with me, but I got to thinking about a trip that might be doable in a couple of days, and that I might actually be able to pull off solo. How long would it take me to visit every county in Tennessee. Maybe there’s a doc in there? Maybe a very boring doc. Anyway I guess it’s time to go play with Google maps for awhile. Or at least till the laundry gets done.

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Oregon
Montana
Idaho
Nevada
North Dakota
South Dakota
Iowa
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Alaska
Hawaii

Possible trips:

Ontario Oregon, 28 hours would also knock Idaho off the list
Malad City, Idaho 24 hours
Busby, Montana 22 hours would also knock South Dakota off the list
Elko, Nevada, 26 hours
Hankinson, North Dakota, 16 hours would also knock South Dakota off the list
Sioux City South Dakota, 13hours
Kennebunk, Maine 20 hours
Warwick, Rhode Island, 17 hours
Bennington, Vermont, 17 hours
Winchester, New Hampshire, 17 hours

Google maps couldn’t come up with any thing to get me from Nashville to Alaska or Hawaii

That’s all well and good but I’m leaning more to one of these:

Here’s a route that would allow me to knock Oregon, Montana, Idaho, North and South Dakota off the list, but it would take around forty hours going out there.

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Then I could do this to cross Nevada off the list coming back.

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Total driving time around 73 hours.

Something a bit more feasible would be this.

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It would be super easy to just swing down and hit Rhode Island on a little bit more direct route home. Total driving time would be around forty hours.

Something to think about on slow day.

Okay so that’s a bummer the maps don’t show the routes unless you click on the link.

Oh well what do I expect for free.

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