MerlintheMad
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Back now: two days of ten plus hours out and reverse to get back home, heh. I am glad to report that I had no adventures, as in people scaring the crap out of me with their driving: I might have been the source of that sort of thing to more than one other driver, because I get impatient with the way people hog the left lane, and the instant I get an opening, Bam! it's kickdown switch time: I do a lot of passing fast, then slow back down to under ten over.
The pics: my car from my daughter's kitchen window (this is in Milwaukee), and from my hotel window; the lookout tower on Lapham peak, and one panorama shot in one direction, I think it's SW because of the radio tower, but they all look about the same: kind of boring but also pretty: the next pic is looking NE (those are not people I know). The last pic is a road that NAV took me on (I just follow directions, hah), and I thought that the combination of rolling ground, copious roadside flowers and patches of cloud shadow and sunlight made for an interesting shot.
This one is included to illustrate just how empty I-80 can get in the middle of Nebraska.
As I figured, each time I gassed up (except the last time), my MPG hovered near 24.5 to not quite 25 MPG. But the final leg from east of Evanston to Salt Lake City saw a surprising 31 MPG
(PS, my TPMS/psi screen came back to life returning from Lapham Peak, then died the next day c. two hours before my drive was done; then this morning *boink* it was back and still hasn't dropped again
)
The pics: my car from my daughter's kitchen window (this is in Milwaukee), and from my hotel window; the lookout tower on Lapham peak, and one panorama shot in one direction, I think it's SW because of the radio tower, but they all look about the same: kind of boring but also pretty: the next pic is looking NE (those are not people I know). The last pic is a road that NAV took me on (I just follow directions, hah), and I thought that the combination of rolling ground, copious roadside flowers and patches of cloud shadow and sunlight made for an interesting shot.
This one is included to illustrate just how empty I-80 can get in the middle of Nebraska.
As I figured, each time I gassed up (except the last time), my MPG hovered near 24.5 to not quite 25 MPG. But the final leg from east of Evanston to Salt Lake City saw a surprising 31 MPG
(PS, my TPMS/psi screen came back to life returning from Lapham Peak, then died the next day c. two hours before my drive was done; then this morning *boink* it was back and still hasn't dropped again
)
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, next door to the west. The Dragon also has a 30 MPH speed limit, which is largely ignored. Instead, they put up signs like this:
