Please read Carol’s post at http://cgstudio.net/ for story of the day’s travel. We have set out in the past to drive The Lincoln Highway It is part of our personal collection of highways. Many RVers will have a map on their coach showing the states they have been in on their travels. There are many different “rules” that people use to consider a state for inclusion on the map. Some consider a drive through a corner as sufficient others have requirements of various lengths of stay or activity to include a state on the map. We filled our state map many years ago. It turned out the toughest to get was Connecticut. It is small, not as small as RI, but it has a limited number of campgrounds we would stay in and few places we wanted to see. 

But I digress. Once the map was full we didn’t even bother putting it up on GeeWhiz. We tripped into a new collection, highways. Many people start the collection with Route 66 because of its fame from the song and the TV show. We have driven parts of it, but it isn’t exciting for us since it no longer exists as an official US or state route. It is a collection of pieces from various alignments with no way to drive it as a unit. Our first collected highway was US 1  from Calais Maine to Key West FL. We have driven all of it over a period of decades starting from Providence RI when I was an undergraduate at Brown. The next highway we sought to collect was US 20 Newport OR to the Boston Commons, we will not drive the section in Chicago that is a surface street. US 90 runs from Jacksonville Florida to Van Horn Texas where it merges on to I 10. 

I included the map of US 50 the Lincoln Highway to show what a challenge it can be as alignments shift over time. We have driven it from Sacramento to Pueblo on I 25. We diverted there to visit friends in Kansas and never got back to it. This trip we will divert in Grand Junction and will continue north. I guess we will have to pick it up another time.

Two of the best Parkways in the country are Blue Ridge and Natchez Trace. Both are worth the drive. Even a car trip with motels would be well worth it. Our first time on the Blue Ridge we were in a car with a tent. great fun.

I had no idea where this post was headed when I started. Do read Carol’s post about our arrival in rain and hail.  http://cgstudio.net/2021/06/25/message-in-a-minute-the-loneliest-hwy-route-50-adventures/