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The US-54 going from Emporia, KS to Santa Rosa, NM.
I've heard of the US-50, but plenty of my old trucking trips had me using the 54 on more than one occasion.
I remember having to layover in Minneola, KS for a 24 period to pass in order to wait for 10 hrs to fall off my logbook time.
Another one in New Mexico...
U.S. 285 from Santa Fe to Roswell, but especially the stretch through high desert from little one streetlight town of Vaughn all the way to Roswell. You are in the middle of nowhere, you don't see any sign of humans. Hell, you don't even get any radio stations!
I made that trip once and that was a neat experience.
US 53 between Virginia, MN and International Falls is pretty desolate. Head out of International Falls in any direction and it's all desolate. Another one is US 2 from Minot, ND to Williston.
Miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles of NOTHING.
LOL
pretty scenery though (at least I thought so).
20yrsinBranson
Branson! I just saw Tony Orlando perform at Epcot. He still lives there, right? Raised in Manhatten and living in Branson, what a culture shock. Of course I've never been in Branson, so maybe I'm wrong?
Branson! I just saw Tony Orlando perform at Epcot. He still lives there, right? Raised in Manhatten and living in Branson, what a culture shock. Of course I've never been in Branson, so maybe I'm wrong?
He still owns property here (a house), but he spends most of the year elsewhere. He performs during the Veterans celebration and possibly during Christmas at the Welk Resort. He is a good entertainer and the town just loves him.
He always said that he liked the culture here. But who really knows? It's a lot different than New Yawk, for sure.
[quote=20yrsinBranson;13903254]He still owns property here (a house), but he spends most of the year elsewhere. He performs during the Veterans celebration and possibly during Christmas at the Welk Resort. He is a good entertainer and the town just loves him.
He always said that he liked the culture here. But who really knows? It's a lot different than New Yawk, for sure.
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Oh, ok, I kind of figured he traveled and entertained. His show at Epcot was "fantastic". He really knows how to entertain and his band was just great. In fact, the majority in the audience went to all 3 shows, he put on that night. We were there for two. Thanks for the info.
U.S. 285 from Santa Fe to Roswell, but especially the stretch through high desert from little one streetlight town of Vaughn all the way to Roswell. You are in the middle of nowhere, you don't see any sign of humans. Hell, you don't even get any radio stations!
I made that trip once and that was a neat experience.
Overall, NM is a beautiful state.
This is why I have satellite radio when 18wheeling anywhere.
You are right about New Mexico, unspoiled beauty and none of the light pollution CA suffers from.
U.S. 285 from Santa Fe to Roswell, but especially the stretch through high desert from little one streetlight town of Vaughn all the way to Roswell. You are in the middle of nowhere, you don't see any sign of humans. Hell, you don't even get any radio stations!
I made that trip once and that was a neat experience.
Overall, NM is a beautiful state.
This road might very well be the real loneliest road in America. I've never driven on US 50 through Nevada, but from what I've read, the road has now actually increased in traffic volume due to original article published about 30 years ago depicting this road in such stark terms. It's not the only road in New Mexico, though, that is as sparse as described. Much of the entire state is like this, because there really aren't any suburbs, other than around Albuquerque. Just about any other town, 5 minutes from the center intersection, you will be in the middle of nowhere, and by that I mean nothing. No homes, just roads and power lines. West Texas, past the Permian Basin, is exactly the same way. One poster wrote about the Guadalupe Peak to Van Horn, with 100 miles of only one structure: that is absolutely true. People from New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, etc can not relate to the sense of scale out here. You are talking about expanses of an entire northeast state without so much as a house being seen, while driving some of these roads in New Mexico.
For instance, there is a tiny little dirt track that skirts near the Nevada/Idaho/Oregon triborder that is among the loneliest I have seen in America. There are no services and no settlements and no pavement. It eventually gets lost into a tangle of other undeveloped rural tracks.
Basically, you could drive these routes between the tiny rural settlement of Owyhee, Nevada and the tiny rural settlement of McDermitt, Oregon - about 115 miles or so - and see no other vehicles at all.
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