Category: highways
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returning home
At Colby, Kansas tonight Parts of old US 24 are still maintained by the Colorado Department of Transportation, including a short segment east of Burlington apparatntly to access a CDOT maintaince facility. It’s hard to tell what part of the frontage road is state maintained, as the pavement is consistant, if a little rough, all…
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vacation notes
two days on the road…. we’ve made it to the Quality Suites at Evergreen Parkway on the west side of Denver. When fueling up in Wakeeney, the Phillips 66 station offered 89 Octane gas as regular, and 90 for midgrade. Ethanol fuel, anyone. At Goodland, several members of a car colector club happened to be…
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you know you’re hardcore when….
when attending a meeting on the new US 59 freeway, I was reconized by two folks there, one a retired KDOT engineer, another one of the KDOT reps there….
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Roadtrip report from Joplin
I left Lawrence after 7:15, and headed to Kansas City to “find” Ben. I found him, and he informed me that personal issues had come up (namly, relatives in and the baby is trying to come out early. I leave the metro by heading down the “Freeway of Love,” AKA US 69. Four-laning of the…
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New radio in the PA
Last friday, I purchaed a new Car Stereo for the Park Avenue Today, I had it installed. I had a little bit of time to listen to the new stereo (both the radio and CD). It sounds good. Now, I just neet to find a place for the old unit…
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egged
The Harvard Road egg squad did their random attack and struck my car. I had to go over to the car wash (in sub-freezing conditions) and get it off. Damage to the paint appears to be minimal. The paint came off in a couple of small spots around where one of the eggs struck on…
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Manual Adjustment
On my way home from Union Station (see yesterday’s blog entry), I jiggled around with the wire running between the swith and the cruise control on the PA. I set the cruise at 65, and lo and behold, the darn thing finally works (and I located the “Cruise” light that turns on with the cruise…
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The holy grail
I would call this the Holy Grail of Roadmaps…. Sunday, I was going through the Kansas Map collection at the TR Smith map library and found what I would call the “holy grail” of Roadmaps…. A 1918 Hockaday roadmap of Kansas. In the days before numbered routed, F.W. Hockaday marked the major trails with direction…
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working out the new PA’s bugs
As of Monday, I have officially held title to a 94 Buick Park Avenue. Howeve, that doesn’t mean I’ve ran into little problems First off (and this isn’t too bad), the previous owners were smokers. I literally washed the seatbelts and the front seats, and applied generous amounts of a Febreze knock-off to the upholstery.…
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New Ride
I put this under “highways” cause it does have a periphrial over-the-road theme…. it’s also partially why I haven’t updated the highways site recently….. My current car, a 91 Buick Regal, has had enough problems with it that it has not been deemed worthy of long range travel (my last major road trip was to…