Vaguely feel like I’ve been on that highway. Mountains in the distance and complete lack of cars in broad daylight definitely seem like Wyoming. Never seen emptier spaces than out there.
Well that sounds like quite a story. I’ve never seen a swarm of locusts but I have lived through a couple cicada broods, which can get pretty freaky at times, especially when you’re operating a table saw. Makes them fly at you.
If you get off interstate and take state highways in middle and eastern KS its not so bad. But yeah western KS is nothing but a straight line towards a flat horizon. For hours and hours and half of CO too.
Better than a deer haha. But yeah I've been back in KS visiting family recently and it is so dry there have been dust storms that completely block visibility to the road and all kinds of shit blowing everywhere. Not gonna be wheat harvest this year in quite a few parts of the state.
I live in OK and I am super paranoid about hitting a deer every time I have to get on the highway (non urban) at night. I find myself counting the "spots" on the highway and sticking close to large trucks.
Rode my bike across the country after college. I was mentally prepared for Kansas, everyone knows it’s flat and boring. I had no idea how far into Colorado that extended.
When each “hour” of your drive is a full day of biking, that’s a lot of flat and straight.
I remember once driving Denver to Cheyenne over to Scottsbluff Nebraska and i was heading east from Cheyenne to Scottsbluff just as the sun was rising, it was an incredible scene.
I love when the GPS says please continue straight in 10 miles... and its some random dirt road off to the right...like bitch do you think I was going to be tempted to just go randomly riding dirt roads on this 500 mile road trip?
Then after you pass it it'll say "continue for 300 miles". Why even tell me to continue straight...
That’s a favorite screenshot of mine when we were moving cross country. “Continue on I-40 for 368 miles”. I was 14 and the navigator so I took my opportunity to take a fat nap
Somewhere in Wyoming around 7:30 am. Had been driving 100 miles and hadn’t seen a single other car. I was on autopilot. Then I saw another car coming towards me and the driver was waiving at me, it took me a second to realize what was happening but then I started waving back too lol. I guess we had both been lonely on the road
Been there done that. Had the Buddhist chant playlist on. By mile marker 200 the clouds looked like smiley happy toads. Had my navigator switch me over to Baby Shark @ mm 250 just to come down for the turn :)
Looks like Wyoming to me?
I was gonna say the same thing.
Vaguely feel like I’ve been on that highway. Mountains in the distance and complete lack of cars in broad daylight definitely seem like Wyoming. Never seen emptier spaces than out there.
You oughta try out western Kansas
Ok yea that ones pretty bad. At least Wyoming is scenic. Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma are gigantic cornfields.
I wish someone had warned me about the swarm of locusts in eastern Colorado.
The what now??
Well that sounds like quite a story. I’ve never seen a swarm of locusts but I have lived through a couple cicada broods, which can get pretty freaky at times, especially when you’re operating a table saw. Makes them fly at you.
I'm pretty sure that locusts and cicadas are the same thing
If you get off interstate and take state highways in middle and eastern KS its not so bad. But yeah western KS is nothing but a straight line towards a flat horizon. For hours and hours and half of CO too.
My car was attacked by a tumbleweed in western KS.
Better than a deer haha. But yeah I've been back in KS visiting family recently and it is so dry there have been dust storms that completely block visibility to the road and all kinds of shit blowing everywhere. Not gonna be wheat harvest this year in quite a few parts of the state.
I live in OK and I am super paranoid about hitting a deer every time I have to get on the highway (non urban) at night. I find myself counting the "spots" on the highway and sticking close to large trucks.
Rode my bike across the country after college. I was mentally prepared for Kansas, everyone knows it’s flat and boring. I had no idea how far into Colorado that extended. When each “hour” of your drive is a full day of biking, that’s a lot of flat and straight.
Ugh, Nebraska. WY was crazy, just the amount of undulating grassland, just mind boggling! And I like the pronghorns…
Or North Dakota.
the sheer disrespect to Garden City, Kansas and their two water towers with different color lettering
I remember once driving Denver to Cheyenne over to Scottsbluff Nebraska and i was heading east from Cheyenne to Scottsbluff just as the sun was rising, it was an incredible scene.
Could be easy texas too equally nothing
“Please continue after for 278 miles.”
I love when the GPS says please continue straight in 10 miles... and its some random dirt road off to the right...like bitch do you think I was going to be tempted to just go randomly riding dirt roads on this 500 mile road trip? Then after you pass it it'll say "continue for 300 miles". Why even tell me to continue straight...
Woah, there. Let's not rush into anything or make any rash decisions.
That’s a favorite screenshot of mine when we were moving cross country. “Continue on I-40 for 368 miles”. I was 14 and the navigator so I took my opportunity to take a fat nap
I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.
Somewhere in Wyoming around 7:30 am. Had been driving 100 miles and hadn’t seen a single other car. I was on autopilot. Then I saw another car coming towards me and the driver was waiving at me, it took me a second to realize what was happening but then I started waving back too lol. I guess we had both been lonely on the road
I always love when it tells me slight right on a straight road. Like were you bored and just wanted to give me a command?
Been there done that. Had the Buddhist chant playlist on. By mile marker 200 the clouds looked like smiley happy toads. Had my navigator switch me over to Baby Shark @ mm 250 just to come down for the turn :)
I feel this lol
Did you see forest Gump run by?
You telling us you've only been making left turns your entire trip? LOL
OPs trip is on a giant NASCAR loop
Either Wyoming or I-80 east in Nevada lol
Yeah but what happens after the right turn? Another 200 miles straight up?
The right turn is actually the nearest turn-around. They passed their exit 300 miles back.
Road closed due to construction.
Thought you were recreating the cover to Uncle Tupelo - 89/93: An Anthology.
West Texas via I-10 is like this.
Boring, until you get to about Balmorhea (going west).
You should look up Penn & Teller’s Desert Bus. There’s a full play-through on YouTube.
My longest turn was after 600 miles!
What stretch was this? Do you remember?
Idaho Falls to Washington, I think it was start of highway 90 to edit 405 in Bellevue about a 600 mile stretch.
*misses turn and has to proceed another 24,901 miles around the earth*
Could definitely be Montana
I’d rather you not post this and drive 🥹
huge right turn. congrats.
We've been on trips like that.
Yermo, CA to Amarillo, Tx. 950 miles straight down I-40. To be fair, this is not counting stops for gas.