The Texas Autobahn

[Moliere]

287 also has very nice rest stops with free WiFi. Also, every small town along it with a population more than 500 has a dairy queen.

All true. The rest stops have bathrooms nicer than a 4-star hotel (I'm serious). The playgrounds are also nice, especially for my little kids.

FTR, we ate at Dairy Queen in Clayton, NM and the guy behind the counter asked me about Jimmer (I was wearing a BYU hat). Clayton, NM!

[Viking]

I was driving 110 mph in 1990 on that road when my radar detector started screaming. I have no idea how i didn't get pulled over. I slammed on the brakes and almost lost it.

I haven't driven faster than 80 mph since that incident.

Oops. Wrong road. I was recalling 281 to Possum Kingdom.

I've been on 287 for all of those painful Dallas to Provo 24 hour marathon drives far too often than I'd like to remember. Doctor Coug might recall some of these. Our dad's infamous "house is going to burn down" incident at my grandma's happened after one of these.

[Portland Ute]

You know what is NOT awesome? Driving on I84 in Oregon. 65 mph. Through vast stretches of abso-freaking-lutely NOTHING.

And, not only is the speed limit a joke, but if you get a ticket, it's exorbitant.

All of the freeways around Portland are 55. FIFTY-FIVE!

[BigFatMeanie]

You know what is NOT awesome? Driving on I84 in Oregon. 65 mph. Through vast stretches of abso-freaking-lutely NOTHING.

And, not only is the speed limit a joke, but if you get a ticket, it's exorbitant.

All of the freeways around Portland are 55. FIFTY-FIVE!

Hawaii is the worst place in the 50 states for low speeds. Speed limits on the freeway are 55 and in many places 50. Yeah, they have some curvy freeways on the island but nothing worse than Parley's Canyon. Speed limit in Parley's is 65, with snow.

[Pheidippides]

All true. The rest stops have bathrooms nicer than a 4-star hotel (I'm serious). The playgrounds are also nice, especially for my little kids.

FTR, we ate at Dairy Queen in Clayton, NM and the guy behind the counter asked me about Jimmer (I was wearing a BYU hat). Clayton, NM!

I'll vouch for this. The rest stops are superb - among the best I've ever seen, if not the best.

[Portland Ute]

Hawaii is the worst place in the 50 states for low speeds. Speed limits on the freeway are 55 and in many places 50. Yeah, they have some curvy freeways on the island but nothing worse than Parley's Canyon. Speed limit in Parley's is 65, with snow.

You might be right about speed limits, but I guaran-damn-tee you that the distances that exist in Hawaii don't compare to the distances across the state of Oregon. The 290 miles from The Dalles to Ontario or vice-versa are agonizing.

Instead of 3 and a half hours, it takes 4 and a half. It's downright awful.

[myboynoah]

You might be right about speed limits, but I guaran-damn-tee you that the distances that exist in Hawaii don't compare to the distances across the state of Oregon. The 290 miles from The Dalles to Ontario or vice-versa are agonizing.

Instead of 3 and a half hours, it takes 4 and a half. It's downright awful.

Virginia's like that too, or at least that last time I was there. 65 is the top speed with lots of speed traps. Of course, it can be very pretty driving through the Shenandoah, but after having done it multiple times, often at night, all you really want to do is get to Tennessee so you can bump it up to 75+.

[MartyFunkhouser]

You know what is NOT awesome? Driving on I84 in Oregon. 65 mph. Through vast stretches of abso-freaking-lutely NOTHING.

And, not only is the speed limit a joke, but if you get a ticket, it's exorbitant.

All of the freeways around Portland are 55. FIFTY-FIVE!

Amen. Oregon may be the promised land for me bit that is despite the speed limit.
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[Portland Ute]

Virginia's like that too, or at least that last time I was there. 65 is the top speed with lots of speed traps. Of course, it can be very pretty driving through the Shenandoah, but after having done it multiple times, often at night, all you really want to do is get to Tennessee so you can bump it up to 75+.

Virginia is a very "Wide State. If you take the freeways from the coast to TN, that is a very long drive.

I just looked it up on Google. VA looks like it could very well be worse than Oregon. Ouch.

Oregon still sucks. No matter what mpfunk says. Except for the food offerings.

[Pheidippides]

Virginia's like that too, or at least that last time I was there. 65 is the top speed with lots of speed traps. Of course, it can be very pretty driving through the Shenandoah, but after having done it multiple times, often at night, all you really want to do is get to Tennessee so you can bump it up to 75+.

Yup. Did that drive too, down 81 is it? I never though of Virginia as being the inspiration for Deliverance, but some of the locals on that drive were...um...interesting.

[myboynoah]

Yup. Did that drive too, down 81 is it? I never though of Virginia as being the inspiration for Deliverance, but some of the locals on that drive were...um...interesting.

Yup, that's it.

Coming from DC, once you get through the hills into the Shenendoah near Front Royal, a whole new world appears.

I've done the run from DC to Chattanooga so many times, before and after marriage. You can see an LDS chapel just east of the interstate in Bristol, VA, in case you were curious. There's also some rocky hills just south of Blacksburg (I think) where local college kids have left their marks via various painted messages. Also, the counties south of Knoxville have very liberal fireworks laws, so stock up there.

Final story. After our wedding, we packed up the car to make the trip from Chattanooga to our new home near DC. What a cry-fest. Her mother, her sisters, her dad. mrs. myboynoah herself cried all the way to and well into Virginia.

That stretch of interstate has a lot of memories.

[Green Monstah]

You know what is NOT awesome? Driving on I84 in Oregon. 65 mph. Through vast stretches of abso-freaking-lutely NOTHING.

And, not only is the speed limit a joke, but if you get a ticket, it's exorbitant.

All of the freeways around Portland are 55. FIFTY-FIVE!

Interesting, I think the westward drive on 84 is absolutely beautiful across the entire state.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

You know what is NOT awesome? Driving on I84 in Oregon. 65 mph. Through vast stretches of abso-freaking-lutely NOTHING.

And, not only is the speed limit a joke, but if you get a ticket, it's exorbitant.

All of the freeways around Portland are 55. FIFTY-FIVE!

I agree with PU, I've driven that stretch once and it sucked balls. I think there was less around there than the stretch between Primm (Nevada-California state line) and Baker and the speed limit was ridiculous and they really do ticket people there for going to 2-3 mph over.

[Green Monstah]

I agree with PU, I've driven that stretch once and it sucked balls. I think there was less around there than the stretch between Primm (Nevada-California state line) and Baker and the speed limit was ridiculous and they really do ticket people there for going to 2-3 mph over.

I don't know. You get to see the mountains, the farmland, the rolling hills, the CR Gorge.

[Moliere]

Interesting, I think the westward drive on 84 is absolutely beautiful across the entire state.

I've driven it quite a bit. It sucks until you get to the Dalles, then it's beautiful. We drove the old Columbia River Gorge highway and stopped at Crown Point. It was a fantastic day and I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful lookout than I did from Crown Point. Absolutely fantastic view. Ours looked even better than this...