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07-08-2007, 10:20 AM
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Cyclist
2007 28' International CCD
Windermere
, Florida
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Your Worst Road ?
Stayed for a lovely week in the Mts of NC.
Drive up from Fla. included I -95 in South Carolina. This buckboard section of the interstate so beat my truck and trailer that I detoured an extra 100 miles going home just to avoid it. Boy, are they overdue in Rd maintenance.
What's you worst road?
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07-08-2007, 10:28 AM
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Rivet Master
1984 31' Airstream310
Central
, Ohio
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Oh, geez, without a doubt the stretch of I-40 from Memphis to Little Rock. It will beat the HECK out of you, no matter what you are driving. It is a major truck route and Arkansas hasn't bothered to do anything with it.
There was an article on it in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette recently where the state acknowledged the issues with it and said it was on the list to get to soon, and they hadn't got to it before due to other priorities. We'll see.
As a secondary, the stretch of I-530 (in Arkansas between Little Rock and Pine Bluff) from Exit 24 about 8 miles north is horrible. Patched to within an inch of its life and really messed up, and they keep redoing little bits of it but it needs ripping out and total replacement.
Susan
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07-08-2007, 10:32 AM
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Head Animal Wrangler
2010 19' International
2015 Interstate Ext. Coach
Los Osos
, California
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 4,696
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The Al Can Highway!
The road to Alaska where they call baseball sized rocks in the road gravel.
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07-08-2007, 10:40 AM
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3 Rivet Member
2000 34' Limited
Lebanon
, Ohio
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 100
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Quote:
Originally Posted by henw
Stayed for a lovely week in the Mts of NC.
Drive up from Fla. included I -95 in South Carolina. This buckboard section of the interstate so beat my truck and trailer that I detoured an extra 100 miles going home just to avoid it. Boy, are they overdue in Rd maintenance.
What's you worst road?
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I'm curious where you stayed in mountains of NC. We live in the mountains of Western NC .
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07-08-2007, 10:41 AM
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More than one rivet loose
Currently Looking...
Los Alamos
, New Mexico
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CA hwy 17 from Monterey to Southern Bay. Bounced truck and trailer the whole way and that sucker is windy. I had to slow down well below posted speed and got nasty stares from people passing me.
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Sarah, Snowball
Looking for a 1962 Flying Cloud
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07-08-2007, 10:57 AM
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Rivet Master
2006 25' Safari FB SE
St. Cloud
, Minnesota
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 13,280
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Tired concrete highways anywhere -- how it rises near the seams and gives a bucking tow experience. I have seen some hwy dept milling of these areas near the seams and it improves the experience immensely!
Actual highway? U.S. 50 in northeast West Virginia! Short sharp switchbacks up the grinding climbs will put any transmission cooler to the test!
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07-08-2007, 11:08 AM
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Naysayer
1968 24' Tradewind
Russellville
, earth
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alumatube
Oh, geez, without a doubt the stretch of I-40 from Memphis to Little Rock. It will beat the HECK out of you, no matter what you are driving. It is a major truck route and Arkansas hasn't bothered to do anything with it.
Susan
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Thanks for the heads up! I was considering using that route. I am just as happy to miss it.
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07-08-2007, 12:11 PM
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Rivet Master
1972 Argosy 20
Middletown
, New Jersey
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I-287 in NY, between I-684 and the Tappan Zee Bridge is tied with the Cross Bronx Expressway for worst in my book. YUCK!
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07-08-2007, 12:18 PM
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Rivet Master
2002 25' Classic
Oro Valley
, Arizona
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I-40 isn't good west of the Mississippi at spots......it is/has been a mess around Gallup for a couple of years. Lots of single lane stuff for bridge replacement.
Hwy 99 around Bakersfield seems to have seams just at the wrong spot for whatever rig I am driving; it was terrible in the MH and it is bad with my present tt and tv.
I believe it was the Eisenhower administration that got us some of the inter-state system AND it has been detiorating ever since
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2002 Classic 25'
2003 Expedition EB 5.4L, AWD, AdvanceTrac Class IV hitch pkg. Reese dual cam/Prodigy
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07-08-2007, 12:25 PM
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Ready-to-Travel
2012 30' International
Walkerton
, Virginia
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Between Richmond VA and Albuquerque NM, the worst in my opinion is OK City west about 30 miles. Talking about rolling thunder. Not an occasional bump, but hump hump hump. I could not find a speed at which I felt I was not doing real damage.
The Top of the World highway between Tok, AK and Dawson City YT is tough, but not as uncomfortable.
Pat
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07-08-2007, 12:40 PM
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Rivet Master
2004 30' Classic Slideout
2021 33FB Classic
Colleyville
, TX
Join Date: May 2005
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Ditto I-40 Memphis to Little Rock
....and you might add I-20 East of "The Big Muddy" as well. Those expansion joints on a concrete highway again!
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07-08-2007, 02:04 PM
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Rivet Master
1958 22' Flying Cloud
1956 30' Sovereign of the Road
1963 16' Bambi
Southeastern Area
, Tennessee
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I-59 both north-and southbound between Gadsden, AL and Fort Payne, AL. It's 40 miles of old-fashioned washboard without mercy. The left lanes are slightly better than the right, and northbound slightly better than south, but it will shake out your rivets regardless.
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07-08-2007, 03:26 PM
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Rivet Master
1964 22' Safari
SACRAMENTO
, California
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California's hwy 80!!
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07-08-2007, 03:29 PM
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Aluminut
2004 25' Safari
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, Illinois
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Really, most roads in Illinois are pretty bad unless the have been rebuilt in the past 2-3 years.
...but even when they are repaired, it's pretty much a parking lot anyway on nearly every Interstate in the Chicagoland area.
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07-08-2007, 04:04 PM
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Rivet Master
1960 22' Safari
in the wilderness
, The great Mojave Desert
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I 5 Between the grapevine and Sacramento.
The road surface will pop a shock absorber through your hood. I can hear my trailer crying for mercy.
Scenery. It is grim go through at night if you can.
Hastings Ranch. That smell has knocked buzzards of wagons. If you've smelled it you know I'm being polite.
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07-08-2007, 04:10 PM
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Retired.
Currently Looking...
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As far as the route, State Route 28 in North Carolina along with US 129 between Bryson City and Chilhowee. the condition of the road is okay, but the twisting, turning, and up-and-down (constant) make it a nightmare to drive. I don't think I ever went more than 25 mph, and usually that seemed recklessly fast. I had (very) briefly considered taking our trailer that way, as the map said it was very scenic, and recommended to travel. It would break a snake's back to try to travel this route.
As for an Interstate, I-80 in Western Pennsylvania was really bad the last time I had the misfortune to have to drive it, some sections were gravel, with huge potholes. And this was an Interstate!
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07-08-2007, 04:53 PM
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Site Team
2002 25' Safari
Dewey
, Arizona
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Goin camping
I 5 Between the grapevine and Sacramento.
The road surface will pop a shock absorber through your hood. I can hear my trailer crying for mercy.
Scenery. It is grim go through at night if you can.
Hastings Ranch. That smell has knocked buzzards of wagons. If you've smelled it you know I'm being polite.
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I did that trip a couple of years ago to buy (not) an Airstream just north of Santa Rosa. The road was not too bad, but I did not have a trailer in tow. The scenery did improve after the sun set
I do not know Hastings Ranch, but the air going past Bakersville had a bad taste to it
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Wally Byam Airstream Club 7513
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07-08-2007, 04:59 PM
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Liberator
1972 Argosy 24
1989 34.5' Airstream 345
Heart of Dixie
, Alabama
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Arch Back Alley
This has to be the ultimate shaker path.
Goes thru an Indian reservation, and is not graded often.
Dirt and very wide, about 40'
We were on a mission to see all the arches we could.
There was one on the cover of Rand Mac back around '96 that was down this road.
Really did look just like the old washboard.
No speed was good.
Too slow was like horse back...
Too fast and you had no control.
Just north of Moab in Utah
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07-08-2007, 05:13 PM
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Rivet Master
1960 22' Safari
in the wilderness
, The great Mojave Desert
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by azflycaster
I do not know Hastings Ranch, but the air going past Bakersville had a bad taste to it
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Oh the bad taste is the cropdusters. A lovely combination of dirt and chemicals.
Hastings ranch, the actual ranch and not the diner is a cattle finishing yard. You can roll up the windows and turn off all vents and still smell/taste/feel the stench.
I 5 is a truck highway most cars take the 99 to the East. All those trucks have done a number on the road surface.
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AIR# 13896
CA 4
Yes, we have courtesy parking for you. About an hour North of Los Angeles.
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07-08-2007, 05:45 PM
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3 Rivet Member
2005 25' Safari
Roseville
, California
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Gonin Camping - that foul area on I-5 is just north of Harris Ranch, not Hastings Ranch. When we see/smell it 'comin we put the AC on recirc and hope for the best. My kids used to try and hold their breath.
Hastings Ranch sounds real familiar - but I can't place it, other than a subdivision in or near Sierra Madre off the 210 in SoCal.
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Cam
2005 25' Safari SS
2005 Dodge Ram 2500 Turbodiesel
WBCCI #3580 - Region 12 NorCal
AIR #8752
Roseville, CA
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