I-85 NB Scenes In GA - August 19, 2006 (Pt. 2)

Well, dear reader, that darned webpage-creatin' frenzy just struck me again!!! :)

For your viewing pleasure, I have just created and published the final special feature page for our most recent I-85 northbound trip in Georgia. Please click here to see it.

For a special bonus toe-tappin' "roadgeek treat" (a 20-second Quicktime movie), then please click here.

That'll be it for now... unless that frenzy strikes me again tonight. Thanks for visiting, hope you enjoy my work, and please come back again.

I-85 NB Scenes In GA - August 19, 2006 (Pt. 1)

Well, dear reader, I've just created and published yet another special feature page.

This is the first in a series of I-85 northbound pictures that I took as the wife and I headed toward Virginia and DC, and there will be more to come. Please click here to see them.

That's it for today. Hope y'all enjoy them, thanks for visiting, and please come back again.

Virginia Roads And A GA 400 Update

First of all, regarding my last blog...

Michael Roberson (a.k.a. "Mapmikey"), co-curator of the Virginia Highways Project website, posted the following comment on both the Southeast Roads Yahoo! Group (seroads) and misc.transport.road...

There are numerous state-maintained routes in Virginia shorter than this.

Primary: VA 54Y is 0.03 mi
VA 201Y is 0.11 mi
VA 300Y is 0.04 mi
other Y routes that are now gone were shorter than that (208Y, 340Y)
VA 124 is 0.17 mi gone now but VA 289 was 0.13 mi (Wythe County)
VA 332 is 0.14 mi
VA 335 is 0.18 mi
VA 342 is 0.16 mi
VA 349 is 0.12 mi
VA 363 is 0.14 mi
VA 374 is 0.14 mi
VA 390 is 0.13 mi
VA 391 is 0.17 mi
VA 399 is 0.11 mi

The list of secondary routes less than this is astronomical but F-338 on VA 30 at I-95 is listed officially at 0.03 mi but the end state maintenance sign appears to be much closer to VA 30 than 150 ft.

A very special thanks to "Mapmikey" for the clarification and we here at "The Georgia Road Geek" encourage you, dear reader, to visit his website to learn more about Virginia's roads. :)

And finally, some new Georgia road news regarding GA 400...

According to an article published on Sunday, August 13, 2006, in the Forsyth County News, Georgia State Transpotation Board Chairman Mike Evans stated that the US 19/GA 400 widening between HolcombBridge Road (Exit 7) and Windward Parkway (Exit 11) should be complete by October 31, 2006, and the portion from Windward to McFarland Parkway (Exit 12) will be completed by February 28, 2007.

That's all for now. Thanks for visiting and please do so often.

The Shortest State Highway In America?

Dear reader, I have been on a webpage-creatin' frenzy since getting back from Washington. :)

At 0.18 miles, VA Secondary Route 1015 in Fluvanna County, VA, seems to be the shortest state highway in America? Please click here for the special feature page I created.

If there are any state-maintained routes that are shorter, I'd like to know. Please feel free to share your thoughts.

That's all for now, but considering the roll I've been on, you never, ever know. :)

Thanks for visiting and please do so often.

Welcome Center Photos - August, 2006

Dear Reader,

Just a quick post before I go do some household chores...

As part of the ongoing Special Features Pages series, I have added yet another page with photos from the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia welcome centers. Please click here to see the new page.

Well, it's time to get the "recyclables" taken care of. Thanks for visiting and please come back again.

NEW: Special Feature Pages

New to "The Georgia Road Geek"... Special Feature Pages!!!

Whenever I do a blog and create a special feature page to go along with it, that page's URL will be linked from the Special Feature Pages section. For example, the "Old US 41 (Dixie Highway) in Adairsville" page is now available through this particular archive site.

A special thanks to fellow road enthusiast Adam Prince of Gribble Nation for suggesting this.

Finally, for a really, really special "roadgeek treat"..... please click here.

That's all for now. Thanks for visiting, please tell all your friends about us, and please visit often.

Our DC, Maryland, and Virginia Trip

Steve at NC Welcome Center on I-85 NB (Photo taken by Mary Williams)

Today (Sunday, 8/27) at approximately 2:45 PM, just south of Greensboro, NC... I have now driven every mile of I-85 from Montgomery, AL, to Petersburg, VA!!! :)

Mary and I spent the last week in the Washington, DC, metro area. Other than "roadgeeking", we got to tour The White House, The Capitol, the Holocaust Museum, Arlington Cemetery, and the Smithsonian Air and Space and American History museums. We also visited Mount Vernon, saw Mary's old house in Chantilly (just south of the Dulles Airport), and did a lot of scenic driving and "roadgeeking". We also attended part of the Toastmasters International convention at the Hilton Washington. We actually stayed in Alexandria, VA, and took the DC Metro train for most of our DC visits. Kudos to the Metro for being convenient to most of the sites we visited.

Before reaching DC, we headed up US 29 to Charlottesville, VA, to visit Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and spend the night with her old friend Katherine. Thanks to Katherine, her husband Larry, and her mother Bunny for a wonderful time, plus a suggested scenic drive between Charlottesville and Fredericksburg that we took on our way to the DC area.

Besides clinching I-85, I also clinched I-295 in DC/Maryland, did some driving on I-64, I-66, I-81, I-395, I-495, and of course I-95 between I-85 and I-295 in Maryland. In addition to adding some new interstate driving mileage, I also added boatloads of new counties in DC, MD, NC, and VA, and even drove over the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge.

I took over 400 photos, and even Mary took several while we were on I-495 between Connecticut Avenue in Maryland to I-95/395 in Alexandria. Eventually, I'll go through them and share the best ones with y'all.

That's all for now. It's getting late, we've only been home since 8:30 PM, and I'm tired after nearly 12 hours on the road. Mary went to bed over an hour ago and I'm gonna join her.

Thanks for visiting and please come back again.

The Old Dixie Highway In Adairsville

Last weekend, Mary and I went back to Subligna for her father's annual family reunion and Subligna Methodist Church homecoming.

On the way back home Sunday, we briefly stopped in Adairsville to get a photo of a Dixie Highway sign that we'd seen on GA 140 for the longest time. Since the sign on GA 140 was not in a good spot for a photo, we pulled off the road onto a street that turned out to be part of the old US 41... The Dixie Highway itself!!! :)

For your viewing pleasure, I have created a new page featuring the photos we took.

Next Saturday, we're heading to Washington, DC, and northern Virginia to see the sights and attend the Toastmasters convention. Since I'll be driving us up there and back, I'll be "clinching" a ton of new counties in Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia (for Harper's Ferry), and hopefully at least one or two in Maryland. Oh yeah... by the time we get back, we will have "clinched" all of I-85!!! :)

That's all for now. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the photos, and please visit often.

The GA 400 Survival Kit

This afternoon as I was making my way toward home, the traffic on both I-285 outer loop and GA 400 northbound was horrendous... even more than usual!!!

Thankfully, I had my ham radio rig in the truck and QSOing (talking) with fellow hams David, Hutch, Marshall, and James on the Atlanta Radio Club's (ARC) 146.82 MHz repeater really helped make the ride a little more bearable.

During my QSO with David, he mentioned that he avoids GA 400 whenever possible and I can't blame him for doing so. He even (jokingly) had the idea of a "GA 400 survival kit" that would include provisions (food, water, etc.) for all those long times one spends in traffic on that infamous Metro Atlanta road.

While I may not literally pack provisions, I am thankful for my own "survival kit", my ham radio rig... and for all the hams I talk to on both the ARC repeater and the Sawnee Mountain Amateur Group's 147.15 MHz repeater. You guys are great!!! :)

That's all for now. I'm getting ready for tomorrow and I'll be going to bed soon.

Thanks, dear reader, for visiting, reading, and for all your support.