@OBW0549
Many years ago during the controller strike (President Reagan), a buddy and I were flying from Minnesota to SoCal. We happened to stop in Dalhart,TX, a WWII B-29 training base. There is/was a diner on the field. It was as close to "Flo's Diner" from the television series that I have seen. If you want to go back to the 1950's, include it on your itinerary, if it is still there.

"Flo's Diner" Dalhart, TX:
http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueAS99/hamburger.html

 

That would be doable if I take I-40 back, as it's only ≈70 mi. off the track. I'll keep it in mind.

 

There used to be an old time diner at the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon. Sadly, it's closed...

 

Back to the Video, I thought it was perfectly alright, not to long for me. It helped me see what the east has in terms of roads and how they lay.

Thanks,
kv

 

Back to the Video, I thought it was perfectly alright, not to long for me. It helped me see what the east has in terms of roads and how they lay.

Thanks for the feedback. I figure on keeping most videos to only a few minutes each, as anything more starts to become tedious (for me, anyway).

As for roads, the quality of ours here in the east is spotty; some are OK, some are atrocious. Interstate 95 through Chester, Pennsylvania, which is where I shot that video, is especially bad with lots of potholes and poor patch jobs.

 

Man a roadtrip sound's so much fun. I used to go on them as a kid. Now I'm a poor adult.

Watch the skies Traveler

 

I think May is out, barring a miracle.

And... it's out.

I'm going to postpone, at least until early September if not until next Spring. It doesn't seem to make any sense continuing with my initial plan of leaving 7 weeks from now: it looks like I very likely would encounter closed restaurants and possibly closed hotels all across the country even if this Coronavirus thing starts to clear up real soon-- and it doesn't look like that's going to be happening.

This type of nonsense doesn't bode well, either:

Official: Toilet paper being stolen from I-80 rest stops in Nebraska

I'll re-assess the situation come August and see where things stand.

Damn.

In the meantime, a little PSA:

 

What good is a rest area when the facilities are locked up?

Ron

 

What good is a rest area when the facilities are locked up?

Not much. Like this one:

 

Four years after snapping this pic, I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what this tank car inscription means:



(Location was south of Alamosa, Colorado just above the New Mexico border on US highway 285)

 

Four years after snapping this pic, I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what this tank car inscription means:

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(Location was south of Alamosa, Colorado just above the New Mexico border on US highway 285)

Probably some foreign guy trying to single that tank car as "don't ship" ?

 

Maybe it is part of a question, the rest on the other side, or another car?
Like, "Don't sheep count humans to get to sleep?"

 

Dang. I never thought to look at the other side of the rail car...

 

My alternative now is to make short trips.

Mt. Hood Timberline during the lockdown.

Empty but the hotel is still open for guests.

 

Dang. I never thought to look at the other side of the rail car...

My guess is it’s an opinion on the classic western conflict between cattle and sheep.

 

The missing apostrophe bugs me almost as much as the mystery of the thing...

 

Going stir crazy from this Coronavirus "shelter in place" and bored out of my mind. So I decided to make another YouTube video: The Bat Cave (my lab).

 

A month later, and I'm still bored out of my skull and going stir crazy-- but I don't seem any crazier than I was before, so all is good.

I've uploaded another YouTube video, here. Weather fascinates me, and we finally got some yesterday. Up til now we've had little other than monotonously clear skies, or dreary, featureless overcase. But yesterday a cold front pushed through with strong winds and a burst of rain (although the promised thunderstorms never materialized), making for some interesting cloud movements throughout the day as the prevailing winds changed direction.

This video was filmed on the GoPro8 in time lapse mode, with 300:1 time compression (1 frame per 10 seconds).

 

Weather fascinates me

Have you watched "The Aeronauts" on Netflix?

 

Nope.