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Two Lane Roads
Yahoo Message Number: 2904
Now that you all have your LD's (or soon will have) it is time for sermon #412.

Did you know Napa Valley has a complete petrified forest, a grove of Coastal Redwoods that you can actually touch the petrified bark hairs? Did you know that Southern Arizona has an area known as Patagonia, with trees and lakes and hills you never expect to see in Arizona? Did you know that on the road to Pategonia is a sixteenth century mission that is still in daily use, and still has murals and statues which take you back to the Conquistadors? Did you know there is an Anasazi site north of Silver City. N.M., which is self toured without a ranger telling you to hurry along? Did you know the same site has a boondock campground on a bluff overlooking the river? Did you know that Ouray, CO has many old gold mining roads that you can explore in a rented 4 X 4, and find SEVEN ghost towns in a single day? Did you know that Newport, RI, is a museum - not HAS a museum, but IS a museum? That every building in downtown was built before the Revolution? That behind the White Horse Tavern (1743) is the Quaker Meeting House (1699)?

No?

Then you must start to avoid the sterile freeways and drive the smaller highways. There is where the treasures are; there is where you find all the things that makes this wonderful land so great. And your Lazy Daze is perfectly sized to do this - you don't have to stick to the freeways because you need the big open gas stations - you can fit into any station on the road.

Amen and Many Happy Trails

Gus Weber
Two Lane Roads
Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 2907
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By: gweber3369 Date: 3/28/01 9:17 am

Now that you all have your LD's (or soon will have) it is time for sermon >#412.

Did you know Napa Valley has a complete petrified forest, a grove of >Coastal Redwoods that you can actually touch the petrified bark hairs? >Did you know that Southern Arizona has an area known as Patagonia, >with trees and lakes and hills you never expect to see in Arizona? Did >you know ----- snip -----

Thanks for the inspirational "sermon", Gus. Any pointers to sermons #411 and earlier?

Bob
Two Lane Roads
Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 2915
Books like Walk Across America and Blue Highways kindled my interest in those "blue highways" you refer to. Riding RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa), the largest bike ride in the US and traveling the Midwest as a salesman for 30 years caused me to look not just for those wonderful state highways but for many great paved county highways here in Iowa and throughout the Midwest. Traveling the Great River Road from Iowa to southern Louisiana gave us a real appreciation for what you say. All of that travel was by car or bicycle; when we pick up our 26.5RK in September, we will travel those "blue highways" in a much more interesting way with plenty of time to linger for those things that most people pass and never even really see.
Thanks Gus for all of your insight!
Two Lane Roads
Reply #4 –
Yahoo Message Number: 2933
Here's a great web site you may be interested in:
 [url=http://www.lazydazeowners.com/[url=http://www.moon.com/road_trip/

This is just one of the links on my "Trip Planning" web page:
 [url=http://www.lazydazeowners.com/[url=http://www.calpoly.edu/~gharvey/RVLplanning.html

Ya'll are giving me the urge to jump in the LD and GO! If it wasn't for that durned four-letter word, W**K, I would! ;~)

~Greg
 
Two Lane Roads
Reply #5 –
Yahoo Message Number: 2979
Greg wrote (snip) Here's a great web site you may be interested in: [url=http://www.lazydazeowners.com/[url=http://www.moon.com/road_trip/ - - -

Greg, this website nearly made me go AWOL from w**k. Do you have this book? I can hardly wait the year and a half I have to go before I get to hit the road full-time. This book is definately going with me. Thanks!!!

The link on your website to backroads around San Fransisco really made me yearn to be back in the Bay Area.
Oh well, can't be everywhere all at once.

However in the world do you find all those great links and find the time to keep your web page so dynamic? It's really one of the best of my bookmarks. We're lucky to have you.

Sarah, Mz Daisy, and Monk the Wonder Dawg, in Seattle