You really want to ‘get away’ from people…
I can haz a suggestion…
Just go drive this road!
Granted I drove it back in 82, but seven hours crossing Nevada never saw another car outside the towns! It’s Route 50 in Nevada, runs from Ely to Lake Tahoe.
I got on it at Salina, UT, where I-70 ended, and that was a LONG day…
At least I didn’t try to drive it at night, I’d learned ‘that’ lesson on Hwy 45 from Memphis down to Mobile at night… shudder…never again!!!
It was really weird though, like I said, outside the towns, not a car or truck in sight for hours!!!
And you needed to make SURE you had enough gas! That was ‘not’ a place to run out of gas! And there weren’t many radio stations out there either… sigh
What is the ‘strangest’ road you’ve ever driven???
Could you add a google maps link showing the route?
Or, y’know, I could just drink some more coffee, figure it out, and then do that. 😉
https://tinyurl.com/54fdw9xf
But, were there any speed cops on it?
Back in 1980 or maybe it was ’81, young and unattached, drove from Mobile AL to Los Angeles on US 10. Was crossing TX at midnight, being young and bull headed, who needs sleep? Was minding my own business, almost zero cars on the road, doing maybe 75 when my doors were blown off by a Greyhound doing over 100 MPH. Decided there and then to draft the sucker. We crossed TX on a laser straight stretch all the way to NM border at that speed. Stupid? Yeah, but boy, what a ride that was. And yes, I survived as evidenced by this note.
Driving from Philly back to Norfolk in the seventies and crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in a very dense night fog.
There were no vehicles near me, and the fog was so thick that when I was under a light, I could not see the next light.
Driving with my crew from Jubail KSA To Jeddah KSA back in ’87-’88(?) while doing upgrades on their PCCs and PGGs for their navy. I was the only guy who was there for 16 months. Drove a loaded down Toyota Land Cruiser with the gear while the boyos drove a nice Nissan car. One “gas station” with a hand pump to pump gas about half way across the desert. Fun run.
Yep, drove it eastbound after my ’71 deployment on the way to Millington. I had stopped in Minden, NV for an aerobatics course in a Citabra. I remember my ’68 Bug chugging up the interstate west of Denver in first or second gear while Detroit gas guzzlers were having to back down ’cause they couldn’t make the grade.
Back in the mid-60’s, too poor for a motel, driving across half the country without sleep !! ah, to be “young again”.
I drive 50 regularly. It’s not that empty anymore, it’s got quite a few tourists on it, as well as access to a couple substantial good mines. The advertising for it is working.
If you want empty, take 6 from Ely to Tonopah. Over 200 miles with no towns or services, and very few vehicles.
Not terribly odd, but driving 395 North in California on a road trip in 2012. Two things I remember are a sign saying “Next Service 72 Miles” and going up a steep grade, foot glued to the floor in 3rd gear and still losing speed in my 92’ Jeep Cherokee.
Still one of my favorite trips.
Drove something close to it, the “Great Basin Highway,” turning north off the I-15 out of Las Vegas as if heading to Mesquite. Ely is COLD, and there is some nice mining history there. North past Hiko on the 318 there is a sign marked “NO Services Next 115 Miles,” and that would probably bug the eyes out of some of the recent European FIFA tourists – or Japanese tourists. Although I had what I thought was a sufficiently a reliable vehicle I *still* brought 3 gal of water, a portable dipole antenna (20m, 40m, 80m ham bands,) a 100W Yaesu portable radio with alligator clips to attach to my car battery, and my J-38 paddle. No cell service, kiddies! Those kinds of roads have the BEST roadside restaurants, though.
Dr. Mauser- LOL, not a single one seen across Nevada!
All- Yep, we’ve ‘all’ done those road trips, and I can see they stick in our memory!
AF7FD- I had a CB with a 100 watt booster… 🙂