Category Archives: On the road
How to find the best backroads in Wisconsin
For some reason, we could not get a Wisconsin map at any of the tourist offices we visited while there last weekend – and we tried several. Perhaps it’s part of some budget cutback? Anyway, it forced us to rely … Continue reading
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Deadliest drive times….
So here’s the bottom line on the deadliest times to drive, according to recent AAALiving mag: during a weekend pre-dawn rain shower in August…. who’dah thunk it but here’s the reasoning: – 10 percent of all fatal crashes happen on … Continue reading
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Risky driving Pt. 2
As promised here’s more info from AAALiving’s traffic expert on the riskiest times/situations to drive: – When it’s raining right? Not necessarily. It depends on how long since it’s last rained. The longer it hasn’t rained, the higher the crash … Continue reading
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The riskiest time to drive?
What’s the riskiest time to be driving on the road? Not surprisingly, it’s late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, according to Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, who offers wisdom in the May/June … Continue reading
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Finding the safest roads to drive on your next road trip
Word has it that AAA is working with eight states (including Iowa?) on a pilot program to their safest roads – so if you’re planning a road trip, you could plan accordingly even using your in-car gps to find not … Continue reading
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Teen driver crash stats
My 17-year-old is giving me a hard time (big surprise there) about not letting her drive with a 17-year-0ld friend to Iowa City this weekend – a two-hour trip each way. And so I had to dig up statistics to … Continue reading
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Oregon coast: the downside of comfort
We are so cozy up here in our tree house near the beach in Manzanita that it’s tempting to just stay put. The bed here is as snug as a nest — a wooden nook built into the rear wall … Continue reading
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To the Oregon Coast
On a spectacular morning, we drove north from Medford on Highway 5 to Sutherlin where we picked up 138 and then 38 west to Reedsport on the Oregon Coast. Beautiful scenery the entire way – through mountain valleys shrouded in … Continue reading
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Oregon is gorge-ous
I’m a bit of a gorge snob after all the time I’ve spent in New York State’s Finger Lakes but the Columbia River Gorge, just east of Portland is nothing to sneeze at. The waterfalls are very different from the ones … Continue reading
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Art along the Iowa interstates
Inspired by the fantastic new mural we stumbled upon inside a welcome center along Interstate 35 in northern Missouri last December, I started looking into efforts by other states to spruce up their highway pit stops with art. And lo … Continue reading
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