OT: 5 (or more) Road Trips on your personal must-do list

[ThisJustIn]

Done bits and pieces of many listed... Looking for some road trip suggestions. Teaching out at Fresno State first week in January and looking to sandwich it with trips. Thinking I should land in Vegas on a Friday. Need to be in Fresno Monday afternoon... then done the next Friday afternoon, back to Vegas. Or do I land in Reno, got to Fresno, leave from Las Vegas (and deal with the pickup/dropoff rental)...

 

[JRRRJ]

We also took this road but traveled 'counterclockwise' around the island. Certainly not too much traffic

Let's just say the joke we heard about the Hawaiian Highway Department was true: They improved the road and made it two lanes - by painting a line down the middle of it! There were many sections of this newly paved road that two cars could not pass without both pulling slightly off the highway.

Much of the road looks like this:

...and the "No Shoulder" sign tells you why I said "occasionally hair-raising".

But it's not the narrowest frequently-traveled road on Maui by a long shot. About 10-15 miles north of Kahului on Rt 340 in Kahakuloa there is a section of road (the only road around the west end of the island) that goes up a 6-7% grade for about a quarter of a mile.

Hanging on the side of a nearly vertical cliff.

About 6 feet wide.

No guard rail.

When we were about 2/3 of the way up, a car appeared around a slight corner, on its way down. They wouldn't back up, because there is a hairpin turn literally at the top of the cliff, as you start your way down. So we got to back up about 1000' before we go to a place wide enough for two cars.

It seemed to take forever.

I'd have pictures if I weren't too focused on the backing to remember I had a camera.

 

[Wally East]

Done bits and pieces of many listed... Looking for some road trip suggestions. Teaching out at Fresno State first week in January and looking to sandwich it with trips. Thinking I should land in Vegas on a Friday. Need to be in Fresno Monday afternoon... then done the next Friday afternoon, back to Vegas. Or do I land in Reno, got to Fresno, leave from Las Vegas (and deal with the pickup/dropoff rental)...

Death Valley in January should be tolerable

 

[ABachelor6CR]

I probably have about 89 or so. but I first list the top 5 that immediately come to mind.

1) The Blue Ridge Parkway from beginning to end. Its 469 miles. Ive driven on approximately 220 miles of it through the years in both NC and VA.... from mileposts 120 to 340.... hope to check out mileposts 469-340 this year.

2) The Pacific Coast Highway

3) Vermont Route 100 in the fall

4) Interstate 70 from Denver to the Utah State line

5) US 1 from Miami to Key West.

The Wife and I did number 5. Took us 7hrs to get there on Memorial Day weekend. Stop at Ricky's for something to eat. Good food.