"Josh Battles" <josh.lists@omg-stfu.com> wrote:
: On Wed, April 26, 2006 12:16 pm, Jason Bleazard wrote:
:> However, in our case, it might work out better. We'd have to go through
:> Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Kansas City, but we'd avoid part of
:> Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago, Denver and the huge toll stretch of I-80/90
:> through northern Ohio and Indiana. I dunno... we went I-70 one year, and I
:> thought St. Louis was a pretty big mess. Maybe because we got a hotel in the
:> area, and picked part of town that was under heavy construction. I'm more
:> familiar with the I-80 route, so I'll probably stick with that. Depends on
:> how bad the Ohio tolls are. Plus, it's slightly further north, so I can hope
:> that it might be a bit cooler. :-)
: The OH tolls aren't bad at all. It might get a little backed up exiting the
: state but that all depends on when you get to the border.
Ohio might not be, but they'd also have to go through Indiana and
Illinois, and I know from personal experience that there are some tolls
somewhere along that stretch which are absolutely ridiculous, especially
if you are towing a trailer. We sold a house for an over the road trucker
a few years back and happened to be talking to him about that stretch - he
said that a lot of the big rigs will actually get off the interstate and
run local roads for a while to avoid those tolls. (They were bad enough
with a trailer behind a dually, I can only imagine what they would run for
an 18 wheeler! That is likely not a bill for the faint of heart ...or
the short on vaseline!) ;-)
:> This is out of the way, but there is a Pony Express museum in Wyoming. Also,
:> Kansas has some huge monument to The Wizard of Oz. I don't remember exactly,
:> it was something like a series of 50-foot-tall statues of the main characters
:> or something. I read about it and decided a 50-foot-tall Tinman would just
:> be
:> disturbing, so we didn't stop to see it.
: That actually might be worth seeing. I get a kick out of creepy stuff like
: that.
That's creeeeeepy! :-)
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