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It's a Dam Big Country

It’s a Big Dam Country — Final

8 June 2009

Some inter­est­ing num­bers and ran­dom obser­va­tions:
Total miles: 6804
Gal­lons of gas: 257
Aver­age price/gallon: $2.69
Aver­age MPG: 26.47
(i’m skep­ti­cal but con­sid­er­ing the cruise con­trol was in use for most of the non-photo-op dri­ving it could be pos­si­ble.)
Hotels: 14
Pho­tographs: 3133
Spent on road food: $376.86
Blog Posts: 22 (not count­ing the chicken update)
Hard dri­ves pur­chased: 1 — 320G
Dams vis­ited: 19
Con­flu­ences seen: 1
Confluences […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 25

7 June 2009

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 24

6 June 2009

Not so much a trip report as a weather report.
There’s weather approach­ing from the north­west (hello canada, hello snow) and I’m head­ing, um, north­west. Some­where the snow and I are going to meet. I was just hop­ing to pick the spot.
I chose Billings, MT.
So off I went.
I did stop in Malta, briefly. There was a classic […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 23

5 June 2009

From Minot, ND to Glas­gow, MT. Cool, over­cast. It didn’t actu­ally rain but it was very threat­en­ing.
Hwy 2 is often an inter­est­ing road in that it varies between two-lane and newly divided four-lane. This occa­sion­ally leads to con­fus­ing lane strip­ing on the por­tion that used to be two-lane.
I stopped at the Wal-Mart in Williston. […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 22

4 June 2009

Oh my, it’s a windy damn coun­try. Blow­ing hard enough that the upwind car door is almost too heavy to open. Yipes.
I was plan­ning on two dams today but only made one. Saw a lot of other stuff instead.
All along the roads there are trees planted as wind breaks and planted in between the trees […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 21

4 June 2009

Spent much of today vac­il­lat­ing between ‘I want to be home right now — how fast can i get there?’ and ‘the inter­state is killing me — how much extra time will it take?’
Some­where around Sergeant’s Bluff IA I had the motorists’ equiv­a­lent of a flash­back freak-out and took the first north bound turn off […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 20

2 June 2009

Much dri­ving. 525 miles.
Left Cape Girardeau at 9:30. Hung on to the inter­state through St. Louis and a bit north to Win­field. I went look­ing for the Win­field ferry ter­mi­nal. I found the ter­mi­nal — sort of. The ferry wasn’t run­ning today.
There were a bunch of houses on stilts. A lot of con­struc­tion going on too.
The dam […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 19

1 June 2009

Wow. Day 19.
Okay, it wasn’t much of a wow day.
From Louisville, KY to Cape Girardeau, MO via a scenic round the barn tour of Hoosier National For­est and Santa Claus, IN.
I meant to visit the Can­nel­ton Lock and Dam in Can­nel­ton, IN and the New­burgh Lock and Dam in New­burgh, IN.
I never made it to […]

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It’s a Big Dam Country — Day 18

31 May 2009

In Louisville all day today. Picked my Mom up around 9am. We didn’t stop until 4:30.
Began the day with a trip to the McAlpine Locks. Right in the mid­dle of the city. Louisville has done a good job of mak­ing use of the water­front. It’s a large, pleas­ant, pedes­trian and bicy­cle friendly space. It’s not so […]

Tagged as: louisville zoo, mcalpine lock and dam

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It’s A Big Dam Country — Extra #1

30 May 2009

To answer yesterday’s ques­tion about how the water moves into and out of locks. Valves and grav­ity.
Orig­i­nal at the Army Corps of Engineers.

Tagged as: locks

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