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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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