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“I’m in for my rightful share of the Hypotenuse Goodies”
I'm glad you (1) had a safe trip and (2) I'll bet you're glad it's over - but think of the memory's. You have joined the "trail blazers" - the ones that pioneered cross-country auto traveling from 1903 on, Dr. Horatio Jackson, Mrs. Alice Ramsey and even Emily Post. Heady company, isn't it. Or you can go back to the walking or wagon days - and you've joined the likes of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and the mountain men who opened up all sorts of territories for us to explore. And, oh yes, we shouldn't forget the King Traveler of the "blue" highways - William Least-Heat Moon. Maybe YOU should write a book LOL. But you certainly had it easier than those folks.
You learned something about this country of ours - and that's something most people don't have a clue about. Thanks for the sharing with your posts.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Ok, now whose going to do the "other" Hypotenuse - San Diego to Houlton, Maine????
Curiously, the "as-the-crow-flies" distances, drawing straight lines, is, from Miami to Seattle, 2,740 miles; from San Diego to Houlton, 2,750!!!!! The lines cross somewhere in western Kansas.
If I had the money I wouldn't mind doing it. But gas prices have got to drop by at least a dollar a gallon.
Glad you had a good, safe and sane trip Dave. Have enjoyed following you across country.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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I'm not sure which photo I like the best - the truck, the store or the dog. Ok, ok, I'm an old car nut - but the dog and the general store tie for 2nd. LOL
What would be really neat is to have made your drive in the '29 Dodge!!!!
Safe traveling and enjoy.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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A fall curise would be nice - I might be able to make that one. Of course, gas prices will probably be $6 (or higher) a gallon (unless the pending election brings them down), but who knows.
Right now, I'm saving pennies (nickles, diimes and quarters) for a trip to my Hudson car club National meet in Massachusetts in July - and not sure if gas prices are going to let me do that.
We shall see what we shall see - I would like to make one of these road rambles sometime. If only for having the pleasure of putting some faces to names I find here on the forum.
Safe travels.
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Oh yeah - I'd wager a months retirement pay that that is an original pump. Repro's don't rust like that. What you looking at is a "retirement" pump. Get your hands on it, put it on ebay and you can retire off what you could make - if you wanted to do it that way.
It's hard to tell from your photos, but I think that's one of those that you pumped gas into the globe to a marked level - 1 gal, 2 gal, 3 gal, up to probably 5 gal I'd say with that pump - using a hand pump from, usually a 55 gallon drum of gas. Then you gravity fed to the car's gas tank, usually thru the same hose.
Love your "post card" shots - there's a lot of empty country out there for sure.
Safe traveling.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Add my congratulations to the list. Great photographs.
Only one thing I might suggest, if possible. I'm one of these who likes to look at a photograph, and find something that tells where, or what, it is. Like on the intro photo. Just a short "between such and such a place" or some such.
Will certainly add that site to my bookmarks so I can check back now and again.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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And did the cost of your treat at the drugstore reflect the 1947 prices??? LOL
That shot of the mountains is indeed spectacular - could make a small fortune making that into a post card.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Ok, it happens when you change computers.
Next observation - what about it happens on the same computer, as I said earlier, for a couple of weeks. Then all of a sudden, one day, it remembers the log-in, as it did before.
Me thinks one of them gremlins be at work.
In any event it's a minor inconvience - except if you're like me and have trouble remembering where you live if your gone more than 2 days. Trying to remember login names and passwords can be trying at times.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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It is said, that one can stand on the old trail, on a dark and quiet night, and hear the crack of the wagoneers whips and the soft lowing of cattle and oxen, as ghostly wagons move west.
But maybe that's just tourist hype - or not.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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In the past week or so, I keep having to re-login to this site, both at work and at home. The site doesn't seem to be remembering me. I have cleared my cookies a couple times at work, but not at all at home, so I'm not sure why this would keep happening. Anyone else experiencing this?
Jim,
Some people are unforgetable - some are just forgetable.
I had that problem for about a week about 2 weeks back. Then one day it just started saving my login and so far has been ok.
But, then again, we all know computers are weird.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Hmmm - stopped for speeding in the middle of Nebraska - must have been a really slow day at the office for that nice policeman!!! Tho I strongly suspect your Florida tags had something to do with it - that mind set still exists in this country. The theory being that if you get issued a ticket you ain't gonna drive 2000 miles to show up in court to contest it. And most people will send in the fine - who knows which states have reciprocity. (Look that up in your Funk & Wagnals. In your case you lucked out.
Little story about reciprocity - back in the early 70's I was headed west on I-80 for somewhere or other. Somewhere, just into Ohio, there's a place in eastern Ohio where a couple interstates come together and I found myself caught between two 18 wheelers with another coming up behind - so I put the pedal to the metal as they say. As I cleared the trucks sure enough Mr. John Law was sitting beside the road bored to death. He pulled me over, I knew I was going to get a speeding ticket. But, no, I didn't. He got so interested in the fact that my Maine license was some 10 years out of date, he forgot all about the speeding ticket!!! And, despite the note on the back of my license which said the nice State of Maine, in recognition of my being in the military I did not need to renew my license until 30 days after discharge or separation, the cop gave me a ticket for an expired license. Later I got a letter from Maine stating that if I was still in the service forget about the ticket.
Safe travels and slow down a bit. hehehehehe
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Small town America - despite the media's insistence it is dead and gone, it appears you have found that it is alive and well. Just sleeping in the sun waiting for better days to come.
As for your adventure with a "local" you have evidently discovered another facet of todays small town America - that there are still places where people haven't gone more than 20 miles from home in their entire life time. We are so used to the idea of vacations that take us from Maine to Florida, from CA to WY, and everywhere in between, that we forget there are still people who live their lives as people did in the 1940's, 1950's and even into the 1960's. At home.
Safe, and interesting traveling.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Alex,
Some of the roads in northwestern Arkansas do remind me of the northeast. I regret I won't have time to produce a map until I get home. I have been busy from wake up to bed time. I am barely getting my "beauty sleep," and I need it!
More later!
Keep the Show on the Road!
Dave
They actually got roads iin nortwestern Arkansas??????????
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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I can't wait to hear what "old road" route you took to get from Hot Springs to Eureka Springs!!!!!!!!!! Should prove interesting.
I'm a tad familiar with that area and the routing must have been a doozy.
Interesting - straight line as the woodpecker flies is about 135 miles - road wise it's closer to 200 or so.
Looking at the maps it jogged my memory - I went thru Eureka Springs back in 1990 on the way from Memphis to Wichita. Took I-40 to Conway, then 65 to 62 thru Eureka Springs and to AR 37 to 60 over to 71. As I recall that section of 62 was a real "eastern" mountain road!!!
Safe traveling.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Consider yourself lucky you didn't have access to the old bridge at Vicksburg. Back in (yeah, yeah, here we go with a "back in" story!!) 1958, when I was stationed in Kingsville, TX, I was assigned, along with another great pretender to bring a couple big Navy trucks from Navy Millington to Kingsville.
Looked to me like the best route was down 61 to Vicksburg and then across the river. Damn that old bridge was narrow - I met a big civilian truck coming the other way and we both left parts of our left side mirrors in the middle of the bridge!!!
Seems like early bridge builders thought narrow was the way to go - try the bridges at Cairo sometime. Turn your hair gray early.
There's lots and lots of those old 1940 towns here in the south - Mississippi probably has more than anybody else. Some just havn't faded yet. I can show you U S 61 (OLD 61) between Memphis and Clarksdale where on the map there are a bunch of towns shown - like Robinsonville, Dundee, Newport and a couple others - that are on the map, but are now just a dusty crossroad that you can't identify as a town. They are - but they aren't.
Keep those great reports coming down the pike - we are enjoying every word.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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And I though I was cheap.............
Hey Starfire - I'm Scottish. Therefore I'm not cheap, I'm frugal!!!! LOL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Absolutely beautiful. Love these road trip reports - lets me travel without spending gas money!!!!
As the previous post said, keep 'em coming.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Is everybody sure it was an earthquake ----------- or Denny's snoring???????
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Memphis/Millington area, while I was out and about, gas prices range from $3.30-$3.38 for regular; $3.45-$3.52 mid-range and $3.60-$3.75 for premium. Diesel stands at around $4 everywhere.
There IS something we can do about it as follows:
1) Vote in a new administartion in November and hope THEY do something;
2) Everybody change their driving habits - not likely to happen as we Americans ARE going to do our thing and price be damned;
3) Shoot the speculators that are driving oil prices to Mars (well, it's a thought!!);
4) Truckers go on a National strike. Shut down the trucks and something's gonna happen real quick. Tha't's probably more of a possibility than 1 and 2. The independent truckers are already starting to park their rigs in some places. But as long as the trucking industry can pass on the added cost to us (we've felt it in the grocery store already) it'll be a while before a national strike happens.
The pot may come to a boil Memorial Day weekend. That's the first big travel weekend of the summer season and traditionally gas prices go up like a rocket powered elevator. I suspect prices will go over $4 a gallon and it should be interesting to see what happens. Motel owners should start burning their motels for the insurance money shortly.
I bought two gallons of gas for my lawn mower the other day - the gas is worth more than the mower!!!!
For myself - well, I go do all my errands on Friday, if possible. Rest of the week the car sits. I've got several road trips planned out around the area, but am putting those on hold for a while. I will still do pet transports - I have one to Brinkley, AR, on Sunday. That's about 125 mile round trip. But it's well worth it to help some pup get out of a bad situation and go on to a new and more loving (hopefully) home. And sometimes I can make a road trip out of it - like coming back from Brinkley I can use U S 70 (parallels I-40) so little, if any traffic to worry about.
Everybody take care and safe traveling.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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W. Memphis, AR to Gilmore, AR: SR-77 (Old US 63??)
Arkansas State Route 77 is, I'm convinced, old U S 61. This is based on old tour guide books and that the street, in Left, uh, West Memphis is Missouri Street.
It was probably a dual alignment for 63 from Turell into West Memphis and also 64 from Marion into W. Memphis. I havn't dug all that out yet.
CORRECTION:[b/] Dug thru a 1941 AAA Tour Book, Western Edition. This shows U S 64 coming into West Memphis via AR 147 to Lehi, then east on 70 into Memphis and then east across TN.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TNcorrection
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Folks do things a bit different out there in the wide open spaces. I remember a hand lettered sign posted on the doors of a motel we stayed at in Valentine, NE (when my daughter, KC, and I went out to the Black Hills) that said:
"There will be no cleaning of fish or game in the bathrooms".
Another sign I saw in Baker, MT, on my way to Miles City and Seattle proclaimed "Last gas for 92 miles." How right they were.
Only in the American West.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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May I suggest the following route Key West to Helena -
U S 1 Key West to Waycorss, GA (traffic may be a problem on some parts);
U S 82 Waycross, GA > Greenwood, MS - I used this route on the way to Columbus, MS, from Jacksonville, many times - admittedly 50 years ago. I would suspect it has been upgraded and should be a decent road to travel today.
U S 49E Greenwood to Clarksdale - the route Denny and I took the end of Dec - good road, light traffic
U S 61 north to Lula - turn west on U S 45 to Helena.
Alternative Florida West Coast:
U S 1 Key West to Miami
U S 27 Miami to High Springs
U S 41 High Springs to Tifton, GA - pickup U S 82 west in Tifton
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Well, I guess a 2003 Vette IS better than a 1939 Dodge coupe!!! But the Dodge, driven today, would add a touch of de ja vous, now, wouldn't it.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Alex
I’d like to buy a fellow American Roadie a cup of coffee….but I can’t set any specific time or even place right now. I’m hoping to connect with an old buddy in Mississippi, but I haven’t got a firm fix on the details.
I’ll be in touch via e-mail or personal message in transit and if a meet up works, let’s do it. If not, I’ll use your weather and road reports to steer clear of the Mississippi floods!
Keep the Show on the Road!
Dave
Ok, I can make Helena from here in about, oh, 1:45 and a 2 hours - depending on how long it takes me to get out of Memphis.
Hudsonly,
Alex B
Hypotenuse Trail Video Wonders, Vol 01
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You got's to know, Old Buddy - that Nebraska patrolman was out there just waiting bust the "Bandit"!!!! He got you instead. LOL ROFL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN