{"id":1885,"date":"2012-06-10T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2012-06-10T01:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T06:14:29","slug":"a-long-way-for-new-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/a-long-way-for-new-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"A long way for new roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1886\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IN80exit11_65.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IN80exit11_65.jpg 385w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IN80exit11_65-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/>\u00a0<em>June 24, 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now that I have finished traveling my last interstate in northern Illinois, I encounter one of the unfortunate side effects of roadgeeking: It can take a really long time to drive to somewhere new.<\/p>\n<p>Newton County, Indiana, south of I-80\/90 on I-65, is now my closest remaining untouched county accessible via interstate. I-65 there is my closest untraveled interstate.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, for points both south and east, I&#8217;m looking at a good <em>six hours<\/em> of driving before reaching new stuff. I-35E north of St. Paul is &#8220;only&#8221; four.\u00a0My nearest untouched county, period, is 3 hours and 45 minutes away in eastern Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/category\/192568\/radar\">KWWL radar map<\/a>\u00a0in the HD era extends all the way to I-65 in western Indiana. While\u00a0I believe I&#8217;ve traveled every road visible on maps for every other station in Iowa and many of the surrounding markets, a local one still eludes me. A roadgeek&#8217;s work is never done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0June 24, 2007 Now that I have finished traveling my last interstate in northern Illinois, I encounter one of the unfortunate side effects of roadgeeking: It can take a really long time to drive to somewhere new. Newton County, Indiana, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/a-long-way-for-new-roads\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","category-trip-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}