{"id":4338,"date":"2013-12-30T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:25:15","slug":"a-year-end-wrapup-of-my-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/a-year-end-wrapup-of-my-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"A year-end wrapup of my travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4339\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/End63blog.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/End63blog.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/End63blog-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>July 15, 2013:<\/strong> One of the highlights of my Upper Midwest trip was visiting the north end of &#8220;my&#8221; highway, US 63. However, construction prevented me from clinching the entire route in Wisconsin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As 2013 comes to a close, here are some of my state and highway accomplishments from this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting on New Year&#8217;s Day in Tennessee, I <a href=\"http:\/\/mob-rule.com\/user-gifs\/jeffm.gif\">added 77 counties in 11 states<\/a>, including my last ones in Illinois. The flip side of this, though, is that my nearest unvisited county is six hours away.<\/li>\n<li>In all, I traveled in 14 states, but in <em>both<\/em> Michigan&#8217;s Upper and Lower Peninsulas.<\/li>\n<li>Still close, but not quite, on every numbered road in Iowa. A few segments remain elusive for me.<\/li>\n<li>I traveled the entire signed Lincoln Highway in Iowa (and will put up photo galleries at some point, I hope).<\/li>\n<li>I went to my first SEC and Big Ten football games.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve added somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,600 miles of interstate highways in the past four years. I&#8217;m still not quite to half of the system, though, because miles keep getting added. (I-22 in the South will knock me down a lot.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4340\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LHbridgeCal.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LHbridgeCal.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LHbridgeCal-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 6, 2013:\u00a0<\/strong>1921 Lincoln Highway bridge near Calamus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I closed some gaps and clinched some states. More details are on <a href=\"http:\/\/cmap.m-plex.com\/stat\/travsummary.php?u=jeffm\">my page at Clinched Highway Mapping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve traveled every mile of mainline I-35. (I-35E in Dallas is still waiting.)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve traveled every interstate in Minnesota and Wisconsin (at least until Wisconsin signs I-41), for five total states with that distinction. A change to I-40 in Oklahoma City means I&#8217;m five miles short in the Sooner State.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve traveled all of I-94 east of Bismarck.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve traveled US 30 from Grand Island NE to Pittsburgh \u2014 and in all, I&#8217;m just shy of half of the entire transcontinental route.<\/li>\n<li>I closed my gap on I-90 in Cleveland, giving me that interstate from the middle of South Dakota to Albany, about 60% of the total.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve traveled I-70 from west of Denver to Frederick MD, after adding the I-55-to-Indianapolis stretch this year, but there will be a new part of that opening across the Mississippi River soon.<\/li>\n<li>Ohio is now the state with my third-highest interstate mileage \u2014 but even unfinished, I have 275 more miles there than in any Midwestern state I&#8217;ve clinched because there are more interstates there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4341\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/271and480.jpg\" width=\"476\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/271and480.jpg 476w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/271and480-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 1, 2013:<\/strong> The only duplexed 3-digit interstates in the nation, I-271 and I-480 in southeast suburban Cleveland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There was one other little milestone: I finally filled up the notebook I had been using to keep track of my travels since shortly after my car was stolen in 2003. That was back when gas was under $1.50 and it didn&#8217;t routinely cost six bucks to eat at Burger King.<\/p>\n<p>I had two big vacations this year, but at the moment it appears unlikely I&#8217;ll repeat such a feat on that scale in 2014. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2013: One of the highlights of my Upper Midwest trip was visiting the north end of &#8220;my&#8221; highway, US 63. However, construction prevented me from clinching the entire route in Wisconsin. 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