Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/15/22 11:22 AM
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I used to know every back road and roadside black raspberry patch for miles. Since moving here 8 years ago I am slowly learning all over again. Even using my old GPS I have found some county roads that just dead end into a cotton field and have to back track as you can't get there from here. I also found the raspberries are hardly any found in my travels but there are tons of black berries.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/15/22 01:47 PM
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J Staton
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J Staton
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Going to and from the Smoky Mountains in east TN. I traveled through 6 states not including TN or AR. I'm a fan when I can.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/15/22 03:32 PM
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Dirty D
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Roads are for getting somewhere so get out of my way. Whoa Dude, slow down, enjoy the scenery, learn to relax, don't be working yourself into a heart attack.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/15/22 10:22 PM
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I am told it is a slow road when I am driving.
"Not Really, Not Really" Mark J Monti "MJM you're a jerk."
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
[Re: il.trapper]
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06/16/22 09:04 AM
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[quote=il.trapper]Unless on a long trip I seldom ever use an interstate. I take all the back roads I can in my daily travels. Which is a lot. Drives my wife nuts sometimes as she never knows where we are. LOL Sharon, back in the 70's I bought a small black pony and cart. I would drive her all over the small town I lived near. Even was in the local paper sitting at the drive through window at the bank. LOL Also had a white mare broke to pull. I rebuilt a sleigh while in HS and went to see my girlfriend one day in the sleigh. About a ten mile trip. We rode that sleigh for hours and again was in the local papers. LOL Her dad wasn't impressed though. He hated me for some reason. [/quoteHuck. You NEVER know where you are. Lol And me thinks your reputation proceeded ya with her dad.
IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
[Re: il.trapper]
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06/16/22 10:55 AM
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Unless on a long trip I seldom ever use an interstate. I take all the back roads I can in my daily travels. Which is a lot. Drives my wife nuts sometimes as she never knows where we are. LOL
Sharon, back in the 70's I bought a small black pony and cart. I would drive her all over the small town I lived near. Even was in the local paper sitting at the drive through window at the bank. LOL
Also had a white mare broke to pull. I rebuilt a sleigh while in HS and went to see my girlfriend one day in the sleigh. About a ten mile trip. We rode that sleigh for hours and again was in the local papers. LOL Her dad wasn't impressed though. He hated me for some reason. That was fun for you, I'm sure ! In many countries, and this country too, seeing carts and wagons pulled by drafts and mule drafts are a useful and enjoyable sight. In this country, the carts are most often in tours of scenic city or big town areas, while the wagons are still time honored in transporting barrels of beer to pubs in other countries. Not a few stories of the driver falling asleep or getting distracted , and the team walking on to their next pub stop, right on time , doing their whole route then walking back to their barns, with no driver For myself, it has been really fun stopping in front of my hairdresser's big front window and waving hello, tooling through the local gas station, or in other larger towns, stopping in the drive through to pick up some food on the go . Right in the middle of traffic all round. It's almost like the bikers in traffic, only better.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/16/22 11:40 AM
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There is no such thing here. There is One road that connects the towns.Its called the Trans Canada highway. Then there are logging roads,bush roads, winter roads,and trapping trails that dont go anywhere except into the bush,and normally pass by numerous lakes before ending at a big river or just turn into a winter road/trail on the other side.etc.and keep going.
Last edited by Boco; 06/16/22 11:42 AM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/16/22 07:09 PM
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Does anyone prefer back roads? I do. They seem to offer better scenery and hopefully less traffic. Please share your thoughts. I know I am not the only back road fan on trapperman. Thank you for your time. Sometimes I stop and pick up aluminum cans if there is a safe place to pull off. I know back roads are not necessarily the most direct route but I think it helps my sanity, LOL. That's me. exept for the stop for cans part.
Last edited by upstateNY; 06/16/22 07:10 PM.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/17/22 07:09 AM
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I'm ok with other people not stopping for cans. More cans for me. LOL.
wanna be goat farmer.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/17/22 04:53 PM
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My lady calls it "Boondockin" Hardest decision is deciding what direction to travel that weekend. She all ways says the best life starts , where the pavement ends.
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/17/22 05:03 PM
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Used to love the two trackers years ago , but hard to find even a gravel road around here any more . Have to go a few hundred miles to get to good back roads any more .
We have met the enemy and the enemy is us!
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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06/18/22 06:20 PM
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If your traveling the back road two lane 55mph and drive 30mph and hold up traffic, pull over let all the others by.
Apparently you are not in a hurry to go from A to B, like some others.
Last edited by seniortrap; 06/18/22 06:21 PM.
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"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction." "After the first shot, all plans go out the window!"
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Re: Slow roads - are you a fan?
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#7607900
06/18/22 07:13 PM
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Here we call it going on tour. Grab a 6 pack and drive the backroads. Nothing too crazy!
Cold as ice!
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