Slow roads - are you a fan?

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.

If I'm not in a rush.... absolutely. I commonly try to take different routes to get somewhere.

I used to drive them a lot. Now that I drive 110miles to work it's interstate and hwy.

I'm a solid backroad driving gal.

Look at my chevy lookin out thread.lol

I could get to work on a faster route but I prefer the backroads... even if I do have to leave an extra 20 minutes early.

Backroads definitely keep me sane..and I stop and.pick up cans along the way too most trips.

It's scary run..were kinda....I dunno...alike???

Cathryn, I missed the Chevy looking out thread. I'm going to look it up.

Love taking the scenic route!

It depends where I am going. On longer trips I usually take the quickest route till I get bored. Then I do a backroad stint to clear my mind for a while.

I always take the back roads. I avoid the state hwys as much as possible.
I drive at 40-45mph am in no rush.
Being retired and having the time makes a big difference.

it used to drive my wife nuts I new every county road and I had ways to get close to the same time getting to my parents , from having done a lot of Friday night commutes back to my parents house for the weekend.

what was the point of going 65 jsut to sit in a pile up for 40 minutes as you got the interchange , a pleasant relaxed drive through the corn was much easier.

Yep, all back roads for me unless I'm heading far away.

I agree 100%. I'm retired too and have nothing but time on my hands. I usually drive 30mph on the back roads around here. Most back roads are gravel and full of potholes. And going slower you can see animals easier. And besides at my age I have only 1 speed. SLOW!!

I'm with the majority here, it appears. I'm headed over to the Snake River Canyon tomorrow for some catfishing. I've no choice on most of the way but to take paved roads. Wherever I can, though, I take to the dirt. It's 380 miles but takes me all day, with a significant part of the drive at 25 mph. However, no other traffic (sometimes, another truck or two). I catch snakes, watch birds and coyotes. I avoid interstates at all costs.

Jack

Been thinking of you, Jack, with all the rain and snow in the high country , all down your way too.

I hope you see the habitat flourishing in the moisture , in a way that is interesting and different for you.

Big snow even now in all the high peaks for some days now.

Yes, I will always learn the back roads and alternate routes wherever I may be. However I despise slow roads and the drivers that make them slow. Roads are for getting somewhere so get out of my way.

This!

Keith

It's tough to drive fast with those binos over your eyes!!

The scenic Blue Ridge Parkway passes though the south side of Asheville. When I need to go east or west around town, I prefer to use the Parkway. Speed limit is 35 or 45 but no stoplights or intersections.

Yes, I enjoy slow roads very much.

Slow roads are great for riding horses on. Have enjoyed many of them.

Though I'm also known for riding right down the main streets in towns too. Have never had anyone object , people wave and I wave back. Everyone seems to like the nostalgia of a horseman no matter where they are.

Even people in downtown New York City like the sight of mounted police and carriage tour drafts !

Every road on a horse is a "slow road "

Thank you, slow road fans for contributing to the thread.

I frequently do. Better scenery, better food at those Mom/Pop places, bargains to be had at the yard sales and rural stores.

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.

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.

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.

Whoa Dude, slow down, enjoy the scenery, learn to relax, don't be working yourself into a heart attack.

I bet you have an exorbitant gasoline bill?

I am told it is a slow road when I am driving.

Backroads for me, cty. hwy, and cty. roads, dirt roads, nice scenery.

I take the back roads. Jerry Sallie. Good song.

[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. [/quote

Huck. You NEVER know where you are. Lol

And me thinks your reputation proceeded ya with her dad.

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.

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.

That's me. exept for the stop for cans part.

I'm ok with other people not stopping for cans. More cans for me. LOL.

Just took the 3 year old to daycare. He picks between the short and long “bumpy way” (gravel). We can take paved roads all the way, but he prefers the backroads. Teach em young.

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.

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 .

30mph on a 55mph two lane ain't cool. Not when I'm in the quarter mile long backup behind you trying to get somewhere.

That happened today.

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.

Here we call it going on tour. Grab a 6 pack and drive the backroads. Nothing too crazy!