Road Trip!

[datsunaholic]

Apparently they do- there's the New Madrid Historical Museum (sometimes called the New Madrid Earthquake Museum). I drove through New Madrid on I-55, but didn't stop (actually, I don't know if I stopped or not, I know overnighted somewhere between Evansville and Little Rock, but seeing as I got to the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum an hour before they opened, I had to have been fairly close to Little Rock). There's a restaurant in New Madrid where you can get an "Earthquake Burger- with the bun split on the top. I had to look that up.

[rubato]

I have never been in the SE corner of Missouri. I believe that is where Sparrowgrass, from the old board, was located. Do they have any monuments to the New Madrid earthquake that shook church bells in Boston?

snailgate

The Church Belles of Boston
With Noses so Blue.
Are shaken quite easily.
Shocked through and through.


yrs,
rubato (That Homer guy wasn't so hot. I could have taken him.)

[wesw]

I m with BP on this one.

I find it more pleasant to fully enjoy one place, rather than blitzkriegging thru a vacation or an area....

I don t get cruises ....

[Jarlaxle]

The only thing in NY they visit is the Statue of Liberty?
No Finger Lakes?
No Adirondack Park?
The Grand Canyon of the East

I felt the same way when I read that the only listed Wisconsin stop was Frank Lloyd Wright's "Taliesin" historical site in southwest Wisconsin, near Spring Green.  But then I read their "rules"....
From the original post:

The rules were simple: All 48 contiguous states must be visited, stops are only allowed at National sites (parks, monuments, etc.) and the entire car trip must stay within the confines of the U.S. borders.

The Finger Lakes region, Adirondack Park, etc. would not have been acceptable stops given those qualifications — although it appears that the route drives through the northernmost parts of the Finger Lakes, just as they are passing through the "Driftless Region" (that part of the upper Midwest that pretty much got missed by the glacial ice sheets of the last great Ice Age) while on their route from Minnesota to Taliesin to the Iowa border.

-"BB"-

Isn't Fort Ticonderoga a national park, or national historic site?

[Jarlaxle]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Stop and smell the roses. This exercise was about a road trip to touch every one of the contiguous 48 states in the shortest travel distance. What is actually seen or experienced was very secondary. I could argue that one could have very pleasant experiences spending the same amount of time walking around New Castle County Delaware. I had a friend who had lots of money
(net worth over 10 million 15 years ago when he died) He had a bad heart and spent hours walking each day. He once told me he did not understand why people spent money to go on walking tours of Wales or Scotland or Ireland when there was so much to see walking around here in Northern Delaware.

We all have exactly the same amount of time in each day. We all 'spend' that time in different ways for different motivations. Now me, I would love to do that trip described in this thread. But I would skip West from Kansas City Kansas to make it to Wichita and say hello to MG Mechanic.

There is an informal association of motorcyclists who try to do something like this in the shortest total time. They call themselves 'The Iron Butts"

snailgate

I'm considering doing an IBA ride next year...either a SS1000, or a BB1500.