Driving Google

[bobpbx]

I have been having great fun and finding it very interesting to drive Google. I go to Google Maps, select a location and a good improved road and zoom into street view. If you push the oval shape far down the road and click it on the road, you move up very rapidly. Keep doing that, and it is as good as driving around.

It is a great way to see areas you know you'll never get to. Last week I was 80 miles East of El Paso, and then up around the New Mexican mountains. Tonite I am in Saskatchewan Canada. Great stuff.

 

[46er]

I have been having great fun and finding it very interesting to drive Google. I go to Google Maps, select a location and a good improved road and zoom into street view. If you push the oval shape far down the road and click it on the road, you move up very rapidly. Keep doing that, and it is as good as driving around.

It is a great way to see areas you know you'll never get to. Last week I was 80 miles East of El Paso, and then up around the New Mexican mountains. Tonite I am in Saskatchewan Canada. Great stuff.

Try a trip over the Beartooth Highway in Montana, it runs between Red Lodge and Cook City. I video taped the entrie trip last time there.

 

[manumuskin]

I drove going to the sun road in glacier national park on google last month.awesome.whip has done the north slope road from fairbanks to the arctic ocean.he raves about it but I think is favorite seems to be siberia,commie pinko

 

[46er]

I drove going to the sun road in glacier national park on google last month.awesome.whip has done the north slope road from fairbanks to the arctic ocean.he raves about it but I think is favorite seems to be siberia,commie pinko

We are headed to Glacier NP this summer

 

[bobpbx]

I drove going to the sun road in glacier national park on google last month.awesome.whip has done the north slope road from fairbanks to the arctic ocean.he raves about it but I think is favorite seems to be siberia,commie pinko

I actually drove that road from Fairbanks to the Yukon River. The rocks in the road are half-imbedded in the roadway, and they stick up like small football helmets, and the haul trucks drive like they are on a suicide mission.

 

[46er]

I read this article the last time I was at the barber.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/10q4/2010_ford_f-150_svt_raptor_6.2-road_test

 

[bobpbx]

I read this article the last time I was at the barber.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/10q4/2010_ford_f-150_svt_raptor_6.2-road_test

Very interesting article. And to think of all that raw land beyond where they stopped. This part is typical of some of the natives I suppose (when they were trying to help the guy in the tanker):

"The tanker moved not one inch. To my surprise, a southbound Chevy Silverado had pulled up, and I walked back to explain the situation. The driver was a Black Lake First Nation native, with muscled chest and forearms. He never turned his head to look at me. Eventually, I asked, “So, what do you think we should do?”

In a deep, throaty, Arnold-the-Terminator voice, he replied, “Leave him.” Then he selected a gear, navigated six-inch-deep slop to bypass the Raptor, and continued southbound at a clip I considered unwise.

As I stood ruminating mid-road, a colony of  black flies began feasting on my forearms, leaving red welts that resembled measles."

Yes, it is that bad up there I suppose. Still, I like just knowing the World still has all the wilderness, and even a couple days on that road (the good part) would please me. I like that desolate wilderness feeling that you get when you are out that far.

 

[46er]

Very interesting article. And to think of all that raw land beyond where they stopped. This part is typical of some of the natives I suppose (when they were trying to help the guy in the tanker):

"The tanker moved not one inch. To my surprise, a southbound Chevy Silverado had pulled up, and I walked back to explain the situation. The driver was a Black Lake First Nation native, with muscled chest and forearms. He never turned his head to look at me. Eventually, I asked, “So, what do you think we should do?”

In a deep, throaty, Arnold-the-Terminator voice, he replied, “Leave him.” Then he selected a gear, navigated six-inch-deep slop to bypass the Raptor, and continued southbound at a clip I considered unwise.

As I stood ruminating mid-road, a colony of  black flies began feasting on my forearms, leaving red welts that resembled measles."

Yes, it is that bad up there I suppose. Still, I like just knowing the World still has all the wilderness, and even a couple days on that road (the good part) would please me. I like that desolate wilderness feeling that you get when you are out that far.

One of my bucket list items is to drive to AK, that road has been tamed substantially though. A co-worker of my wife, a female, got a job in Anchorage, drove up there in her Saturn with just her cat, 2 Septembers ago. We are fortunate in that we only need travel to New England to feed the black flies

A friend from Jackson WY, again a female, spends spring to autumn in the thoroughfare region of the Yellowstone, reported to be the remotest place in the lower 48. Works the winter months to save for it and comes out only to resupply. Her pictures and stories are amazing.

 

[Ben Ruset]

I never even thought of driving on Google Maps.

 

[bobpbx]

I never even thought of driving on Google Maps.

Give it a whirl Ben. Tell us what you think.