Just a very general comment, and years out of date....
We did a lot of travelling in the 1980s, camping for weeks as far off the main roads as we could without 4-wheel drive. We started from Texas, spiraled out through NM, CO, Smoky Mountain area, then up and down the West Coast, usually on Hwy 1. We never had any problems (did a LOT of map study), so we must have been doing something right. Spent a lot of time around Nederland, CO. Various highway maps, Forest Service topo maps, etc.
Between I-5 and 101, say from Mendocino north, things got strange by our standards. Also in Western WA, iirc. In the non-coastal states, if a road was shown as paved, that usually meant it was a pretty good road in other respects also, and had a bit of traffic. Out here they pave something a goat would use once every 10 years for logging. :-) And there seemed to be a different standard about where and how they even BUILT roads.
My point is that things do differ from one area to another -- including, I suspect, map conventions. The judgment that has worked in one area may not work in another -- even within the US.
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Date: 2006-12-18 10:36 pm (UTC)We did a lot of travelling in the 1980s, camping for weeks as far off the main roads as we could without 4-wheel drive. We started from Texas, spiraled out through NM, CO, Smoky Mountain area, then up and down the West Coast, usually on Hwy 1. We never had any problems (did a LOT of map study), so we must have been doing something right. Spent a lot of time around Nederland, CO. Various highway maps, Forest Service topo maps, etc.
Between I-5 and 101, say from Mendocino north, things got strange by our standards. Also in Western WA, iirc. In the non-coastal states, if a road was shown as paved, that usually meant it was a pretty good road in other respects also, and had a bit of traffic. Out here they pave something a goat would use once every 10 years for logging. :-) And there seemed to be a different standard about where and how they even BUILT roads.
My point is that things do differ from one area to another -- including, I suspect, map conventions. The judgment that has worked in one area may not work in another -- even within the US.