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America's Scariest Highways
YAHOO Travel ^ | By Tim Kiladze

Posted on 05/26/2010 7:26:55 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

Mark Sedenquist and Megan Edwards' California home was destroyed by a forest fire in 1993. Instead of rebuilding, the couple bought an RV and took to the open road, traveling across the U.S. and Canada for almost seven years.

The couple has since settled in Las Vegas, but they continue to take driving vacations and encourage others to do the same on their website, RoadTrip America, which they run through Flattop Productions, their small business. Sedenquist and Edwards estimate they've traveled over 650,000 miles.

(Excerpt) Read more at travel.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: highways; roads
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To: dirtboy

yes. i grew up in denver.


21 posted on 05/26/2010 7:45:12 AM PDT by ken21 (i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
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To: US Navy Vet

You want a scary road?...Just drive down any Seattle hill when its 25 degrees with black ice trying to get to work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ft097tgr0&feature=related


22 posted on 05/26/2010 7:45:25 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: US Navy Vet

Looks like a list of America’s most beautiful highways in the Western United States.

You want scary?
- Try Cleveland’s deadman’s curve during rush hour.
- Or driving home through the South Bronx and the burning cars on I95 at 10 pm.
- Or Boston’s Big Dig tunnels. ‘Nuff said.
- Or I4 thru Orlando with its mix of elderly, confused tourists and uninsured illegals
- The daunting Springfield interchange on the south side of Washington DC


23 posted on 05/26/2010 7:45:39 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Dogfaced Soldier

I wuz thinking about runs like that too. Parts of the Bronx and Detroit at night in the summer.


24 posted on 05/26/2010 7:45:57 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

SW Washington DC.


25 posted on 05/26/2010 7:47:07 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

SW—>SE


26 posted on 05/26/2010 7:47:30 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2
I drove a 16' uhaul pulling a double axle uhaul trailer from Aberdeen SD to Evanston WY in January of 2009. It was 34 below when we left during a "ground blizzard" and by the time we got to Evanston (about 950 miles) it was 23 above and felt downright balmy.

We were able to go the speed limit in SD even with the heavy cross winds because there was no traffic and the road was straight.

This was taken at about 55 mph going over the Missouri river.


27 posted on 05/26/2010 7:47:54 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: dirtboy

Want more fun. Try the “Million Dollar Highway” from Ouray, CO to Silverton, CO. One of the fun things to tell tourists is to check out the white line on the drop off side. (The white line is half gone in spots, where did it go? Straight down...) No guardrails, either.

Oh and did I mention the memorial to the snowplow operators that have died plowing the highway?


28 posted on 05/26/2010 7:49:19 AM PDT by Illuminatas (Obama - Dumber Than Bush!)
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To: US Navy Vet
50 is not scary and part of the point is not seeing anyone. I drive it all the time going hunting and I like just like it is. You want scary go back 25 years to Highway 17 to Santa Cruz from Los Gatos.
29 posted on 05/26/2010 7:49:21 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't go chasing waterfalls.....)
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To: dirtboy

Beartooth Pass would be exciting too, but it’s closed in Winter.


30 posted on 05/26/2010 7:49:25 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

That has been one of my all time favorite “car crash” video’s from youtube!


31 posted on 05/26/2010 7:51:10 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Paladin2
I would say any freeway in Massachusetts considering how bad they drive there.
32 posted on 05/26/2010 7:54:45 AM PDT by mrsixpack36
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To: US Navy Vet

Mount Evans Road (Colorado 103)South past the Ranger station. Snoqualmie Pass during a blinding rain..


33 posted on 05/26/2010 7:55:12 AM PDT by cardinal4 (In Obama Land, it is racist to be white..)
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To: Dogfaced Soldier

MLK blvd in Baltimore.


34 posted on 05/26/2010 7:56:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: RobRoy

Thing about Seattle driving that I hated was it could be fine on one side of the hill and an ice shute on the other side...


35 posted on 05/26/2010 7:56:56 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: RobRoy

I learned to say to heck with it!...STAY HOME!


36 posted on 05/26/2010 7:58:04 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: US Navy Vet

I-75 through Detroit without getting shot


37 posted on 05/26/2010 7:59:39 AM PDT by Eddie01 (All we every really knew was it was crazy to be doin' it any other way)
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To: kidd

The Mixing Bowl in Springfield isn’t as bad as it used to be since they re-did it, but before that...yeah. The highway engineer that designed that monstrosity needed to be strung up.

I’ll add another—US 129 south out of Alcoa, TN through the Nantahala National Forest down to where it meets US 19/74 in North Carolina. The views are spectacular and the road is terrifying, not least because of the sheer number of bikes and sports cars that try to drive it like it’s the Nurburgring. There’s a reason they call the stretch near the TN/NC border the “Tail of the Dragon”...try 318 curves in an 11-mile stretch.

}:-)4


38 posted on 05/26/2010 8:02:27 AM PDT by Moose4 (November 2, 2010--the day that "YES WE CAN" becomes "OH NO YOU DIN'T")
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To: Paladin2; All

US6, I assume you mean Loveland Pass, is usually closed in winter...hazardous cargoes are allowed over, weather permitting, so as not to stop traffic in the adjacent Eisenhower Tunnel; however, I70 through the Colorado Rockies has rockslides, animals on the highway, extreme grades, extreme weather, avalanches, torrential rains,flash floods, horrendous lightning storms, whiteout blizzards, OUT-OF-STATE drivers lol and who knows what else. Not scary, indeed...from a Denver resident since 1965


39 posted on 05/26/2010 8:02:58 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Vote Republican! We're 1/10 of 1% better than the other guys!)
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To: US Navy Vet
610 West Loop & Hwy 59 - Houston
40 posted on 05/26/2010 8:06:05 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( - Free Men will always be armed with the Truth. -)
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