Sully2 wrote: People will travel the routes that please THEM the most but I personally only gawk at the "scenery" when Ive set up camp for the evening...NOT while Im operating my MoHo.. And if you have ever driven off the edge of the road onto the berm..ever..for any reason...Im MUCH prefer to run a tire onto a gravel berm thats 6 feet to 10 feet WIDE..as compared to NO BERM...or some 10" wide berm that typical state highways have.
Once you get on ( route) with its no berm and 10 foot wide lanes and you come upon ( going your way or comeing at you) some farmers combine with a 24-30 foot wide grain head on it...and since your towing you CANT back up...you'll never travel some secondary road ever again!
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Sully2 wrote: People will travel the routes that please THEM the most but I personally only gawk at the "scenery" when Ive set up camp for the evening...NOT while Im operating my MoHo.. And if you have ever driven off the edge of the road onto the berm..ever..for any reason...Im MUCH prefer to run a tire onto a gravel berm thats 6 feet to 10 feet WIDE..as compared to NO BERM...or some 10" wide berm that typical state highways have.
Once you get on ( route) with its no berm and 10 foot wide lanes and you come upon ( going your way or comeing at you) some farmers combine with a 24-30 foot wide grain head on it...and since your towing you CANT back up...you'll never travel some secondary road ever again!
I think what Sully is referring to is the lack of shoulder on some two lanes and he is correct in that regard. I have had some real testy times in the wind on some two lanes--Southern Kansas comes to mind, where there literally was no shoulder on the road and the road was some five to ten feet above the borrow. There was literally no place to get off the road--no wide spots for many miles.
That condition doesn't happen often but you can be driving along on a perfectly wide two lane and then have the shoulders literally end for all practical purposes.
Further, some two lanes are very narrow--I took Indiana 62 from Madison to Cross Plains and that was absolutely no road for a motorhome as I found out when meeting a group of motorcyclists coming down a hill on a curve--they were in their lane but I needed part of it to make the curve I was on--I got a bridge abutment big time!
Those kinds of experiences are few and far between in my limited experience. Most two lanes are fine to drive at a leisurely pace and I do enjoy the scenery more--simply because I only have to watch what is going on ahead of me most of the time--on interstates, I guess I worry too much about the endless stream of 18 wheelers that are passing me, the four wheelers cutting in and out, and the heavy traffic meeting me in the opposite lanes--too much information to sort out--tiring for me.
Like most things, it is all a matter of personal preference--I'm rarely on any kind of a schedule when we travel so we have the time and take it. Others don't have that luxury and more power to them if they prefer the interstates.
OK, I can see that. I guess we've been pretty lucky except like I said before in New England on some tight narrow, low clearance roads. The two lane roads we travel are usually decent roads however some don't have much in the way of shoulders. Rt. 89 from Flagstaff to Montana is an example. It's a beautiful ride with excellent views all the way. Rt. 1 in northern CA is one I won't do again in this coach. We did it in a 40' and it was hairy in spots. Beautiful views though.
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And if you have ever driven off the edge of the road onto the berm..ever..for any reason...Im MUCH prefer to run a tire onto a gravel berm thats 6 feet to 10 feet WIDE..as compared to NO BERM...or some 10" wide berm that typical state highways have.
