Digging up an old thread
Was poking around in the very bottom of the thread pile and came across this one. Since I've been back there recently (almost a month ago now); I thought I'd comment!
t_chelle16 said:
I can guarantee that the roads around my part of Missouri are a far cry from great.
-Chelle
I dunno, over on the other side of MO that roads seemed pretty good. Surface streets right around the north side of St Louis Airport were a little rough; but the short bits of I-70 and I-270 were pretty nice! I-44 was cool.....I was flying along at a pretty good clip (75-80 in the 75 zones) along about midnight - only thing that seemed rough was the view out the window of my rented econo-box at the wheel lugs of semi's (at
eye level) getting closer and closer on curves.
I even started to fall asleep! Decided
that was probably a bad thing so I whipped into a reast area somewhere around Doolittle. Couldn't find any animals to talk to (Bad pun, but I couldn't resist), so I rolled the seat back and caught some Zzzzz's.
I woke up from my 4 hour nap because the sun in my face pried my eyes open at 0540 - 20 minutes before the alarm would have awakened me
Got back on the road and, after the first couple of turns, decided that Chelle was right in warning me before I left; the pavement may be good but the drivers were a little left of center. 75 MPH on that curvy mountain road seemed a little bit much for this old road warrior driving what Alamo Rent-a-Wreck called a midsize and Chebbie called a Malibu Classic; but didn't seem all that much larger (or even as big as) a Focus!
And when I looked out at the lug nuts and couldn't look up high enough to see the
top of the Kenworth; I started driving like I was a motorhome with Missouri plates
in Arizona!
The only really rough road I saw was the entire section of Highway "Z" between I-44 and the main gate of Ft Wood. Under contruction, looked like it had been for a while; and there was one pothole outside my motel that made me think I would need a rescue chopper to get out if it decided to swallow my Hoop-ty
But all the other roads around the greater Waynesville/St Robert metroplex were actually nice!
By the way; I was off by a year in my guesstimate of how long it would take before they tore up and repaved (again) the State Highway intersection and roads right outside my neighborhood.
It wasn't two years.
They should be finishing up the two-month-long repave this coming Wednesday.
I hope.