Sunday, October 27, 2013

Travel day. Bend to Mammoth Lakes

For the drive from Oregon to Mammoth Lakes, California we decided to take US-97 to OR-39/CA-139, to US-395. This was the route recommended by the Good Sam RV Route Planner.


We were wrong! My recommendation is not to take this path. Oh, it was great at the beginning but is soon as we hit Nevada the fun stopped! More often than I could count, the freeway diverted through some sort of pop up town. Highway speeds became 20 mile an hour school zone speed. At one point, the freeway completely ended and the rest of the drive was through the mountains with semi-trucks on a single lane road.


Because of all the different diversions our 9-hour trip took over 12-hours.
So unless…
* You enjoy highway names and numbers changing at a whim.
* You never want to use your cruise control because of the speed fluctuations.
* You enjoy never ending pop-up towns.
* You want to drive the scary mountain road with semi trucks in the dark.
* You don't mind spending an extra three hours on your drive.
And, most importantly…
* You don't mind the possible trip to DIVORCE COURT.

Then I highly recommend an alternate route or just "Keep calm and carry on"

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