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- From: ericm@microunity.com (Eric Murray)
- Subject: Re: Highways/Backroads with no speed limit
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.193104.4527@microunity.com>
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- Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
- References: <OH8043B@netmbx.netmbx.de> <1993Jan28.151656.22783@nevada.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:31:04 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.151656.22783@nevada.edu> nhodge@nevada.edu (nhodge@nevada.edu (Neil Hodge)) writes:
- >In article <OH8043B@netmbx.netmbx.de> fischer@netmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer) writes:
- >>Hi,
- >>
- >>are there any highways/backroads/whatever somewhere in the USA that don't
- >>have a speed limit? Thus I can go as fast as I can.
- >>
- >>Somewhere in Utah, Nevada, or whereever?
- >>
- >
- >I'm writing from Las Vegas, and I can tell you, there are NO roads which
- >legally have no speed limit. However, there are roads that are so far
- >away from anything that even police don't travel them unless they really
- >have to.
-
- But they are in "open range" country...
-
- I was on a trip through Nevada in a 4wd truck, on highway 50 (the "Lonliest
- Road") in the middle of the night. I hadn't seen another car
- for an hour or so, and was tapped out at 85 mph. I'd been driving for
- a long time and was tired, so the occaisional bit of cow shit on the
- road didn't register with my brain. Neither did the "open range next 20 miles"
- signs every 5 miles. I came over a slight rise, and there were cows
- all over the road, all laid down and _asleep_!! Fortunately for me
- they'd left a gap and I managed to slalom between them.... otherwise
- I wouldn't be posting this.
-
-
- I wouldn't want to do any top-speed testing out there without
- first running the road to see what's sleeping on it.
-
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