In article >,
"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:

> Any route that includes a road called 'Sea to Sky Highway' can't be all bad
> ;-) Route looks great. What does the 600KM equal?

Divide by two and add another 10% of the original figure and you'll get
close, but if you want to be more accurate, a km is 5/8 of a mile almost
exactly.

So about 375 miles.

> I may have to map mine just to get a look at it via satellite ;-)

Just set your destination next door to your starting point and use
Google Maps' ability to set a couple of points your route must travel
through...


>
> Chris
> 99BBB
>
> "Alan Baker" > wrote in message
> ...
> > In article >,
> > "Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:
> >
> >> Just for fun, and to see if anyone is still hanging around, I wondering
> >> what
> >> people's longest, single day 'Miata drive' has been. I'm not talking
> >> about
> >> jumping on the freeway and heading to a distant city but a drive just for
> >> fun. It can include some highway driving (especially if you live in
> >> level-land like Houston ;-).
> >>
> >> I'm thinking of a drive I did a couple years ago that I'd like to do
> >> again.
> >> I started in SW Houston, headed to Austin and ran the famous (now
> >> probably
> >> 'traffic calmed' to 30 mph) Lime Creek Road. Then headed out of Austin,
> >> NW
> >> to Marble Falls and on to include Fredericksburg, Mason, Junction,
> >> Kerrville, Medina, Vanderpool, Leaky and Utopia (it must have been named
> >> by
> >> an early Miata guy ;-) Anyway, this caught most of the best driving roads
> >> that I know about in the area. Then I did jump on I-10 and cruise
> >> straight
> >> back in an effort to finish in one day but, iirc it was in the 700 to 750
> >> mile range with a ton of slow, tight and twisty stuff. I wish I had the
> >> route installed on some mapping program (I may have to do that). If you
> >> have
> >> your favorite mapped that way, post it up here or just give us a rundown
> >> of
> >> your endurance route ;-)
> >>
> >> Later,
> >> Chris
> >> 99BBB
> >
> > I drove around the loop from Vancouver, past Whistler, past Pemberton,
> > up to Lilooet and back down the other side on the TransCanada #1 highway.
> >
> > <http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=d&sourc...1st+Avenue,+Va
> > ncouver,+British+Columbia&daddr=50.31435,-122.80598+to:50.15694,-121.5784
> > 9+to:Maple+St&hl=en&geocode=FTPQ7wId9sqo-CnFw8_EtHOGVDHGwoY3lbtFyA%3BFW68
> > _wIdJCGu-CmNYVV1yTWHVDEbYjrABMT9ew%3BFYxV_QIdBtzA-ClPn-xcbRCBVDFWT2FIesHi
> > Fg%3BFcrP7wIdQuCo-A&mra=dvme&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=7&via=1,2&sll=49.98655 2,-12
> > 4.903564&sspn=4.584613,10.272217&ie=UTF8&ll=49.802 541,-122.233887&spn=2.3
> > 00955,5.136108&t=h&z=8>
> >
> > About 600km...
> >
> > ...just for fun.
> >
> > --
> > Alan Baker
> > Vancouver, British Columbia
> > <http://gallery.me.com/alangbaker/100008/DSCF0162/web.jpg>

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