[AT] anybody close to this?

[Gerald Johnson]

Sorry if my post below is a little "slow" getting to the list.  I sent it on
3/2/05 at 10:30 a.m. (Eastern) and I see it has finally made it to the list
3/4/05 at 4:44 p.m.   Perhaps it got stuck in a traffic jam on I-40 just
west of Asheville.

Gerald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Johnson" <geraldajohnson at bellsouth.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] anybody close to this?


> I live in the Western NC mountains and thought I would pass along this for
> what it is worth:
>
> 1.  The I-40 route is really not that bad.  You can expect road
construction
> including lane shifts and reduced lanes down through the gorge from
> Waynesville to Newport, TN.  It has been that way basically since this
> section was opened and probably always will be.   It is heavily traveled
and
> there are motorist assistance patrols running regularly through the gorge
in
> case there is a problem.  It is the main East-West route into and out of
NC
> so it is kept in as good a condition as possible by DOT.
>
> 2.  Another route is to take I-40 to Morganton, then hwy. 181 to Newland
> (where I live) and then on 19E into TN.  Once you get to Elizabethton, TN,
> you can travel toward Bristol and intersect with I-81 where you can travel
> south and then intersect with I-40 west of the gorge.  Not a bad route,
but
> a long way out of the way.
>
> 3. Yet another route it to travel I-40 to Asheville, then take 19-23
(future
> I-26) across the mountain to Erwin, TN (where they hung the elephant),
then
> on
> into Johnson City, TN where you intersect with I-81 south which runs you
> into I-40 west of the gorge.  This 19-23 section has just been rebuilt in
> the last couple of years in preparation for extension of I-26 and is a
nice
> drive...but still out of the way compared to I-40.
>
> There are any number of other routes using two lane roads (including going
> through the Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park) but unless you have plenty
of
> time to spare and loves curves,I would advise using  I-40.  As I said
> before, it is not that bad....just that every time a rock breaks loose on
> one of the cuts that the media gets hold of it and talks about how
terrible
> that stretch of road is.  Heck...what's a few landslides to an tractor
> collector! 8-)
>
> Hope this has been of assistance.
>
> Gerald
> Western, NC
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <robinson at svs.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:45 AM
> Subject: RE: [AT] anybody close to this?
>
>
> > On 2 Mar 2005 at 7:08, Al Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Charlie, Is there a "better" way to get to TN from NC than I-40?  I am
> > > hoping to take a trip towards Nashville this summer for the IH
> > > Collector's Red Power Roundup and I may be pulling a trailer.
> > >
> > > Al
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Then you definitely don't want to cross through Deals Gap...   Something
> like 318 turns
> > in 11 miles.   ;-)
> > I have driven from NC to TN a couple of times on I-40 and I didn't think
> it was that
> > bad. If I was not pulling a trailer or was just pulling a small one I
> would likely just
> > cut through the mountains on the main road (I forget its number) through
> the National
> > Park and relax and enjoy the trip. It is usually only bad on fall
> weekends. I don't
> > really care that much for trips where my goal is to get from point A to
> point B quickly.
> > I like to mosey and wander around back roads a little. On the trip we
made
> to see Bob
> > Seith north east of Columbus OH we took a "short cut" home through
> Florence KY and spent
> > the night there...   :-)
> > Sadly the trip we are making to southern KY this week will maybe be a
> hurry trip. I'm
> > having a hard time leaving the farm these days, my mother's mind is not
> doing well and
> > she has panic attacks when I leave the farm especially if it is any
> distance away.
> > Columbus IN is the next county seat town south of here and on my last KY
> trip I told her
> > I was going to a tractor show "south of Columbus". I just didn't say how
> far south...   :-
> > )
> >
> > -- 
> > "farmer", Esquire
> > At Hewick Midwest
> >       Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
> >
> > Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish
Highlands,
> > Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. Here 100
years
> > before the revolution.
> >
> >
> > Francis Robinson
> > Central Indiana USA
> > robinson at svs.net
> >
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