Interesting question that got posed to me on another board:

 

Suppose that none of the following things existed: GPS; maps (paper or online); any highway signs (route numbers, road names, exit signs, mile markers, directional signs); any signs bearing the name of any state, county or city; billboards

 

Without all of the above things, and without the ability to ask anybody for any help, what is the farthest specific point from your home that you are confident you could drive to without making any wrong turns?

 

Assume you can split up the trip so that you are always driving in daylight if that helps.

 

I think I could make it to a point in Wisconsin about 700 miles from home.

Edited January 13, 201610 yr by HickoryHuskers

I could make Chicago/Louisville/Cleveland for sure.

I could make it to:

-Ann Arbor, MI and my old family home

-South Haven, MI where my family cottage is

 

Those are the farthest I could get without any wrong turns.

Chicago, IL to Columbia, Mo. I could do that in my sleep.

Interesting question that got posed to me on another board:

 

Suppose that none of the following things existed: GPS; maps (paper or online); any highway signs (route numbers, road names, exit signs, mile markers, directional signs); any signs bearing the name of any state, county or city; billboards

 

Without all of the above things, and without the ability to ask anybody for any help, what is the farthest specific point from your home that you are confident you could drive to without making any wrong turns?

 

Assume you can split up the trip so that you are always driving in daylight if that helps.

 

I think I could make it to a point in Wisconsin about 700 miles from home.

 

San Francisco or New York City, but that'd be like literally four turns to get on I-80 and then a straight shot so it's kinda cheating.

 

I could make it to Manitowoc/Two Rivers easily but that's not especially far.

Edited January 13, 201610 yr by StrangeSox

San Francisco or New York City, but that'd be like literally four turns to get on I-80 and then a straight shot so it's kinda cheating.

 

How many times does I-80 have a split with another interstate on the way, and do you know whether I-80 goes left or right at that split without signs???

How many times does I-80 have a split with another interstate on the way, and do you know whether I-80 goes left or right at that split without signs???

I know which way to go until you get to SLC, I guess then it gets pretty messy looking at the maps so that would have probably thrown me off.

Yeah I just realized in STL trying to get to 70 without any signs may be difficult. Still think I could do it.

I could make it to Homer Glen where I live and Coloma Michigan.

Interesting question that got posed to me on another board:

 

Suppose that none of the following things existed: GPS; maps (paper or online); any highway signs (route numbers, road names, exit signs, mile markers, directional signs); any signs bearing the name of any state, county or city; billboards

 

Without all of the above things, and without the ability to ask anybody for any help, what is the farthest specific point from your home that you are confident you could drive to without making any wrong turns?

 

Assume you can split up the trip so that you are always driving in daylight if that helps.

 

I think I could make it to a point in Wisconsin about 700 miles from home.

New Orleans. Go west until you hit the big river. Turn left, keeping the river on your right, and go until you hit a really big body of water (not the floods near st. Louis).

Edited January 13, 201610 yr by ptatc

From Minneapolis, I could make it to Chicago. From there, I might be able to make it to Bloomington, IN, but one or two of the exits might throw me.

I could make it to Homer Glen where I live and Coloma Michigan.

 

Curious why you would know Coloma, MI. Do you have a place on Paw Paw Lake?

I can get from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean no problem. Where in the Atlantic I'd end up, who the hell knows, but I could definitely make it there

I-80 purposefully avoids major cities (other than NYC, Chicago and SF). Doesn't break off too much because E of Chicago almost all of it is toll road. Sometimes it loops around or bypasses, but that doesnt matter. Example: coming W on 80 towards Council Bluffs 80 splits into 480. But 480 brings you right back to 80, it's just like 5 miles out of the way.

 

You may screw it up at Echo UT where it splits with 84, but then youll wind up in Portland/Seattle and can just head S on 101 to wherever you want on the coast.

Reynosa, Mexico to St. Germain, Wisconsin.

Philly - 183 to 422 to 76

Atlantic City and Jersey Shore - 183 to 422 to 76 to AC Expressway

Pittsburgh - 78 to Turnpike to 322

Allentown - 78 to 22

Buffalo/Niagra Falls - 183 to Rochester, then west on whatever road that is

Baltimore/Washington/all points south to Miami - 183 to 422 to 76 to I95

 

I can easily find all of these roads without road signs

 

But I could not get to Chicago.