John, 5 hours driving at the 35 mph speed limit is 245 miles of travel. Figure what your 1st mile marker is and add 245 miles per day. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:42 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bob Sullivan > >> John, >> There is a big Parkway arts & crafts center just on the north side of >> Asheville. >> We got a Parkway map there and the mileposts on it would be your friends. >> Unfortunately the 35 mph speed limit is not to friendly. >> It seemed to take forever to drive up from Ashville to GFM on the Blue >> Ridge Parkway. >> The first time we came to GFM, we did it in the fog! >> Not good for a flatland driver like me. >> If I can't see the road on the horizon, I have to slow way down. >> Check for one of those maps. >> Regards, Bob S. > > Oh, I'm fine on the map part. > > I already know the routes coming and going by heart, having traveled them > numerous times before. I've been up and down the Parkway, covering the whole > length at one time or another in overlapping sections. I've driven Skyline > Drive. > > I picked up a new copy of the NPS Blue Ridge Parkway brochure (which has a > fairly complete map) at the Linn Cove Visitors Center on the way in to GFM > on Friday. > > This is my first chance to plan a dedicated trip to drive the whole length > of Skyline Drive & the Blue Ridge Parkway in one swell foop; without any > time constraints. It's sort of a consolation prize because I'm afraid I'm > not going to be able to make the trip out west I really wanted to make this > year. > > I'm timing it so I can pick up my "America the Beautiful – National Parks > and Federal Recreational Lands Pass – Senior Pass" (used to be the "Golden > Age Passport") when I get to the ranger station at the north entrance to > Skyline Drive. > > With Point A at my house, and Point B at the Matthews Arm Campground, Google > will almost give me the route I want. I only have to drag one point to get > the route to go to the entrance to Skyline Drive at Front Royal before > turning south. And Google auto-magically tells me it's 277 miles in 6 hours > & 16 minutes. > > I was hoping to use Google's driving directions to do the math for me while > graphically plotting how far I'm going to try to drive each day. That's how > I planned my trips out west. But on the Parkway, Google jumps off as soon as > the route crosses a numbered highway. > > What it won't do is show me how far down Skyline Drive & the Blue Ridge > Parkway I can get in 5 hours driving the next day, so I'm going to have to > figure that part out the old fashioned way. > > I'm figuring 12 hour days, 7:00am to 7:00pm, which leaves me 7 hours of play > time if I if I spend 5 hours driving. > > I want to be able to place Point A at my daily stopping point & drag Point B > south until it shows 5 hours driving time, and adjust from there to make my > next stopping point the nearest NPS camping site along the Parkway. > > And Google Maps is being a pain in the fundament about doing it the way I > want it to do it. They say there's a fortune to be made inventing a computer > program that will do what you want it to do instead of what you tell it to > do. > > Right now, I'm having trouble getting Google Maps to even do what I tell it > to do. > > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1511/3687 - Release Date: 06/07/11 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
