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• 11/25/2009 6:54 PM Robert Rehkopf wrote:
  Who is going to Newfoundland/Nova Scotia this summer?
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• 3/4/2010 2:46 PM Herb C Anderson wrote:
  My good friend Buck Lemme loaned me a good travel book recently, William Least Heat-Moon's Roads to Quoz. And that is how I was introduced to a new terminology for rating highways. To quote:
  "He wrote about dominating, dominated, and equal highways, the category determined by how well a route is integrated with the countryside it passes through. A multilane tends to dominate because you're more conscious of it than the land around. In a city, the highway gets dominated by the surroundings. But on an equal road, you're aware of the road and also what's beyond it. That was his ideal type of motoring."
  Makes sense to me. When it comes to the actual selection of "equal" roads, however, I am pretty sure Heat-Moon and I would have significant difference of opinion. Later in his fine book he writes:
  "...entering the [Great Plains] from the west, I reach them pleased to leave hehind horizons congested by mountain roads impeded with twisted curves."
  Is he kidding? "Conjested" by mountain roads? "Impeded" with twisted curves? Sounds like heaven on earth to me. Obviously he is not a motorcyclist and I am.
  And now I am going to get on a sportbike and go in search of some "equal" roads where I can enjoy both the undulating curves and the beauty of the landscape.
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