2010-07-30T10:39:01Z http://blog.grassrootsbmw.com/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:blog.grassrootsbmw.com,2010-03-04:2880132 Herb C Anderson http://grassrootsbmw.com 2010-03-04T19:46:48Z 2010-03-04T19:46:48Z 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:<BR>"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."<BR>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:<BR>"...entering the [Great Plains] from the west, I reach them pleased to leave hehind horizons congested by mountain roads impeded with twisted curves."<BR>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.<BR>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. tag:blog.grassrootsbmw.com,2009-11-25:2592135 Robert Rehkopf 2009-11-25T23:54:17Z 2009-11-25T23:54:17Z Who is going to Newfoundland/Nova Scotia this summer?