http://blog.grassrootsbmw.comQuick BlogcastFri, 30 Jul 2010 10:38:52 GMThttp://blog.grassrootsbmw.com/2009/11/25/blogging-invited.aspx#comment-2880132Herb C AndersonMy 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.http://blog.grassrootsbmw.com/2009/11/25/blogging-invited.aspx#comment-2880132Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:46:48 GMThttp://blog.grassrootsbmw.com/2009/11/25/blogging-invited.aspx#comment-2592135Robert RehkopfWho is going to Newfoundland/Nova Scotia this summer?http://blog.grassrootsbmw.com/2009/11/25/blogging-invited.aspx#comment-2592135Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:54:17 GMT