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Jul. 28th, 2012 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariOne of the the things I enjoy the most in the world is road tripping. Just throw me in a car, a tank full of gas, and I'm sure I'll find my way home eventually. This year has been different. There is a major trip I'm planning, coming back from Texas, where I'll be going from San Antonio to Seattle, without touching a single freeway. Five days, lots of Americana.
With my pickup officially dead, I haven't had a good roadtrip this entire year. In fact, there hasn't been a single one, which is why I'm so stressed out about being stressed out (it's a major stress reliever for me). Before my Big Roadtrip, though, I plan to roadtrip like crazy while I'm in my beloved Texas Hill Country.
I've spend most of the day trying to figure out where to go while I'm there, and decided to take a specifically scientificky roadgeekily way to go. So I made this map:
On my last two visits, I realized I could go about 55 miles away in any direction (as the crow flies) before I'd have to head back to get back to friends and family in the evening. So I made a perfect circle 55 miles from both my San Antonio and Austin homes (The blue circles). Everything inside those circles was most likely fair game.
Secondly, I marked out what I consider the Texas Hill Country (The red path (YEs, I know everything east of Austin isn't exactly the Hill Country...it's got honorary status since it's all Adelsverein German settlements like the majority of the rest of the Hill Country). So now, I had a good idea of what Hill Country and Texas Coastal Plains (pretty much everything South East of the Hill Country) were in my sights. But a lot of that in the blue I'd already visited....I needed to find out where I'd already explored.
That's the Green Line, which isn't an EXACT area of where I've explored, but the areas I've explored the most. After overlaying that, I've found out the areas I may have been to, but haven't really explored.
The biggest chunk seems to be a lot of the area west of San Antonio...there's a substantion portion of the Hill Country I haven't explored extensively (I've been out there, but usually only to a major town, with no exploring) out there that's in the blue area, and reasonably reachable in a day. I may made a few days of that.
From Austin, thought, there's a lot less of the Hill Country I haven't visited...a small chunk of Northwestern Burnet county, and little slivers of Lampasas and Llano. Still, it'd make a good day trip to see what's out there.
And appearantly, there's a lot of non-Hill Country area I can visit as well. Nearly everything south of the mid line of the San Antonio circle (one of hte major problems getting out there is just getting through the city) and a lot of Northeastern Plains area and the southeastern Czech areas outside of Austin.
Looks like I've got some trips to plan, cities to visit, and maps to memorize! This is gonna ROCK.
With my pickup officially dead, I haven't had a good roadtrip this entire year. In fact, there hasn't been a single one, which is why I'm so stressed out about being stressed out (it's a major stress reliever for me). Before my Big Roadtrip, though, I plan to roadtrip like crazy while I'm in my beloved Texas Hill Country.
I've spend most of the day trying to figure out where to go while I'm there, and decided to take a specifically scientificky roadgeekily way to go. So I made this map:
On my last two visits, I realized I could go about 55 miles away in any direction (as the crow flies) before I'd have to head back to get back to friends and family in the evening. So I made a perfect circle 55 miles from both my San Antonio and Austin homes (The blue circles). Everything inside those circles was most likely fair game.
Secondly, I marked out what I consider the Texas Hill Country (The red path (YEs, I know everything east of Austin isn't exactly the Hill Country...it's got honorary status since it's all Adelsverein German settlements like the majority of the rest of the Hill Country). So now, I had a good idea of what Hill Country and Texas Coastal Plains (pretty much everything South East of the Hill Country) were in my sights. But a lot of that in the blue I'd already visited....I needed to find out where I'd already explored.
That's the Green Line, which isn't an EXACT area of where I've explored, but the areas I've explored the most. After overlaying that, I've found out the areas I may have been to, but haven't really explored.
The biggest chunk seems to be a lot of the area west of San Antonio...there's a substantion portion of the Hill Country I haven't explored extensively (I've been out there, but usually only to a major town, with no exploring) out there that's in the blue area, and reasonably reachable in a day. I may made a few days of that.
From Austin, thought, there's a lot less of the Hill Country I haven't visited...a small chunk of Northwestern Burnet county, and little slivers of Lampasas and Llano. Still, it'd make a good day trip to see what's out there.
And appearantly, there's a lot of non-Hill Country area I can visit as well. Nearly everything south of the mid line of the San Antonio circle (one of hte major problems getting out there is just getting through the city) and a lot of Northeastern Plains area and the southeastern Czech areas outside of Austin.
Looks like I've got some trips to plan, cities to visit, and maps to memorize! This is gonna ROCK.
