Post AdLU5DkamYFfKOMKyO by AlaskaWx@alaskan.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdLNL5wcsAI44YbtZo by IdahoLark@syringa.social
       2023-12-30T18:45:03Z
       
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       Saturday funny.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLNQLJv8L27Cv0aVU by USNY64@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-12-30T18:46:02Z
       
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       @IdahoLark 😅👍😊
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLQAFhYYX3f0h5Cpk by AlaskaWx@alaskan.social
       2023-12-30T19:16:45Z
       
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       @IdahoLark …said no one anywhere in 1980
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLTUuxBBvocbZw6Zk by IdahoLark@syringa.social
       2023-12-30T19:54:07Z
       
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       @AlaskaWx LOL. I remember getting AAA triptik maps in the 80s to find my way on long drives. Seems so quaint now.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLU5DkamYFfKOMKyO by AlaskaWx@alaskan.social
       2023-12-30T20:00:36Z
       
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       @IdahoLark The Milepost was a "must have" resource for any driving trip in Alaska and the Yukon into the early 2010s.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLaYUXM35KTVsVYuW by ArrowbearMoore@toad.social
       2023-12-30T21:13:12Z
       
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       @IdahoLark @AlaskaWx Drove to the moon & back & there again (figuratively) west of the Mississippi using Rand McNally Road Atlases. Did use the Milepost on the AK car trip, but it was too big for the bicycle trip. No need for that in Hawai'i.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLck6VHQjYYMGCd04 by IdahoLark@syringa.social
       2023-12-30T21:37:41Z
       
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       @njeanneburns I still remember my childhood phone number but struggle to remember my husband’s. If Garmin hadn’t been selling talking GPS units when I had to go to Los Angeles for work years ago I’d still be there, lost.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLd7FWe3KIf02sTr6 by AlaskaWx@alaskan.social
       2023-12-30T20:55:27Z
       
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       @njeanneburns @IdahoLark "The Milepost" I was referring to was a an annual publication. Same in Alaska, milepost references are common on the road system outside of the metro areas, e.g. just last week, from Alaska State Troopers: "Parks Highway is closed in both directions at mile 343 due to a vehicle collision"
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLd7GT8Xr5VvSFC1g by IdahoLark@syringa.social
       2023-12-30T21:41:49Z
       
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       @AlaskaWx @njeanneburns I always thought it was odd in Fairbanks how we reversed that and said “14 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road” rather than Mile 14. And we were still buying the annual “Milepost” up until we left Alaska. It had a lot of good info a cell phone wouldn’t tell you.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLdOGm2fGTjnJCApE by IdahoLark@syringa.social
       2023-12-30T21:44:58Z
       
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       @ArrowbearMoore @AlaskaWx We keep an Atlas or Gazetteer in both vehicles, though we’ve been screwed by them a few times. Drive for miles on a dirt road that turns out to be gated, or discover it’s nowhere near worthy of a solid line on a map.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdLeSLrLnY5ggCBlPE by ArrowbearMoore@toad.social
       2023-12-30T21:56:55Z
       
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       @IdahoLark @AlaskaWx I also carried a good supply of USFS maps. Had a rocket box full of those and topos. Plotting out routes is a pleasant exercise so many are deprived of by digital guidance. Can't count the times a visitor was lost in the park because of google.