Spending most of our time in and around Falls Church, VA, we drive Rt 50 daily. Going east across the Bay Bridge to the Delaware shore is as close as any nawthern VA guy or gal deserves to be in order to achieve peace in our own time. But our personal favorite stretch of the 50 Highway lies athwart the Great Basin between Ely and Fallon , NV, the "loneliest road in America". Easy to find near perfect peace on that stretch, assuming one doesn't catch a surprise falling off an airplane while crossing the live bombing range east of Naval Air Station Fallon. Very much worth the risk.
A beautiful highway to see so much of America. My experience is mostly Illinois through the Eastern part of Maryland. Though to be transparent I've probably driven much more of I-70, I-80, and I-90, and while you could bypass lots of America if you look a bit you can still see a lot of it from those roads, too. I did do a fair bit of driving on it in the Sacramento area when I lived there, too, and across Nevada though that was in driving rain in the winter and I lost a windshield wiper which made it a terribly hazardous drive! I didn't drive it in Utah and Colorado but my father did on a family vacation. I'll never forget that drive and a gas station that wouldn't allow restroom usage and my dad driving away in Utah!
Spending most of our time in and around Falls Church, VA, we drive Rt 50 daily. Going east across the Bay Bridge to the Delaware shore is as close as any nawthern VA guy or gal deserves to be in order to achieve peace in our own time. But our personal favorite stretch of the 50 Highway lies athwart the Great Basin between Ely and Fallon , NV, the "loneliest road in America". Easy to find near perfect peace on that stretch, assuming one doesn't catch a surprise falling off an airplane while crossing the live bombing range east of Naval Air Station Fallon. Very much worth the risk.
A beautiful highway to see so much of America. My experience is mostly Illinois through the Eastern part of Maryland. Though to be transparent I've probably driven much more of I-70, I-80, and I-90, and while you could bypass lots of America if you look a bit you can still see a lot of it from those roads, too. I did do a fair bit of driving on it in the Sacramento area when I lived there, too, and across Nevada though that was in driving rain in the winter and I lost a windshield wiper which made it a terribly hazardous drive! I didn't drive it in Utah and Colorado but my father did on a family vacation. I'll never forget that drive and a gas station that wouldn't allow restroom usage and my dad driving away in Utah!