[GeoStL] Re: Anyone ever find - and use - Bob's Road™? :)
- From: sydstyr@xxxxxxxxx
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:17:10 -0500 (CDT)
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I have discovered that the counties in the state of Illinois grant a lot of
leeway for mapmakers to play fast and loose with the classification and
identification of what makes a road a "road". The grassy knoll between two
fields is second only to those with "Impassable When Muddy" signs.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Million" <laura.million21@xxxxxxxxx>
BlueBeadMan and I were caching someplace in SW Illinois when the GPS said to
keep going straight on the road, but the "road" was just a grassy/dirt space
between two plowed fields. I can't even say that there used to be a road here
and that nature took it back as you sometimes see in the country. It appeared
that the plow left a 10 foot wide path for the tractors to drive between
fields. I gotta admit, that summer after little to no rain, that road was
flatter and smoother than some of the asphalt roads we had driven on earlier in
the day. But then,that's the fun of Geocaching in the country :-)
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Michael Rogers < mrogers07@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >
wrote:
To begin, a Bob's Road™ is any roadway that the GPSr wants you to take that
does not officially exist.
Anyway, I was out caching in the Warrensburg/Sedalia area and used my Nuvi to
guide me on a predetermined route. While out in the country, it wanted me to
turn on a VERY rural road (i.e., not really gravel..a dirt road...not even
marked). So, I did. Now, I have been down a few Bob's Roads™ before, and all
has gone well. Usually, it makes you wonder how the Nuvi even knew about this
roadway at all, because a Bob's Road™ can alternate between a semi-gravel or
bedrock road that looks like someone's driveway to just a dirt path through a
field.
Anyway, I took this Bob's Road™ and it was a doozy. I drove about a mile
through ruts, little hills, crossed a shallow creek and eventually mudded it
through some seriously wet areas only to find another farmer had blocked the
rest of the road! So, I had to go all the way back and find another way...and
have my Nuvi chide me for not following the way it suggested.
So, apart from this incident, I have used Bob's Roads™ with success...have you
experienced them?
-Michael
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