There is a big difference between US 95
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_95

and
Interstate 95
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95

US 95 is one of my most loved "power car" roads, although where I live now, I seldom get to drive it (used to live out west, really loved that road). I-95 is a tractor-trailier race track running up the east coast, only a half hour from my home, the joke of course being, that most folks think 95 is the speed limit -- and in parts it seems to be, you either drive 90+ or get run over.

 

So Lee, wherebouts did ya live "Out West"?
We've prob torn up the same asphalt!
This Nevada desert has some really high speed runs.
Miles, and miles, and miles, and MILES,of flat out, hammer down, white knuckled drivein'! Reno to Vegas in around6 hrs. (around 500 miles, I think, I'd hav'ta look it up. With Mom in the car, it takesabout 8hrs. )

 

I lived in both Carlsbad and Farmington NM, and a bit NW of Scottsdale for a bit, and in southern Colorado for while (my family is from there). I remember US 95 -- there are straightaways to die for. There is also a road (can't remember the number) in far west Colo, somewhere near Greeley,locally called "gun barrel highway"-- it went straight across a flat agriculturalvalley for 20+ miles, and the valley floor had a very slight negative bowl compared to the earth's round surface, so the net was the road was geometrically straight -- at night you would dim your lights for oncoming traffic only to realize 5 minutes later it was a car that had been ten miles away at the time.

I love the desert southwest, and would prefer to live there, but my wife is from New York (I mean, really from New York -- when I met her she lived in Manhatten and thought "the country" was the suburbs where they had trees in the front yard.) She just can't get used to the wide open spaces, so we compromised on North Carolina: it isn't Arizona or New Mexico, but then it isn't New England either: I can get out into "country" (county roads with one farm house every 1/2 mile) in only a few minutes and there are some nice twisty sports car roads here, particularly in the Blue Rdge Mountains, and a section of US 1 near here has a five mile straightaway, but unfortunately also has a perfect (and often used) hiding place for a state partol car.

 

I have a bud that grew up in Greeley, Co. (far eastern Colo., by the way)
34 and 85 meet in Greeley.
Azzirona? I've takena couple of runs from Reno to Vegas, Vegas to Kingman, over to Flagstaff, turn right, and onto Tucson, then down to Tombstone. Ain't nothin' like those desert roads for wide open drivin'.

 

Like Lee said about the oncomming traffic. coming in to Flagstaff from the east on 40 is like that. you can see the mountian and say "not long now" but it's a long time 'for ya get there with the kids in the back..."are we there yet?" ..."are we there yet?"
Nice long slow curves and lots of straight-a-ways.

 

The desert can be very decieving as far a distance. Schmidt, you can see for about 50 miles!

I got greese all over my hands right now, the weather has warmed up and I'm wrenchin' on the "Starship". FINALLY!!! I'm checkin' CF when I take my "water" breaks.

 

'Atta boy Dave, I've been holdin' my breath waitin' for ya' to git go'in on that thing.

 

C'mon over Bro, I have more than one set of wrenchs.

 

Hmm- lets see, Ann Arbor to Reno-whata think, maybe 2000 miles-I've made it to Denver in 20 hours in a truck, I can probly' git to your place late tomorrow, want me to bring the torches, welder, grinder, or do you have enough to keep us both busy? I'd be there in a heartbeat if I did'nt have this sorta' half responsibilityof family and job and I almost forgot, I started teaching at the apprentice school, but other than that I'll be right over.

 

[8D]Looks cool[8D]