Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-13-18 07:30 <=-

I hear you... The day does come when one decides it's time to hang up
the keys.... My Aunt Sylvia, at 89, decided earlier this year than the pain meds she needs to take were fuzzing her mind just a bit too much,
so now she has friends and family take her everywhere....

I'm afraid that Lilli is getting to that condition,
but possibly with cataract surgery things might improve.

One can hope. It works wonders for most... in Daddy's case, it just revealed more problems inside the eye... Mommy was back to driving
within a week...

Lilli says she's waiting for the go-ahead from her
regular doc, which may not be for a while because
of her blood pressure. Meanwhile she's avoiding
driving in inadequate light and driving in
hyperadequate light and stuff like that.

Probably a wise idea.... as long as there are other drivers to pick up
the slack.... Is her blood pressure coming under control...?

SOW, sorta... work progresses on what is obviously the Sunbury/Selinsgrove bypass on Rt15... and when I drove through on the
way home, it appears that it might also end up being a Lewisburg bypass as well... :)

Does it have signs designating it as the future I-99, as
we've seen near Williamsport and I believe State College?

There are sections of Rt 15, at least starting at the PA north border,
maybe even a little before that in NYS from Painted Post, that do have
that future I-99 signage...

It's a rather odd designation in the first place.
If it followed the interstate standard, it would be
hugging the Jersey shore and on into Delaware.
Logically it should be an extension of I-77 or 79.

True, it is odd... I'm not sure I have a clue where I-77 or 79 are...
I-76 is the PA turnpike, I-78 is north of that, running essentially East-West... I-80 crosses central PA, also east-west....

I didn't see anything in the Lewisburg to Selinsgrove section, but then
that is south of Williamsport, and I-99 leaves Rt 15 in Williamsport
to take over Rt 220 to State College...

As 15 south into Lewisburg and Harrisburg has
sections that for various reasons would be hard to
Interstatize, that makes sense.

They're working on some parts... but I agree that the corridor along the
river after Selinsgrove, down to Harrisburg, would have some major
problems with making it interstate-ish... The four-lane divided highway
with various accesses is probably the best they could do... it's pretty
nice to drive for most of it now... :)

Some of those future I-99 corridor signs I've seen
have been on 220 as we headed to State College for
some Peachy Paterno ice cream, that before the downfall
of that icon (whom I disliked, though the confection
named after him was pretty good).

So has the confection been totally discontinued, or merely renamed...?

And your recent use did nothing to lift that opinion.... :)

Nothing. And in Soldotna we had it try to route us
on nonexistent streets again; luckily Bob the driver
realized this and merely shouted at the computer,
something that seems to have become a common pastime
among my friends.

It's better than blind faith leading one totally astray... ;)

In the northern hemisphere blind reckoning most often
gets me where I want to go, and when that fails, being
not quite like the stereotypical male, I don't hesitate
to stop and ask for directions (which is easier for
someone on foot than in a car). In the southern
hemisphere and on the west coast, I often get flummoxed.

Maps are generally useful... when they exist... :) Are there decent
maps for the southern hemisphere....?

ttyl neb

... To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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