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"WilliamsSW" (williamssw) 07/18/2020 at 23:35 • Filed to: Things that make you go hmm, Harmilda

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That stretch of road has always made me scratch my head. Needless to say, I wasn’t driving east or west at the time. 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 00:09

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Harvard ?  I’ve probably been by there before. Makes sense on the map of course.  I saw a similar setup somewhere else recently.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 00:22

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Well it could be like I-64 in Southern VA. I-64 E starts traveling West after it crosses the river into the Virginia Beach area. I went the wrong way more than once because I assumed “East” headed toward the ocean because East Coast.

WilliamsSW > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/19/2020 at 00:37

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Yep, Harvard.  That’s Harmilda the Cow on the right in the first photo.  Fun fact - Harmilda used to sit in the middle of the street (on Ayer, I think).  They moooooved her to her current location about 20-25 years ago.

superdave847 > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 00:43

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McHenry County can be an odd place my friend. Embrace it.

WilliamsSW > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) 07/19/2020 at 00:44

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It looks like I64 made a wrong turn and got lost in Norfolk somewhere.

WilliamsSW > superdave847 07/19/2020 at 00:48

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Let’s see, you’ve got a cow in the middle of the road in Harvard, a real-life “Hoosiers” story in Hebron, and of course the true home of ...

shop-teacher > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 03:32

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You were driving south, right?

pip bip - choose Corrour > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 06:42

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is it not left is east and west to the right?

if not i  don’t understand?

WilliamsSW > pip bip - choose Corrour 07/19/2020 at 08:40

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No, it’s not - there would be arrows pointing left and right if that were the case.

The road I was on was simultaneously 14 east and 173 west.

14 generally runs SE/NW in the area, and that stretch is north/south. 173 runs straight east/ west, but jogs to the south there.

WilliamsSW > shop-teacher 07/19/2020 at 08:41

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Yep. Headed home from my dad's in Williams Bay,  WI. 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 09:10

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They should have left her in the middle and made it a round-a-bout. Then it would make sense. 

OPPOsaurus WRX > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 10:06

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There is a major highway outside of Boston that does the same thing.  I think it's 95n and 128s 

WilliamsSW > OPPOsaurus WRX 07/19/2020 at 10:26

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Yep - it’s not common but it does happen. Around Chicago, there are a number of national east-west routes that really run north-south as they go around the lake. 14 isn't  one of them, but it parallels I90 which is.

shop-teacher > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 10:30

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I went through there 6 or 8 months ago, and couldn't help but laughing that the road said we were traveling both West and East when we were heading South :)

WilliamsSW > shop-teacher 07/19/2020 at 11:16

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Haha yeah.   It's a short stretch,  basically just 173 jogging south over the bridge to cross the C&NW tracks/ yard. 

WilliamsSW > shop-teacher 07/19/2020 at 11:20

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Also, holy crap were there a lot of deer out there. Had to come to a complete stop once on WI 67, and slammed on the brakes for one on 23. If there had been a 2nd one behind that deer, I would be posting wreckage pix today.

I have a firm rule about not speeding up there around sunset or at night, which saved us.  And that deer. 

WilliamsSW > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/19/2020 at 13:38

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That would be a good idea. That  intersection gets pretty backed up on summer weekends from peopls going to and from Lake Geneva etc. That would improve traffic flow.

shop-teacher > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 18:12

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Yep. And route 14 jogging North to do the same.

shop-teacher > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 18:13

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Yeah, that's a good rule.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > OPPOsaurus WRX 07/19/2020 at 21:14

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or 28 n that runs south on the cape. Always hairy on that narrow road when you find some lost tourist trying a 3 point turn. 

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > WilliamsSW 07/19/2020 at 21:17

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Haha ya  don’t go anywhere near Richmond on a weekend

WilliamsSW > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/19/2020 at 21:38

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Yeah.  Richmond is worse than Harvard is.  Lake Geneva is 5x worse than Richmond is.