Hi Webster, I read your post on the route you're driving, if I've got my cities sited properly you're driving 1800++ miles in... how many days?
It's quite a long way.
I have traveled in the US quite a bit, always driving personally, and I have to say your speed limites are quite low compared to what we have here in the EU.
My last time was in 2008 in the Southwest, and IIRC the limits were 60 in California and 70 in Nevada.
Looow... Slooow...
Here in Europe the general speed limit is 130 Km/h which is more or less 80 mph. France has 120 Km/h (75 mph) and queasy little England has a stated 70 mph.
Not that there's much of an assumed difference between driving at 70, 75 and 80...
...until you realize that if everybody's doing 70, you have three lanes of lukewarm traffic and no overtaking lane.
And if WE can cruise at 75/80 in out little euroboxes, why are you guys still stuck at 60/65/70?