2,554 Miles to Wilmington, NC

[canyonwalker]

5 Days in the Desert travelog #10
Barstow, CA - Sun, 25 Dec 2022, 8am

We got an early start this morning, leaving the hotel by 7:30. Having breakfast in our room— Christmas morning breakfast of leftovers and cold cuts and crackers— helped us move things along quickly. And not more than about 5 miles from the hotel we passed the first picture worthy thing of the day. A road sign.



But not just any road sign. This is one of those Americana road signs you see on our great highways. We're on I-40 (I is for interstate highway) which begins in Barstow and ends 2,556 miles away on the East Coast of the US in Wilmington, North Carolina. Yes, I wrote 2,556 even though the sign states 2,554. The distance on the sign is to Wilmington city center, as per signage standards; the road continues a few miles further before ending about 2 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean.

Fortunately we're not driving 2,500+ miles today. We're only driving I-40 for about 78 miles, to the turnoff at Kelbaker Road to head north to Kelso Dunes.

Comments

[some_other_dave]

Amusingly enough, I'm close to that exact distance in the opposite direction from that sign! (Google maps puts it at about 40 miles more to here.)