Mark (& other PacNorwesters): way-back-when (1998?) for the WPC Club's
Portland Natl Meet, a friend (yeah, I got a couple of em) ran a
confuser-route-check, between Bishop, & Portland, for : Most Scenic,
Fastest, & Shortest.
Highway 101 'won' for Scenic, US 5 was the "fastest", and good-old US
395 was the Shortest.
I'd never driven beyond Reno, so parts-north were Undiscovered
Territory.
What I Discovered, was that 395 is absolutely BEAUTIFUL, and relatively
lightly travelled.
Fear-of-California may rightly be related to unfamiliarity with the Big
City freeway-interchanges, but its highway systems
are rather safe (as are the freeways; truth-be-told; slow, but safe)
US 395 goes right through/past Reno, on a
city freeway system.
Once past Reno, you drive straight through Carson City, & on south,
through a sucession of widely spaced small rural communities, through
the High Desert, surrounded by mountain ranges (but with no particularly
dangerous ascents/decents---if you stay out of Death Valley--LOL)
That scenario continues until you reach Victorville (240 miles south of
Bishop, which, itself, is 200 miles south of Reno).
It will take about 14 driving hours to drive from Portland, to Bishop,
which can be done in one day (7AM: 9PM--been there; done that)
OR , you can spend the nite in Reno--lotsa motels/casinos there.
My point is: for anyone travelling to Tulsa, US 395 (which extends from
CAN to MEX) provides a non-stressful, scenic route.
At Victorville, people travelling eastbound, from L.A./SoCal area on US
15, which passes 'through' victorville, can meet-up with people
travelling south, on US 395, at the "D" street exit.
US 40, which goes (eventually) to Tulsa, intersects with US 15 about
30 miles east of Victorville.
BTW, US 5, which passes through the middle of CA has very-high vehicle
speeds, as it is mind-numbingly straight, & boring (kind of what I
expect US 40, to be!) and can be very dangerous, when the Central Valley
is socked-
in, by fog.
Neil Vedder
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