An update
So last weekend I went ahead and drove over the North Cascades Highway (which is absolutely beautiful I might add) and so clinched SRs 530, 542, and made progress on that section of SR 20.
This puts me only TWO drives away from completing the entire state highway system. One is the ferry “drive” I hope to complete next week where I’ll clinch my last miles of pavement in Western Washington (SR 519) and the three ferry routes I have not finished (SRs 160, 304, 305). I won’t be clinching SR 339 nor do I have any plans to as control of that route has been turned over to the county and so I expect the legislative route to be decommissioned soon (not to mention it is impossible to clinch).
The second drive is a three day adventure into the northeastern corner of Washington. I’ll make Colville my home base and clinch everything I have not already done. I’m planning on doing that the weekend of October 21.
Then I’ll be done.
I’m slowly but surely uploading all these photos over the last month- I still have a considerable backlog and I keep taking more drives which does not make things easier. I think I’m over halfway done now so they should all be coming up eventually. I move in descending order as dictated by my FTP server (e.g. 542, 530, 243, 20, 122, 12) without regard to when I drove the highway, so I still have to put up pictures for the following (in order)
SR 542, SR 530, SR 20, SR 172, SR 17, SR 165, SR 122, US-12, and then Oregon US-730, OR 207, and then Idaho SH 99, SH 66, SH 60, SH 58, US-12, SH 8, SH 3
and then I’ll be caught up (plus probably the ferry drive photos)