Best route?

There’s phone service most of the way across.

And if the OP is worried about “the other guy” then why wouldn’t he want to run a mostly empty two lane and avoid the traffic in SLC that’s three or four lanes wide?

 

This time of year you can go either way, don't use 30 in the winter. You have no services on 30, cell service maybe debatable.

 

Whenever I have time and get a chance to see a place I've never been, I usually go for it. Northern Utah has some of the prettiest scenery I've seen anywhere in the US. I'd go for it in a heartbeat.

 

There's a new construction zone running south of Ogden. Narrow lanes and no change in behavior of Utah drivers.

 

There are three places in NW I would love to revisit. Old Emigrant Pass, Willamette Valley in the springtime and The Chesapeake Capes where it meets the sea.

Honorable mention will be Cass WVa, logging line now a tourist and educational site. Haul you up a 11-12% to Spruce. if it's raining they will put two engines on for safety. It's the kind of steep you feel unsure of walking about on. So you don't.

Another will be Camp David in the mountain range that supports it. Not necessarily invade the place, cabins are available to outsiders for a fee and advance notice.

Another will be East Strasburg near Lancaster. You get on one of the old wooden cars that are very well maintained approaching 130 years of service for some of them, particularly the Hello Dolly and the Presidential Armored Pullman called the Ferdinand Magellan, built expressly during world war two to protect our President wherever he goes. The car is in very good condition.

When you get to say Geoff's Grove, you hear a few hundred children playing and laughing without a care in the world. I don't do well with children, but it is motivating that perhaps these are the kids who for the moment don't have to worry about terrorists and all that goes with it. They can and are just being children laughing at play.

In short there are many places around the USA and Canada I would find worth going to visit some day. But there is one item related to the sea which would be enjoyable through the work and coordinating with others on a Sail, Its a cruise but instead of plopping yourself on the deck like a lazy octopus snagging drinks all day, the Bos'un might pipe all hands to deck and have the ship trimmed

Usally the Captian does a baptism for newbies on the crew. Find a summer storm, sail into it and when the green and grey beards come over the f'c'sle and drenches you head to toe you are officially no longer a land lubber. And that would be concluded rather quickly because it's time to haul the wind, wear ship and run before the worse of it arrives.

 

Stop at the ta in tooel and say hi to my seagull friend pete.

 

Just about everywhere has cell service. Atleast verizon. Only place i have lost service is up in central oregon thru them mountains. 395 john day area and west of it , some of the most beautiful country ive ever seen . took my 30 min break on a big pullout right next to a river. Checked my phone no service. Ahhhh so relaxing. Turned off the truck sat on my empty flatbed and ate a picnic listening to the river. I wish more roads were like that. Iforget which highway it was. I remeber going from like redmond oregon out to john day to pick up lumber . i think it was or 26 or something like that

 

Beautiful country around John Day, if only it was not in Oregon. lol