#Highway Landings

[cogumellow]

driving home // new york and pennsylvania, usa // october 2016 // ©

[pkmn-redirect]

Good news everyone!

I landed a new day job! It's much closer to home and only 4 days a week instead of 5! I should (theoretically) have more free time to do art things that I want! I'll be taking a week off from updates to adjust to the new work schedule (10 hour work days over 8 hour days will take a moment to get used to!), but pkmn-REDIRECT will be back soon!

Thank you for reading along so far! Mari's journey is just beginning, and I'm glad you're all along for it! :D

[crimson-creature]

Not the ATC being like 😲 at the idea of landing on the freeway

that's like the second suggestion if landing on a runway is not an option

ATC: oh no all emergency services are at the ready but how are we gonna make sure the freeway is empty

meanwhile Buck and Bobby:

[utahunfiltered]

On the border of Colorado and Utah, driving on old US 6. The old Highway has been abandoned and is no longer maintained on the Utah side.

[inbetween-beast-and-man]

//for @rainofchains

[gingerfan24]

Oklahoma Panhandle, May 19 2024.

[aledethanlast]

Tears part 1: wait Luke and Elliot broke up???? Why??? Maybe it makes sense, it's been years, they've had time to mature and grow and perhaps grow apart. I just hope it wasn't too ugly.

Tears part 2: never mind, I guess you don't grow out of being catty and dramatic.

[sumbluespruce]

Solitude

Morning drive to Powder River Pass, never encountered another vehicle.

[rabbitcruiser]

Mono County, CA (No. 4)

U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Hesperia, California to the Canadian border in Laurier, Washington. The California portion of US 395 is a 557-mile (896 km) route which traverses from Interstate 15 (I-15) in Hesperia, north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake. The route clips into Nevada, serving the cities Carson City and Reno, before returning to California.

Prior to truncation, US 395 served the metropolitan areas of San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The highway serves as a connection to the Los Angeles area for the communities of the Owens Valley, Mammoth Lakes and Mono Lake. The highway is used as an access route for both the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, and the lowest point in North America, Death Valley.

The corridor has been used since the California gold rush, and before numbering was known by several names including El Camino Sierra.

Source: Wikipedia

[fleetsonourgecentral]

so it first Scourge only stays in the dimension because he has no way out, but what about the Omniviewer or the Ring of Eternity? do they for some reason not have the ability to take him to his dimension? or are we just shoving them out of the picture for the sake of the story until we can think of a good reason for their absence?

hi can you tell how much I've got the Fleet!Sonourge bug

So the Omniviewer and Ring of Eternity, although they do have dimension-related powers, don't quite have the powers to send Scourge back to his own dimension (Sonic was distraught upon discovering this, because the Omniviewer was his first solution. Locals say he stormed off yelling "THEN WHAT EXACTLY IS THE POINT OF YOU???" when the Omniviewer said he couldn't help). Their powers, while impressive to someone from the fleetway dimension who didn't even know dimension travel was possible, are actually pretty standard and minor in the grand, cosmic, multi-dimension scheme of things, as both of them can really only use their powers on the fleetway dimension and nearby "connected" dimensions

The Omniviewer's power is mostly limited to Mobius and the Special Zone, the latter of which is still inside the fleetway dimension. There's the bonus of time travel, but that still only really impacts the fleetway universe. I don't remember if we ever see him use his powers for anything outside Mobius and the Special Zone, but if he can, it's limited. The Ring of Eternity has a bit more power, as it can connect to other dimensions, but only... local dimensions, I guess is the way to put it? The Cosmic Highway is big, there are a lot of alternate dimensions to hold, and not all dimensions are within the same distance as each other

Think of it as like a bubble, I guess? The Ring of Eternity can reach dimensions that are within the bubble, and most if not all of those dimensions have a direct connection to the fleetway dimension. The universe that has King Sonic, for example, is directly connected to the fleetway universe, because, well, it's a parallel for it. It's a relatively close dimension, from a multi-dimensional perspective, which means it's within the reach of the Ring of Eternity's powers

Moebius, however, is not part of these connected dimensions. Different bubble, or neighbourhood, or whichever metaphor you wish to use. It's not a dimension that's close to the fleetway universe, so even if the Ring of Eternity or the Omniviewer were aware of that universe to begin with, they couldn't send Scourge there, because they just don't have that kind of power. Probably for the best, otherwise there could have been some... unforeseen complications when the Omniviewer trapped Super

The fleetway universe, and similarly, it's connecting universes, are pretty well-contained. Travel between connected dimensions isn't very common as it is, unless you count Sonic's trips to the Special Zone, so getting outside of that little bubble is incredibly difficult. Portals that open directly onto the Cosmic Highway just don't spawn often, and it's incredibly difficult to find an alternate way out. Perhaps it's a cosmic evolution; a dimension that specifically spawned and adapted to keep things and people (like Super) contained

Either way, it's effective at keeping people in. Between that, and Scourge's dimension being not only completely unconnected to the fleetway universe, but also thousands of miles away on the Cosmic Highway, neither the Omniviewer nor the Ring of Eternity can help, so please stop yelling at us Sonic it's not our fault there's nothing we can do

[coldcanyon]

been "collecting" photos of good grates/plaques/etc around the city to do rubbings of, some of them "straight" and some of them maybe collaged or interspersed to create ransom-note style texts . . . presented alongside photographs . .. ! Oh i just have so many ideas for all these little projects but I think I need to wait it out until they all become entangled in each other because they all have to do with water and public space and interface between built environment and "natural" environment . . .. so I think they can all come together into a more ambitious interdisciplinary research-based project/show/thinggg

[cadmium-free]

Lifetime Challenge Road Trip Scavenger Hunt

I’ve been working on perfecting this list every single time I’m on a road trip, but now I’ll take suggestions from the public on my work of art

LICENSE PLATES

License Plate from another country than the one you are in

License plate from another continent than the one you are currently on

Polar Bear license plate from the Northwest Territories

License plate that says something lewd (must be the BACK plate on an actively used car)

THINGS TO SEE

Oscar Meyer wiener truck

Airplane or helicopter lands on road

REAL Volkswagen Harlequin

Novelty shaped car (not Oscar Meyer) like a ship, monster, etc.

Car with a passenger riding on top (back of pickup truck does not count)

art car (driving)

see a truck get stuck under a bridge

see a truck transporting a wind turbine blade

section of road where the side you’re driving on changes

an active train crossing (can stop traffic) that cuts through a major highway

see a worlds largest [object]

visit a roadside curiosity museum

visit a tunnel of love/old mill ride

visit a gravity hill

see a ghost

[dead-loch]

I’m not sure if I didn’t know this because I’m not American or if I just haven’t put together the significance of these titles side by side before, but there being both the Trail of Tears (US 1800s) and the Highway of Tears (Canada, 1970-present) is so unbelievably fucking horrific on so many levels, not least of which being the continued mistreatment of indigenous people by our governments

[classicalhighways]

B311 - Pinzgauer Straße between Zell am See and Saalfelden, Salzburger Land, Austria by RikNikD800

Steinernes Meer glowing in the background

[filmap]

Final Destination 2 David R. Ellis. 2003

Entrance Ramp Willis Rd, Campbell River, BC, Canada See in map

See in imdb