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OT: Firebaugh - cardcrimson - 12-28-2020

Don't even think there's a fast food joint on the I5 exit to Firebaugh, yet one of the best QBs in the NFL hails from there. Hard not to root for Josh Allen. Great story: "You bloom where you’re planted."

RE: OT: Firebaugh - BobK - 12-28-2020

Answer to a great trivia question.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Spiny_Norman - 12-28-2020

I thought that this thread might be a concatenation of Fire Harbaugh.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Phogge - 12-28-2020

What is the original name of Firebaugh?

RE: OT: Firebaugh - CowboyIndian - 12-28-2020

(12-28-2020, 10:18 PM)Phogge Wrote:  What is the original name of Firebaugh?

South Dos Palos?

RE: OT: Firebaugh - fullmetal - 12-28-2020

(12-28-2020, 08:57 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  I thought that this thread might be a concatenation of Fire Harbaugh.
Yeah, I was expecting Michigan chatter.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Phogge - 12-29-2020

Firebaugh’s Ferry.

For Bobbbbbbbbb, I think Feuerbach is Firebaugh in German.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - murky - 12-29-2020

(12-28-2020, 08:57 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:  I thought that this thread might be a concatenation of Fire Harbaugh.

I knew it would be, was surprised to discover otherwise.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - cardcrimson - 12-29-2020

Apparently many on the board either suffer from myopia or haven't driven I5 a multitude of times. . . .

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Red80 - 12-29-2020

(12-29-2020, 11:24 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Apparently many on the board either suffer from myopia or haven't driven I5 a multitude of times. . . .

Very dangerous stretch of highway through Firebaugh, just outside Fresno. I believe locals referred to it as "Blood Alley" or something like that. Fog was brutal. A neighbor of mine lost his wife in an accident there. 


RE: OT: Firebaugh - Phogge - 12-29-2020

Highway 33. If it's foggy pull into a motel. January and February brutal.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - cardcrimson - 12-29-2020

(12-29-2020, 12:44 PM)Red80 Wrote:  
(12-29-2020, 11:24 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Apparently many on the board either suffer from myopia or haven't driven I5 a multitude of times. . . .

Very dangerous stretch of highway through Firebaugh, just outside Fresno. I believe locals referred to it as "Blood Alley" or something like that. Fog was brutal. A neighbor of mine lost his wife in an accident there. 

Very sad. If it's not the fog, it's the wind and dust. Visibility to zero in an instant.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Mick - 12-29-2020

(12-29-2020, 11:24 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Apparently many on the board either suffer from myopia or haven't driven I5 a multitude of times. . . .

I hate taking the 5.  I take the 101 if at all possible.  I know it's longer.  Nicer drive, less fog.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Papa John - 12-30-2020

101 has much better food options! I mean besides Harris Ranch, which we've discussed in another thread, where else within a couple miles of I-5 can you find a quality meal between Pacheco Pass and Santa Clarita? (The comparable journey on 101 would be between Gilroy and Ventura, which means you pass through Salinas, SLO, Nipomo--that one's for BobK--and Santa Barbara.)

RE: OT: Firebaugh - CompSci87 - 12-30-2020

I drove 5 north from LA to the Bay Area once. It was desperately boring. (Also desperately lacking in rest stops when I needed one!)

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Mick - 12-30-2020

101 food options between SF and Santa Barbara:

https://www.ajc.com/travel/highway-101-the-best-roadside-eats-between-san-francisco-and-santa-barbara/pCjEye0hOMhLxiAtgnzXGI/

RE: OT: Firebaugh - cardcrimson - 12-30-2020

(12-30-2020, 12:20 AM)CompSci87 Wrote:  I drove 5 north from LA to the Bay Area once. It was desperately boring. (Also desperately lacking in rest stops when I needed one!)

Every exit has a rest stop . . . .

RE: OT: Firebaugh - CompSci87 - 12-30-2020

(12-30-2020, 09:48 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  
(12-30-2020, 12:20 AM)CompSci87 Wrote:  I drove 5 north from LA to the Bay Area once. It was desperately boring. (Also desperately lacking in rest stops when I needed one!)

Every exit has a rest stop . . . .

I meant a rest room. Mine ended up being a tree.

RE: OT: Firebaugh - cardcrimson - 12-30-2020

(12-30-2020, 11:04 AM)CompSci87 Wrote:  
(12-30-2020, 09:48 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  
(12-30-2020, 12:20 AM)CompSci87 Wrote:  I drove 5 north from LA to the Bay Area once. It was desperately boring. (Also desperately lacking in rest stops when I needed one!)

Every exit has a rest stop . . . .

I meant a rest room. Mine ended up being a tree.

I new exactly what you meant. An expert tip--exit the highway and head to the on-ramp. As most of the exits connect to an overpass, as you head down the on-ramp, pull off to the side, there you're pretty much shielded from view from at least the traffic going your direction. . . .

RE: OT: Firebaugh - Maple Leaf - 12-30-2020

the locals just pull off on the shoulder and go in full view for enjoyment of the passers by and maybe with hope for an offer.............have done many a business trips into the valley traveling up and down I5, 99, 152 and 41/46..............just and every day occurrence.