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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: TAB on July 31, 2013, 12:04:37 AM
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ok so I know I am not exactly old, but yesterday I drove 1167.3 miles in 24 hours. it about killed me. I use to be able to do that np, not any more. the rental car guy was impressed .
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Oh Jeez, I thought you had a new avatar.
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Once upon a time I did 999 in 14.5 hours. Partied all weekend, drove back on Sunday late and went straight to work on Monday morning. Wonderful to be 26 and healthy!!!
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I drove from Portland to Wisconsin in 30 hours and then drove back a month later (4 hour nap both ways). I was 30ish and it sucked. For work too, no fun involved. ::)
Did make some good $$$ though 8)
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You can tell the age of us by saying I once or I used to ...
At one time I could drive tractor and combine around the clock for days - weeks, with only breaks for livestock chores and a sandwich on the run. Corn harvest was a break because I ran the trucks and drier, so I would catch catnaps (15 minutes every third truck load to make room for more wet corn) while the drier was filling or dumping, or while sitting in line at the elevator (nobody jumped line because everyone was napping. Elevator employees would knock on doors when we had too large a gap or it was our turn).
During my short trucking career, I could juggle logs as good as anyone to get containers of produce from the Gulf Coast to Minneapolis non-stop, grab a catnap, and head back empty for the next load.
Wife and I commented on our last trip to Chicago how we need to stop every two hours to stretch our legs and get the blood flowing again. I can push a 800-900 mile day, but then I SLEEP. Motorcycle trips start off with a full two to three hours on the first tank, and then it is like being in school again - 50 minutes on and 10 minutes off.
Welcome to maturity TAB! It's all down hill from here ;D
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Back in June we did 1000 miles in 16 hours (average 62.5 miles per hour, which doesn't sound like much)........ and yes, it was rough on my middle-aged bones. :-\
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Not to mention slow, too. ;D
Old and slow...you averaged less than 50 MPH. ;)
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Not to mention slow, too. ;D
Old and slow...you averaged less than 50 MPH. ;)
Math skills 1st 2nd they go at some point as a sign you've lost it ;D
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A friend and I drove from Fort Polk, LA to Flint, MI in 15 hours IIRC stopping only for gas. It took us more like 24 hours to get back. Google maps says it takes 18.5 hours but we were averaging 80+ mph one way and only 50+ the other way. Now I don't like driving much over 100 miles.
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Ft. Laud, FL, to Charlotte, NC, 700+ miles, stopping only for gas and pee breaks, its takes 10 hours and 50 minutes. All interstate. And it's harder and harder to do without pain... :-\
Back in the day, as a much younger guy, drove from Ft. Laud to Springfield MO, several times, around 1100 miles or so,....got there in about 23/24 hours nonstop, and started partying.
Now its Priceline or Travelocity.
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And the Murtaugh list begins.
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Of course this comes up now. Tomorrow I drive to my parents in Alabama and probably to Louisiana after that. To my parents is about 850 miles, takes about 12 hours. Of course this time I will be driving with my 2 little pee machines but that's why I'm doing it at night.
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When it's time for a road trip......my friends call me ironass! Food/outhouse/gas/stretching/breaks, all get done at the same time and place. I drive till I get there. I'm old and cranky now, and I still drive till I get there. Last month, I did 700 mile round trip in 11 and 1/2 hours. 45 minutes in Virginia to put up a car on a trailer for a buddy. He owes me some barbeque and good slaw.
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There's always a flip side to these stories..
Back in 87 or so, we were traveling from CT to MI for Thanksgiving. Somewhere just west of Berwick, PA we got slammed by a typical November snow storm and the next 270 miles to Youngstown, OH took us about 26 hours. Most of the trip I was five feet off the ass of a semi trailer cuz that's all I could see in the whiteout. The whole trip took nearly 40 hours! Not a room to be had to spend the night...
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Some years ago, my grandmother needed a ride from Hamilton, OH where she was staying with my parents to my aunt and uncle's house in Chicago.
We left mom and dad's at 8:00 AM for the 320 mile one way trip.
I arrived home at 4:05 PM that same day.
Had a sandwich and coke with my aunt and uncle and filled the tank before heading back.
Was driving a 1971 Datsun 240Z and the speed limits were 70mph.
On the road time, not counting the turn around lunch and fill up time, averaged 91 mph.
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This evening I walked over to the north barn and painted, then I went to the big machine shed for a step ladder, then I went back and painted some more, then it was the grainery for another brush and the extension ladder, and back for some more painting, then it was the house for the step stool and a little more brushing, two and a half hours later I had walked a mile, used up a gallon and a half of paint, now have all the ladders hanging on the wall in one shed, and I can officially say that all the building painting is done for the year ... well the out buildings are done, I've been putting off staining the house for a couple years and the one who must be obeyed informed me I will be using the ladders again before the snow flies.
Too old? Damn right I too old for this crap!
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two years ago the war dept and I rode my Virago (that's a motorcycle) cross country and on the return trip decided to document an Iron Butt ride. non stop from Austin Tx. to St. Petersburg, Fl. over 1300 miles. rode back to NM for Christmas a few months later and didn't stop the first night until I got rained on. in Katy Tx. then it just got really cold. that first cross country we put on over 10,000 miles in 3 months. good times and some damn beautiful country.
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Of course this comes up now. Tomorrow I drive to my parents in Alabama and probably to Louisiana after that. To my parents is about 850 miles, takes about 12 hours. Of course this time I will be driving with my 2 little pee machines but that's why I'm doing it at night.
On the trip up, that is what we did...... we left at around 10:00 PM.......... My 79 year old m-i-l took a dose of Nyquil and sacked out in the back seat. We stopped for a 1/2 hour power nap and then food and gas just around sun-up..... then booked it the rest of the way, stopping only for gas.
On the trip back, we took a different route home (over through Gettysburg and then down the Shenandoah Valley) and stopped for the night in Roanoke, VA.
The trip home was much "easier" on the body. ;)
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The trip home was much "easier" on the body. ;)
It's cuz it's all downhill...
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It's cuz it's all downhill...
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Yeah.... I've always been a "Rock & Roll" man......... rock just enough to get rollin' and let gravity do the rest...... :o ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Oh, man up! Ya ain't that old!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHa_jqxnn4o