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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2013, 04:56:47 PM »
And the Murtaugh list begins.
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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2013, 05:21:09 PM »
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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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2013, 05:34:22 PM »
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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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2013, 05:38:18 PM »
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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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2013, 07:23:11 PM »
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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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2013, 10:29:18 PM »
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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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2013, 11:07:20 PM »
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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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2013, 10:46:01 AM »
Quote from: 1911 Junkie on July 31, 2013, 05:21:09 PM
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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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2013, 02:15:23 PM »
Quote from: PegLeg45 on August 01, 2013, 10:46:01 AM
The trip home was much "easier" on the body.  ;)

It's cuz it's all downhill...

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Re: i am too old for....
« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2013, 07:19:27 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on August 01, 2013, 02:15:23 PM
It's cuz it's all downhill...

:)

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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For the Patriots of this country, the Constitution is second only to the Bible for most. For those who love this country, but do not share my personal beliefs, it is their Bible. To them nothing comes before the Constitution of these United States of America. For this we are all labeled potential terrorists. ~ Dean Garrison

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