wingnut 0 #1 March 25, 2005 okay so maybe some of you relised i wasn't here the last couple weeks... probly not though..... so here's my adventurous story of my 4000+ mile adventure...... left utah on the 9th (wednesday) set out for sunshines place in IL for tursday night.... well i arived there on time, well sort on time, i slpet somewhere in nebraska a little to long... saw a truck carrying some kind of nuclear waste or smething, big lead containers with the radiatin symbol stencled onthem..... saw a hovercraft not a cheap home built but a pretty big one on the backof a tailer........ well got to see sunny's apt, man is that place small!!! hecki even got to see the place she works at.... she had all kinds of important work stuff to do, faxes to send, payrol to compile, so i left and headed my wy back over twards ohio, my final destination...... got back to my parents house finally, i was only overloadingmycar by 700lbs of it's GVWR! got it unloaded and prepared for my trip to PA. about 50 miles north of Harrisburg, got a dealon some VHS tapes on ebay but i had to drive my car withthe trailer to pick up all 2500 of them (anyone want to buy some used VHS tapes cheap?) so i pick them up and am heading back on the PA turnpike, lok down to change the radio station, look back up and BAM, something happens, my car is shaking, i'm slowing down, so i pull over to the berm and try to figure out what is wrong, first thought is that mytrailer broke (i was prepared to leave it on the side of the road, i had to be back inohio the next day to catch a flight back to utah) well, the trailer was fine, it was my passenger side rear tire that had blown, so i unhook the trailer, get the spare tire on and then proced to figure out waht i'm gona do.... so what do i do... call my dad for advice... he says i should be okay drivingback on the donut so i procede to drive back 250 miles to ohio pulling a trailer on my spare tire... nothing sucked so bad iny life that doing 55mph on the turnpike at 3am..... so i finnaly make it back home about an hour before i have to leave for the airport for my return trip to utah to pick up the rv and the rest of my stuff in it. so i fly out of columbus to newark NJ.. my god, i hope i never fly into that place again.. the gates are set up spaced out and they have thier own security screeners for each section,it takes forever to get through... and they did it to me again... "sir, you might want to take off your shoes".. all they have toi say is i have to, not that i might want to... so what do they do, they "random" inspect me.. no problmes, but it's just anoying.... some day i think i'm gona dust my soes in gunpowder and take a trip just to mess with em.. or maybe go to the airport barefooted, that would be better, have yet to see a sign that says " no shirt , no shoes, no service" at the airport yet...... okay........... so i getto utah, hop in the rv the next morning and proced to head to colorado springs to visit an old friend..... get there and head downtown to a bar called " the underground" drink, hang out, sing sme kareoke, alol in all a good time, ended up staying 3 night it was so much fun, well and the fact that i didn't want to drive 1300 more miles back to ohio... finally pried myself away from my friends apt and headed "home"... passed a jet/hyroplane/ race boat on the way back, ya know the kind, they always flipover when they go to fast...... and oh, yeah,it rained the whole time.. it sucked........ but i finallymade it home, got the tire fixed onmy car todayand got my computer hooked up with wi-fi so i dodn't have to run a cat5 cable 60ft to the basement where my dad's office is........ moral of this story if yo made it this far.... in 4,000 miles you will: see atleast 3 wierd things, might have a tire blow out, will drinkalot of alcohol, might get to hang out with cool friends yo havn't seen in a while, and maybe even find the meaning of life, or were your life is taking you... that last one... man, my trive was a doozy for that one.... 4000 miles of thinking... andi came up with one certainty....... i don't want to be a truck driver!!!! some pictures from my trip.... i'm not as good as alanaB at taking pictures while driving so i didn't get any of the radiactive waste or the hovercraft or the speed boat, but i did get: wendy- my friend in colorado springs pikes peak- a freaking tall mountain out side of the springs gloomy arch- the St. Louis arch from I-70 Gardenof the gods- the park that is a mile from where i used to live ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflir29 0 #2 March 25, 2005 I have driven from one side of the country to the other at least 5 times now. No real want to EVER do it again. Unless it's while pulling my DZ trailer to a new DZ. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
windcatcher 0 #3 March 25, 2005 wow that last picture of the garden of the gods..that's gorgeous...I wanna go!!! and BTW...I have noticed you haven't been posting Mother to the cutest little thing in the world... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunshine 2 #4 March 25, 2005 Duuuude, no pic of my garden gnomes? ___________________________________________ meow I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hipwrddude 0 #5 March 25, 2005 Thanks for sharing. As Jethro Tull says, "Life's a long song." You're always the starter in your own life! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #6 March 25, 2005 quote]Duuuude, no pic of my garden gnomes sorry, you have a digital camera. post one so everyone can see them... they really are cool, where did you finally decidde to put them? clay, i hearya on that, i've driven i-70 from as far east as it goes to denver, i-80 from wendover utah to middle of the state PA, i-10 from ft walton beach to huston, across texas both directions and most of the state of ohio..... windchatcher.. ifya do visit colorado springs,it is prety cool, and not to far of a drive from where you are (if i remeber corectly at least the state you live in is close by....) go up the cog railroad to pikes peak!!! it's on my list of to do's, next trip back to visit i'm gona do it, justhoe it isn't 100 degrees when i make it back.. ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RevJim 0 #7 March 25, 2005 Glad you made it safe and sound, Dave. That driving thing....you either love it, or ya don't. I do. Looking forward to trying to decipher what you are writing again! It's your life, live it! Karma RB#684 "Corcho", ASK#60, Muff#3520, NCB#398, NHDZ#4, C-33989, DG#1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #8 March 25, 2005 Where is the Garden of the Gods? It's magic. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #9 March 25, 2005 QuoteWhere is the Garden of the Gods? It's magic colorado springs, colorado.... folow colorado ave 9 it thinkit's ave) to 30th st. go north and you will pass it on your left hand side...... lots of walking trails, not sure how big it really is but it is big enough to walk around for a while!!! and when you are done you can always go walk throgh "old colrado city" wich is fun as there are diffrent kinds of shops and resturants lining the main drag through that part of town... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLFKING 4 #10 March 25, 2005 Quotethat last picture of the garden of the gods..that's gorgeous...I wanna go!!! Ditto. That's a nice pic, Dave. Glad the trip went okay. Don"When in doubt I whip it out, I got me a rock-and-roll band. It's a free-for-all." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Darius11 12 #11 March 25, 2005 welcome back dude. driving 55mph on an empty highway must have sucked balls man. I might have just ramed the car in too a wall if that was me. Glade you made it ok.I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kai2k1 0 #12 March 25, 2005 Quotegloomy arch- the St. Louis arch from I-70 Now I'm PISSED You came through STL and didnt stop?? I would have given you a place to stay and chill and a hot meal at the very least. There's no truer sense of flying than sky diving," Scott Cowan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #13 March 26, 2005 QuoteYou came through STL and didnt stop?? dude, it was hard enough to manuver the rv on i-70, no way was i gna try and find you plce while driving that thing..... hile passing by st. chrles i thought about calling up skymedic and FW and didn't have thier number, and also once again, manuvering that beast isn't the easest.... ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
