Signals Question of the Day -4

[BrAinPaiNt]

Port Ingles, Florida to Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Around 800 miles or so.

Was not too bad as it was when I was a young lad and we were in a Winnebago.

As far as actually driving...Probably from my home town to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Around 250 miles or so. Do not remember how long it took to get there as we took some different roads so the wife could go through some amish country. I think she took more pictures of horse drawn buggies than anything at cedar point lol.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I absolutely deplore driving long distances. My wife wants to buy a vacation home in Vermont, but knows we were hardly ever go there because I will refuse to drive that far. :laugh2:

I was ok with it at one time.

Now I have to load up on some energy drinks or something as the steady hum of the engine makes me so sleepy.

The last trip I had to take the wife to Morgantown to the university hospital for some tests and I did not think I was going to stay awake on the way home.
I think I stopped 4-5 times to get out, walk around, have a smoke and just try to wake up and this was when it was like 15 degrees out.

Sad thing was it was just like 2 and a half hour drive. Not like it was an all day drive.

So yeah...I hear you.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Port Ingles, Florida to Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Around 800 miles or so.

Was not too bad as it was when I was a young lad and we were in a Winnebago.

As far as actually driving...Probably from my home town to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. Around 250 miles or so. Do not remember how long it took to get there as we took some different roads so the wife could go through some amish country. I think she took more pictures of horse drawn buggies than anything at cedar point lol.

BP, I'm not sure Winnebago made the RV you were driving...

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

BP, I'm not sure Winnebago made the RV you were driving...

I tell you what, that winny was not too far from that.

My dad got a summer job working on a power plant in Florida.

So they ran out, bought a used Winny and we headed down from WV.

We get to South Carolina and the radiator goes out. So we are stuck in this small town for a couple of days waiting on some parts to get it fixed.

We lived in that crappy thing the whole summer. I remember we left the last day of school and I got back to WV a couple of days after school started.

Talk about crazy. Living in that thing on the Gulf of Mexico for the whole summer and living through some of those tropical storms.

My bed was a fold down bed over the driving compartment. A little cramped space like sleeping in a coffin and at least 4 times a week I would wake up with spider (or some kind of bug) bites on various parts of my face.

I liked spending time down there as a child but hated living in that thing.

However the wife and I are considering buying a house boat soon...seen this and got intrigued...

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[Vtwin]

That's awesome! Is Converse Bay clear of ice? I'd think it would be full of shanties by now...

I can't wait to move up there....

VT to Telluride...two of my favorite places in the world. On a bike no less....call me jealous. Can't imagine riding a bike through the pacific NW would be much of a disappointment, either...

It was still wide open last weekend. I think that last winter there were enough dumba... er I mean hardcore fisherman to keep a channel open out of the bay all winter. Hardest part is getting the boat up that steep ramp when it is iced up. Great fishing right now. We caught over twenty, combo of salmon, lake trout and steelhead.

And it was an 80 mile roundtrip road trip for me to get there just to stay on topic...

 

[YosemiteSam]

However the wife and I are considering buying a house boat soon...seen this and got intrigued...

I've seen several others to choose from:

 

[Faerluna]

I absolutely deplore driving long distances. My wife wants to buy a vacation home in Vermont, but knows we were hardly ever go there because I will refuse to drive that far. :laugh2:

I will never make another long road trip again. If it can't be done in under 4-5 hours, it ain't happening!

 

[Hostile]

6700 miles in 13 days on my 1995 Harley Softail Custom. Starting in north western Vermont we zig zagged our way out to Telluride Co then on to Zion National Park in south western Utah. Had company on the way out but rode back by myself. Year before that was only 3500 miles down to Smokey Mountains. Year before that was 5500 out to Sturgis and on the Beartooth Highway and Yellowstone.

Glacier National and the Pacific NW is on the agenda for this year.

I loves to ride my motorcycle.

Helped a buddy move from Idaho to upstate NY once. That was a hardcore straight through drive in a pickup towing a car. We did take a side trip to Jackson Hole WY to do some skiing. Helped another buddy move to NW Vermont from South Carolina, That was in a Uhaul truck towing a car.

I love road trips.

Jarv, Jobberone, tomson75, you, and me need to get together and ride to a game.

 

[tomson75]

Jarv, Jobberone, you, and me need to get together and ride to a game.

:cry:

It's because I'm ugly, isn't it?

 

[Hostile]

:cry:

It's because I'm ugly, isn't it?

Nope. I just forgot who else was bikers. You are in like Flynn with a great big

 

[Cythim]

I drove about 1400 miles in 25 hours and 2200 miles over 3 days

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I made the Lubbock to Port Aransas drive more times that I can count. 11 and a half hours to the Dolphin Docks from Indian Creek apartments.

Dad loved to see America when we went on family vacations so we always drove. The longest was from San Antonio to Yellowstone, including Bryce Canyon and one other park, then down to Las Vegas, and back across to Carlsbad Caverns, through Big Bend, and home again.

 

[Bigdog]

From Boston, MA to San Francisco, CA. Over 3,000 miles and it took us 3 days. It was me and my fiance in two different cars and we did not have cell phones then. Had to use walkie talkies to communicate and my car did not have any air condition for the August drive across country.


Also went from northern NY (20 minutes away from the Canadian border) to Miami, FL in college with a few of my buddies. Took 24 hours driving straight through.

 

[Kangaroo]

Been on a lot of long trips some pretty close in length but some more pianful than others

Holloman Airforce base back to Austin Military convoy top speed 55mph about 637 miles (flew in drove back)

Houston to Gridley, Kansas about 655 Miles (round trip) made this trip a bunch Wife Family

Conroe, TX to El Paso, TX about 731 miles (round trip)

Killeen, TX to Orlando, FL about 1300 miles (round trip)

Houston, to Killeen, TX then hooked up with my dad and on to Litchfield, Ill
194 +843= roughly 1100 miles (round trip) Buried my Grandmother

Made the Killeen,TX to Decatur, Ill and Llitcfield,Ill several times

Chesterton, IN to Belton, TX about 1100 Miles (one way)

Houston, TX to Pubelo, CO 921 Miles this was with like 40+ boys ages 11 to 17 (That was this summer)

How much this counts not sure but in Highschool my freshman and Sophomore year in the summer we did a church Choir tour where we went and sang at church after church for about 2 weeks went all the way from Killeen, Tx to LA, MI, AL, TN and a few more in between I mean miles upon miles upon miles of riding (yes all 15 passenger Bus and minivan car pool style)

 

[Vtwin]

Jarv, Jobberone, tomson75, you, and me need to get together and ride to a game.

I'm in!

 

[Hoofbite]

I've driven from right around KC to SW Idaho a number of times.

I can say without a doubt that Nebraska and western Kansas are two of the most horrid places to ever drive through.

That's about 20 hours if you go straight through.

A few years back I worked a job that wasn't all that great and the hours were flip-flopped.

Anyway, me and three others left town at midnight and drove 8 hours to Dallas. Watched the Rams game where Romo had that ridiculous fumble run and then immediately drove back. All in all, it was about 24 solid hours. I've never been so tired in my life and I've pulled so many all-nighters, on top of all-nighters. We stopped to eat on the way back and I asked the friends to box my food so I could go crash in the car. I'm pretty sure I drove about 75% of the time.

It was rough.

 

[Hostile]

I'm in!

The perfect thing would be to hit 2 games. One one the road and the other in Dallas and ride from one game to the next taking our time and seeing the country.

 

[Vtwin]

The perfect thing would be to hit 2 games. One one the road and the other in Dallas and ride from one game to the next taking our time and seeing the country.

Sounds good to me. We'd have to do it early season because of that damn winter thing we got going on up here.

 

[Seven]

12 hours to Las Vegas.

Not to party or anything -- the inlaws live there. And we went with five kids in the vehicle. Uggggh.

How many you come back with? :

 

[Seven]

Drove from ABQ to Shreveport, LA. Was touring with a band. Hit just about every little town in between. Even played in a biker bar with the chicken wire in front of the stage. FYI: it does nothing for liquids. Had a blast and will remember it for the rest of my life. Ruined a keyboard but the bar replaced it.
Stayed at one hotel and the residents there saw us perform one night and called us "The Rock and Roll Movie Stars" for the rest of the week. Hilariuos!! I don't think they were EVER sober. I got free heads, sticks and a bass pedal. Made 250.00 bucks a week for playing (literally, IMO) for 4 hours a night. Party invites afterwards.........EVERYTHING was free. I'm surprised I lived to tell this tale.

Oh yeah.....First night in Shreveport, I was questioned by the police for over an hour. There was a dead guy floating in the river I chose to walk along.


Those were the days...............