Re: East cost convoy to Oregon Discovery Trail (was: Tire selection for off road use.)

From: Andy Levy (andylevy@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 22:40:28 EST


I better start saving my pennies up now so I can make it. I'll need
plates & front-mounted recovery points of some kind before it.

And I'm supposed to fly to San Fran to visit a friend sometime in the
spring too.

Jason Bleazard wrote:
>
> This is getting VEEEEERY tempting. I could even stop and see my
> family for a bit.
>
> Where is the start of the trail? Anyone used Mapquest to figure out
> the distance? It took Norah and I almost 5 days to cover Salt Lake
> City to Toronto, but we were traveling in the dead of summer without
> A/C, pulling a UHaul trailer, and trying to keep track of a cat who
> was lose in the cab (no place for the cage in the regular cab, and I
> wasn't about to just stick him in the greenhouse effect under the
> tonneau cover).
>
> (So much for my decision not to do any more big road trips. :-)
>
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:09:52 -0500, jstolarz@loa.com ("Josh Stolarz")
> wrote:
>
> >Wow, getting risky.. It is a highway, all she has to do is keep it straight,
> >and out of the rear ends of others... I'll have to try to remember to bring
> >this 4x4 trip up a little closer to July...
> >
> >Josh
> >
> >"Andy Levy" <andylevy@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> >news:3A554EF2.9D1AA835@bigfoot.com...
> >> Yeah, but I think everyone would want to drive their own just to say
> >> they did it.
> >>
> >> Who knows, maybe by then I'll trust my girlfriend enough to drive my
> >> truck (*snicker*).

-- 
-andy

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