Re: Back from our trip

From: Josh Battles (jbattles@bankfinancial.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 16:56:09 EST


Glad you and Norah had a safe trip!

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-Josh
2000 Dakota CC 3.9L

""Jason Bleazard"" <jason.dml@bleazard.net> wrote in message news:40502.199.64.0.252.1042062250.squirrel@janor.ath.cx... > > Okay, we've been back in Toronto since Saturday night, so I guess I should > find the time to write a post to the list :-). > > We had a great Christmas in Utah. As far as Dak toys, I got a Hi-Lift > jack (okay, it's the Harbor Freight brand, same thing though), and a > Rocknob (http://www.rocknob.com/homepg.html). My mom thought the Rocknob > was really strange, but I like it :-). > > We had a fairly uneventful trip back, except for one rock chip in the > windshield (souvenir of Wyoming). The Dak performed flawlessly. It took > two and a half days to get back, taking the I-80 route due to the shorter > distance. My myth about I-70 getting better weather was dispelled by two > things: Colorado mountain passes, and checking the Weather Channel the day > after driving through Missouri to find that the highway was shut down for > tornadoes. Yikes. > > I had been planning on being in touch via e-mail on our trip, until our > e-mail access died just before Christmas. It had been working fine, then > just quit. I have it set up so we can access our own computer through the > net to get to our regular home e-mail. I prefer this to using multiple > addresses like Yahoo or Hotmail. Unfortunately, there was nobody home to > figure out why our machine lost access to the Internet. The problem was > easily resolved when we got home: one of the cats had pulled the DSL phone > line out of the wall plug. > > I'll post a follow-up later with the statistics from the trip computer and > GPS, for fellow nerds who enjoy that sort of thing :-). > > As they say, it's always nice to go on trips, and it's always nice to get > back home. After we get settled back in, when's the next meet? The Auto > Show? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------ > Jason Bleazard http://www.bleazard.net Toronto, Ontario > his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white > hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black > > >



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