Re: Back from our trip

From: Ed McCarrick (edmccarrick@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 17:49:58 EST


Welcome back. Glad the trip went well and the Dak
behaved as expected :-)

Ed
--- Jason Bleazard <jason.dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
>
> 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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