On Fri, April 14, 2006 10:59 pm, Terrible Tom wrote:
>
> Josh Battles wrote:
>> On Fri, April 14, 2006 10:51 am, Terrible Tom wrote:
>>
>>>Hi David!! Good to hear from you and I'm really glad to hear you will
>>>be attending! Best chances of starting up a convoy is to probably meet
>>>up near Chicago, sice you have to come by there anyway... with myself
>>>and Josh Battles. At the moment I'm not sure who else will be traveling
>>>with us. I'd prefer to make it to Co. Springs on the 15th of July - the
>>>offical starting date. I have the 13th and 14th off work - set aside
>>>for travel time. I'm pretty flexable with my time line so I'm sure we
>>>can work something out!
>>
>>
>> I'm down for a convoy if we travel faster than 60 mph this time. I'm
>> thinking at least 70 - 75mph, possibly faster.
>>
>
> The 70-75 range works well for me. I'm not towing anything so I
> shouldn't have any problems keeping that pace. We're looking at
> approximatly 1100 miles from Chicago to Colorado Springs. Translates
> into about 16 hours of driving. Thats possible in one day...in THEORY.
> Do you plan to stop somewhere over night? Or do you plan to power nap
> in the truck along the way? I had been pondering sleeping in the back
> of the truck in a walmart parking lot somewhere to save on lodging
> costs. But its like what - $40 a night at a best western or something?
> I won't be saving that much cash. I don't mind doing the
> nap-on-the-way thing if you want?
My grandparents have travelled from Chicago to Colorado several times, I had
planned on asking them if there was a nice campground on the way that we
could stop at overnight. I hadn't planned on driving 16 hours straight,
that's a little much for me.
I'll be stopping at their place this week to borrow their campground
directory, I'll send you an email offlist and we can coordinate if you're
interested.
Why stay at a hotel when we've already got all the camping gear we're going
to need?
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