Terrible Tom <silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote:
> jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>> Oh well, even if you do slow down, that'll only bring your road
>> trip tolerance down to only slightly above everybody else. :-)
> See I don't even really figure myself as the road king... Guys like Mike and Barry have far
> more miles of seat time than I do, with their work related travel. And Adam took that
> cross-continent trip a few years ago... and Walt and Ingrid as well as Mike and Norah and Jason
> all ended their DML Colorado trips with far more miles on the clock than I did.
> Then again I did also push something like 1100 - 1200 miles straight from MN to CO with 14
> hours of driving... I dunno... whatever... I'll let history be the judge of who's crazier...
True, but the way I see it, they all put on a lot of miles, but for
good reasons. IMHO, someone who will drive a thousand miles just to
see what color the grass is somewhere else is probably more of a road
tripper than somebody who goes twice as far for work. ;-)
> (some time passes)
> Ok this got me wondering just how many miles I put on...
> DML BBQ 2002: 1100 miles (Christine)
> Daktoberfest 02: 1100 Miles (Rented Intrepid)
> Perf World: 03: 1600 Miles (Jeep Cherokee)
> DML BBQ 2003: 800 Miles (Christine on way out, United Airlines on way home heh)
> DML BBQ 2004: 1600 Miles (Ram)
> Daktoberfest 04: 1600 Miles (Ram)
> DML BBQ 2005: 1600 Miles (Ram towing Christine)
> Daktoberfest 05: 1600 Miles (Ram)
> DML National 06: 2880 Miles (Ram)
> Daktoberfest 06: 1600 Miles (Ram)
> DML BBQ 2007: 1600 Miles (Ram)
> Daktoberfest 07: 1600 Miles (Explorer)
> DML BBQ 2008: 1600 Miles (Civic)
Wow! Not too shabby! Too bad you couldn't come up with a valid
work related reason for those miles. That'd make a nice deduction on
a Schedule C! :-)
I don't have anything near that. The longest I've driven for DML
meets is probably Carlisle, possibly the Nats, though I think Carlisle
is further, and several trips to Toronto. I did come out to the
national meet, but flew in. Of course, I put on a lot of miles each
year getting to the DML BBQ. ;-)
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