jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
> Terrible Tom <silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote:
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>>jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
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>>> Oh well, even if you do slow down, that'll only bring your road
>>>trip tolerance down to only slightly above everybody else. :-)
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>>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.
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>>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...
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> 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. ;-)
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If it helps, I don't consider myself a road-tripper, I consider myself a
Traveler. Mike will know what I mean. I guess the difference might be
explained as the trip is not about the trip, it's about the destination.
Road trippers can stop and smell roses [or whatever], I typically
cannot.
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