I'm the same way. Even on a 1200 mile trip from MI to TN to GA to NC
it was the miles to the 5 destinations.
On 3/2/09, Barry Oliver <barrysuperhawk@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
>> 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. ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>
> 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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