Nancy Young wrote:
>
> "The Bubbo" > wrote
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> I would suggest that even with two people driving, that is a long
>>> time to be on the road without real sleep. Be smart, if you feel
>>> drowsy at all, pull over. People have a funny habit of driving off
>>> the road when they fall asleep behind the wheel.
>
>> started flying across the road. When I muttered "damned mice flying across
>> the
>> road" I realized it was time to wake the girl, change the cd and work a
>> little
>> harder to stay focused.
>>
>> to be clear, I did NOT fall asleep!
>
> (laugh!) Funny.
>
> When I was in my 20s, I could drive all day and all night, too.
> I wouldn't try it now.

Yeah, the last time I did it I drove 25 hours from minneapolis to atlanta
starting at 5 in the afternoon. We stopped in Paducah, KY for waffle house at
4am (it was awful), Nashville for Bongo Java, and Hatch show print at 9am,
Lynchburg TN for the JD distillery (Goose wasn't doing tours so we didn't
stay) then meandered the rest of the way down. We got to Atlanta around 5.
Slept for 3 hours, found some dinner and then crashed. The next day we headed
out to Savannah.

>
>> As luck would have it, we blew a tire outside Sterling, CO at 4 in the
>> morning. We dialed up AAA and got towed in (the wheel was rusted to the
>> bolts
>> and I couldn't get it off, I can change my own tire. Hell, even the tow
>> truck
>> driver couldn't get the wheel off) and we napped in the parking lot of the
>> repair shop. Made it to denver in time to meet a friend for breakfast then
>> headed down to New Mexico.
>
> Ugh, that's got to be the worst, car trouble on a road trip. They should
> break while they are sitting there in the driveway instead of
> inconveniencing
> everyone. (laugh)
>

It was really frustrating because I can change a tire and I would have changed
this one and not called for a tow but I could not get the wheel off. The tow
truck driver came out and he was all cranky because we got him out of bed and
so he was going to show us dumb girls a lesson. He couldn't get the tire off
either. I didn't mind that particular flat tire, the trip was a last minute
jump in the car and go kind of thing and I just figured it was part of the
adventure.

> nancy
>
>

I miss road tripping like that. I had cats at the time and it's easy enough to
leave them with enough food or have someone stop in. Now I have two dogs and
it requires more planning.

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