Right now it does not look good fro me to be in Bryan on tusday. Maybe I will leave later and let you "pre-run" the course for me.
On Sep 8, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:
Don't resist Luke. Come over to the dark side (of trips that are WAY too
long -- but VERY cool).
I just plugged the start and end points into my Delorme map software and
let it pick the route (straight across I-10). Then I started dropping
"waypoints" to force it to go north. I hadn't really looked at it closely
yet. I need to install the updates on my laptop (which I left at the house
and can't get until midnight tonight) and make sure this software is going
to play nice with my off brand GPS. It looks like it is recognizing it on
this machine but I don't have enough USB cable to get the GPS outside our
metal building for a reading.
Y'all are meeting me in Bryan, right?
G2
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:39:36 -0500 Dan Martin <danandkatrinamartin@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
I love the route Gerald! If you fix the way you go from Huntsville to Bryan (hiway 30 instead of I 45 and US 190) And The route from Brownwood to Abilene (US 67, US 283, US 84 instead of US 183 and I 20) You could make the entire trip with NO interstate! That is I challenge I find very hard to resist.
On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Denis Dodson wrote:
Can't. Thousands of reasons. I'm a pussy #1.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald V. Livingston II" <gvl2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 1:36 AM Subject: [tcb] Jerome anyone? DENIS?
Here's the message I just posted to the Albuquerque Air Alliance forum asking about the terrain on my planned route. There's a link to images of the route saved as jpegs.
Denis? We can meet in Abilene some time Tuesday. {GRIN}
Hey Brian, can you stich the pictures together into a wide panoramic?
G2
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Yes, the bus is still being driven a little locally but towed on long
trips. I drive the '66 lowered beetle more often. Just need to
swap out the
nosecone on it's tranny (busted mount ear).
I replaced the tranny in the bus but didn't have a new pilot bearing on hand and that appears to be a problem. No more howling in 4th but it only shifts when it wants to -- and pretty much not at all after it warms up a bit.
I missed Jerome last year. Not missing it this year.
So, towing.
How much trouble am I asking for if I cut across south of Alb and take 60 across to AZ and then AZ-180 over through Payson and Camp Verde to get to Jerome?
By trouble I mean mountains. I'm planning to pack about 20 Gallons of spare fuel and make the trip from east Texas to central Arizona avoiding Interstate Highways as much as possible.
I'll be leaving some time Monday.
JPEG pictures of the mapped route are at <http://phorce1.us/ jerome_maps>
I don't have the mad photoshop skilz (or photoshop installed) to stitch them together into a big panoramic. They all load on one page -- about 1meg total so not too bad even for dial-up.
