Date:         Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:07:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Death Valley Sun VW Gathering early December
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On 10/24/2009 5:07 PM Rob wrote:

> At  10/24/2009 04:24 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> On 10/24/2009 3:51 PM Robert Fisher wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Perhaps you can go through Bend on your way down and make Rocky come
>>> with
>>> you. hehe
>>
>> Only at gunpoint. Heckuva long drive from Bend to Death Valley. 18 or
>> more
>> hours one way. So four days of driving, pretty much.
>>
>> --
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>
> If you go to BBTB at Lake Havasu it's right on the way and that 18 hr
> of driving won't seem so bad. Yep, added BBTB to the trip and it's up
> to 25 hrs driving. BBTB is worth that kind of drive.

For that kind of a drive I expect strippers, at the very least. I have
driven the length of Cali more times than I care to think about and it's
ugly any way you go about it. I-5, I-395 (a tad better), I-99. Grim, very
grim.

I'll have to wait until I'm retired and start slipping into "sunbird" mode
before a drive like this sounds like a fun time. Right now the prospect of
shoveling snow off the sidewalk (a few times a month) and hoicking
firewood sounds like the kind of exercise I need to feel like an
independent and useful man after six months of crutching, bed,
wheelchairing, knee rollering, caning, and other forms of gimping around.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
Bend, OR
KG6RCR