Date:         Sun, 24 Jun 2012 08:42:49 -0700
Reply-To:     Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Road Trip
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Hello David,
Good report! I don't recall if you have a Westy or not but did you
have any problems camping in Yellowstone?
What cell phone network are you on?  With modern communications being
what they are to our (well my) day to day life I'm curious.
Thanks for sharing the report & have a great 'rest of the trip'!

Rob
becida@comcast.net
ps/ this is



At  6/24/2012 12:19 AM,David Bjorkman wrote:
>Hi All;
>At a hotel in Denver with internet access. Drove down from
>Yellowstone today.  11 hours, 40 min including lunch and 2 gas
>stops.  Really hot and windy across the open plains.  Glad to have
>the AC, such as it is.  Diane (the wife) will be returning home by
>air tomorrow ;-(  It'll just be me, my maps and the GPS again after
>that as I move down to Mesa AZ to visit friends.  I've been told I
>should go thtough Sedona.
>
>It occurs to me that even tho I set everything up until AZ, I never
>really set up the ride home.  I think I will be traveling up through
>the rust belt diagonally across America instead of the southerly
>route through Tenn. and the Smokeys and Skyline Drive.  Did that
>last year and after AZ I will probably be like the horse heading for
>the barn after a long ride.  Pete, I might be giving you a call as I
>go towards St.Louis.  Hope the invite is still open   It'll be a
>couple days down to Mesa, a couple or 3 days there, and a couple or
>3 days (really no idea) to get back up to the top of the country.  I
>will give you a call when closer.  Cell phone access been pretty
>darn spotty or non existant most of the places I've been so far.
>
>Happy  Motoring
>
>Dave B.