02-24-2018, 04:23 PM | #51 |
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I've "been" to Germany a half dozen times now, but every single time I've either spent the whole time in an airport, or in a barracks. One of these days I intend to take a no-shit trip, but I doubt it'll include delivery of an M3 like yours. Enjoy it!
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02-24-2018, 06:58 PM | #52 |
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02-24-2018, 09:27 PM | #53 | |
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02-25-2018, 10:54 AM | #54 |
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LOL- 'quite a trip' is relative...
When I was growing up, a Sunday often consisted of my parents packing us all in the station wagon (1978 Ford Country Squire) for a scenic drive and a picnic. We'd leave Monterey in the morning and go to..... Yosemite for a picnic lunch in the valley or maybe at the Ahwahnee. Do some touring around then drive back. That is about 200 miles each way - and we'd always take fun detours on the way over or back. Guess that is why, to this day - I often take 400 mile drives on a Saturday or Sunday - just to get out of the house. Here is one I do a couple of times each year.... https://goo.gl/maps/uSW4KrXdovm Leave in the morning and have lunch in Leavenworth or Winthrop and do some looking around... then head home. My brother's kids also have been brought up in the 'road trip' environment - Big vacation driving trips from Monterey to Utah or Montana or... Texas.... are a yearly activity. We get our Danish relatives in on the act as well when they visit - they really love it. Especially much so as the scenery is so different from what they have in northern Europe. But - I guess we are just a bit weird.
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Hopefully the scenery and the M3 will be bearable. |
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02-25-2018, 11:25 AM | #56 |
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02-25-2018, 11:29 AM | #57 | |
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I miss Winthrop and Leavenworth. My facebook photo shows main street Leavenworth decked out in xmas lights. I'm not sure how many times I've been to Germany. Between tours during rock and roll days, working for two different German companies during my working career, and trips to In-Laws in Mainz. Easily has to be over 20 visits. I keep telling my wife we need to go for a vacation, and not tell any relatives we are visiting. Just go and be tourists.
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When my gf and I were doing the traveling CT/x-ray tech thing, we'd drive between 400 and 600 miles a day to get to our assignments. I'd lead with my 3 and she'd follow with her Odyssey. We would communicate via 2-way radios. We've driven across the country a total of 8 times, each time taking different routes. I remember one particular road trip in winter when we were heading east from CA to MA. There was HUGE weather front that was dumping A LOT of snow. We were trying to keep ahead of it and ended up driving close to 700 miles that one day.
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02-25-2018, 11:51 AM | #59 |
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I hated road trips as a kid. I was always car sick and miserable.
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Some kids (adults) are not able to do the 'road trip' thing....
My manager at work - he doesn't even like driving 40 minutes each morning to get to work. He doesn't like it to the point he is in a carpool (with his wife) and he has never driven when she is available. He just smiles and shakes his head when he hears of my trips to Monterey where I drive 900 miles straight through without stopping.
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