Need Moar Stickers

@tightwad Would you like to have mine? Seriously. PM me and I will drop it in the mail on Monday when I get back home.

@tightwad It’s in today’s mail! I’m figuring you’ll have it by Friday. Sorry for the delay, but that drive home from central PA is a buster.
(900 miles, plus or minus, in 14 hours, 13 minutes, my backside is STILL sore two days later.)

@LaVikinga you do that all in one day? The most I have managed alone in one day is a bit over 830ish miles. Not sure I could do 900 in one day as the last 3 hours of that I was really, really tired. Once I went from Norfolk VA to St. Paul MN, and back in 4 days (around 2600 miles). Was in MN for 3 hours (Picking up a carillon practice keyboard I had bought used). The final day driving I was stopping every 1.5 hours or so to get out and walk around. I was losing my mind. Clear evidence I’d suck as a truck driver.

Friday I am driving 985 one way. Did just under 2200 (round trip and some miles while there) last week. 2 days drive there, 1.5 days there, leave the 0.5 day to go home, back late the next day. Slept in my minivan. Was freaking hot in the deep south in my car. This time I have a friend’s house to say at on the way there and back so that won’t be as bad but it commits me to getting out of here at a decent hour Thursday so I don’t get there seriously late (bit over 600 miles to her house and then 450 or so the next day).

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@Kidsandliz I get to sing along badly to my music, plus a few podcasts that I’m a fan of and no one complains. I try not to pound the coffee so I can coordinate my “head calls” with fuel stops. The worst part of the drive is right around DC, (I pitch off to the side going through smaller towns like Fredericksburg & Winchester instead of driving into the heart of darkness that is DC traffic).

North Carolina is particularly aggravating due to the propensity of clueless/power hungry souls driving in the passing lane under the speed limit who refuse to move their inconsiderate selves over so the rest of their fellow travelers can get on with getting on.

Seriously, you guys. Check your rear view mirror once in awhile. It doesn’t matter if you are traveling above the speed limit. If there’s an open vista of roadway in front of you, but behind you it looks like you’re leading a parade, you’re not driving fast enough to be in that lane. Either accelerate, or move to the right, but quit holding up traffic.

And to the lady traveling the I-95 corridor who insists on peeing everywhere BUT in the toilet bowl because she’s still believes you will catch an butt-rotting STD from a toilet seat, what sort of animal are you‽ Please have the common decency to wipe your piss off the seat. Cleaning up after YOU is not MY job! Not urinating all over the floor would be an extra special bonus to the rest of us sensible females.

@LaVikinga Yeah just love those DC traffic jams that start about 60miles south of Alexandria - or at least used to when I lived in the Norfolk area and would drive to Cleveland. One thanksgiving that 9 hour drive took almost 18 as the traffic jam was from 60+ miles south of Alexandria onto the PA turnpike through to exit 4 (near Pittsburgh). I usually went through the center and avoided the inner and outer beltways, crossing the river sometimes multiple times as traffic on one side rather than the other was less slow. I’d go by way of Mt. Vernon as that seemed somewhat faster.

Heading up to PA, once I get to Breezewood and grab coffee at the Sheetz, I know I have 90 minutes left to relax, enjoy the countryside, and pray I don’t get behind farm equipment (or hit a deer) since I go the “back way” up 26 and avoid the turnpike.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear going up 301 and over that awful two lane bridge in MD over the Potomac was pretty fast too. Seems if I come home from visiting friends in Annapolis the drive is much faster than picking up 95 right off the bat. Hate that bridge with a passion.

Heading back up in 2 weeks to stay until after Labor Day. My Dad says I just missed the best corn he’s ever had! I think it’s time to start a water fast so I can enjoy a few ears–if they’re still around when I get there. There’s a particular farmer who has a magic patch of corn every year. Heavenly carbs & calories!

@LaVikinga I stuck it real good, thanks!
Regarding long road trips…I grew up in the west…900 miles was just getting started. I have done that on a motorcycle…not recommended however as you can’t move and stretch out the same!

@tightwad YAY! Now all you need are Irk and Glen stickers for the complete set.

@blaineg

@therealjrn wow…5th grade memories coming back

@therealjrn oh I think I still have some of those in a box somewhere!

@blaineg A notebook is naked without Ed Roth representin’.

@cinoclav You should have blamed last month’s goat. I’m not sure if the new one can handle this problem yet.

@Barney Last month’s goat was useless.

@cinoclav We all knew that; we only kept him around so that we could see the end of the contest.

@Barney How’d it turn out? I completely ignored that guy. I hope the Bubba Bottles won!

@cinoclav Yes, the Bubbas won by a landslide.

@Barney Yay!!! Hey… wait a minute…