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Author:  jackb [ 19 Sep 2007, 00:29 ]
Post subject:  AK to GA road trip complete
Well, really I got here last week, but I just got internet set up in my house last night.

Details of the trip: (not that anyone really cares, but I kept track of it
nonetheless...)

The numbers:
Total miles - 4,310
Cheapest Diesel - $2.819 in New Florence, MO
Most expensive - $3.279 in Tok, AK
Total spent on fuel - $870
Best MPG - 19
Worst MPG - 14
Longest driving stretch - 27 hours nonstop - ID/MT border to Paullina IA
Joyrides taken in Humvees - 1 (and it was oh-so-fucking cool)
PB&J sandwiches eaten - 2 loaves worth

Things I learned:
-Driving ~1500lbs over your max GCVW (~11,000lbs) gives braking a very high pucker factor
-Getting stuck in traffic in Atlanta for over 4 hours and moving less than 50 miles sucks. It sucks even more when your truck does not have AC and it is unbelieveably hot outside.
-Drinking ~1.5 gallons of coffee in one night is not good for me. It makes me feel like I have a terrible hangover, my heart goes bubububububububububububu, it screws with my vision, my stomach and my balance. (I stopped counting after drinking 8 20oz coffees and cappucinos in South Dakota)

I'm still on leave, start work on Monday. Luckily we only have a few jets here too, so I can ease back into this whole \"work\" thing.
Author:  jackb [ 19 Sep 2007, 01:05 ]
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And here are some pictures...

The 18FS is no longer, the offically became the 18th Agressor Squadron a few days before I left.
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Empty Hog Pens
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355 AMU
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The Gate
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Goodbye North Pole
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My view for the next 4,300 miles. Also my bedroom, kitchen and dining room
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I'd been wanting to come here for the past 3 years, finally grabbed a bear on the way out
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Near Anchorage
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I don't remember where this was near, I think just south of Tok
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So I'm entering Canada, eh?
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My ride
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Haines, AK. thank god I had enough diesel
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Back in CONUS
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hahahah
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Author:  Weasel_80-204 [ 19 Sep 2007, 01:45 ]
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Crazy Woman is in Montana right? I remember seeing that, but the wife was sleeping and didn't get a picture. Good to hear you made it to GA safe.
Author:  jackb [ 19 Sep 2007, 02:34 ]
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I'm pretty sure Montana. It was like 600something miles of highway in Montana alone. I took I-90 from Seattle to Worthington, MN, stopped in Iowa, then took a few different interstates from Iowa to GA. (I stpped in Seattle and IA to visit friends)
Author:  boomer [ 19 Sep 2007, 06:38 ]
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Familiar with the traffic in Atlanta and I used to make nightly deliveries in New Florance around midnight! ( that's when I got my XD lol ) Small world.
And shouldent someone named \"Skinny Dick\" know how to spell penis lololol
Author:  sgtgoose1 [ 19 Sep 2007, 12:00 ]
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That looked like \"One Hell'va trip, and 1 I would like to have done really.
Alaska look like such a Beautiful State, and Canada too up that way.



Atlanta,

Houston Tx and East St Louis were the only 3 place I drove with my pistol with round chambered, I wasn't that damn way in South Memphis , which never bothered me South Memphis Had a Great Hardee's and those Ladies saw me so much driving back and fourth from Alex to Illinois they Knew my Truck
I had a 85 Ranger in \"Bright canyon Red with a Orange flame kind of detail you couldn't miss.'

But Atlanta, I did whatever I had to to keep out of there at night, the first time I drove thru there on the Interstate I heard Gun Shots WAY TO DAMN CLOSE in the area and saw a car burning in the right lane.

Then I come home to find out on the highway to town they had a Sniper shooting people cars for several weeks before they caught him.

The 80'S were great

Goose
Author:  30mike-mike [ 19 Sep 2007, 13:34 ]
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Jackb, if you even came close to St Louis and didn't stop by I'll be pi$$ed. Hell, I'd even buy you a 24oz cuppa joe! :wink: [lol] Nothing like a long road trip to put things into perspective. Good luck with the new assignment.
Author:  jackb [ 19 Sep 2007, 14:53 ]
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30mike-mike wrote:
Jackb, if you even came close to St Louis and didn't stop by I'll be pi$$ed. Hell, I'd even buy you a 24oz cuppa joe! :wink: [lol] Nothing like a long road trip to put things into perspective. Good luck with the new assignment.

I'm going to go ahead and plead the 5th on this one. Sorry, I didn't think of who lives where in the country on my way out. :oops:
The whole way I just drove until I couldn't drive anymore, then I'd pull over to a parking lot or rest stop, lean the seat back, and sleep until I woke up. Then sit back up, stretch for a minute, and get back to driving. My left arm is way tanned compared to my right arm from all the driving.
Author:  sgtgoose1 [ 19 Sep 2007, 15:56 ]
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Oh man :shock: Thats Right you have \"2-65\" AIR conditioning , 2 windows rolled down at 65 miles per hour!

Well you better trade that Truck in Man, I lived in Louisiana 6 years with a Truck with No Air and a car too , and if I hadn't been a Line Crew Chief I would of

:cry: XX(

The Heat is one thing but that Humidity with it is a Killer for me back then and even more now.

Hell it was 61F the other day for the High temp, and 34F for the low, low 70's for 5 days and now \"93f YESTERDAY and 90's for the next 5-7 days.

Thats Georgia weather

Goose
Author:  30mike-mike [ 20 Sep 2007, 15:27 ]
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Plead the 5th, or drink it? :wink:

Quote:
My left arm is way tanned compared to my right arm from all the driving.

Ah, the ol' \"truckers' tan\"! [lol] As a kid, the neighbors always knew we'd been on vacation. Dad did most of the driving, so his left arm was more tan, and Mom's right arm was.
Author:  prkiii [ 20 Sep 2007, 21:48 ]
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I'll be down in Valdosta this weekend...I have one long drive...2 hours [:D]
Author:  jackb [ 21 Sep 2007, 04:25 ]
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I went to pick up my other truck (the one with A/C) from the VPC in Atlanta this morning. I took the bus there at 5am and I'm just getting home now (11:20pm). I did make a stop at the CMP store in Anniston, AL for soem ammo though and saw Balls of Fury in the movies so I miss Atlanta traffic, but still... Longer drive than you have coming up, and after 2 weeks of nothign but driving, this felt like a leisurely Sunday drive, I only went through 2 tanks of gas hahaha.
Author:  sgtgoose1 [ 21 Sep 2007, 16:46 ]
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Well,

You'll be a \"Flying Tiger\" now, I envy you on that, I loved the South,
But times change and you can never go back.

Goose
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