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Long trip, Monty. Factoring in your other activities along the way I reckon you'll be dog tired by the time you get back home. A quick mental calculation tells me you'll be travelling the equivalent of me driving to Perth from Sydney, returning and then heading back to the SA/WA border. It's a pity your daughter is too young to share the driving.
Take care my friend.
Cheers.
Take care my friend.
Cheers.
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Thanks, Dujon. I should have a co-driver on the long way there and coming back we are taking it more easily. Only the first couple of days will be bad but... ooops, start in seven hours - better get to bed.Dujon wrote:Long trip, Monty. Factoring in your other activities along the way I reckon you'll be dog tired by the time you get back home. A quick mental calculation tells me you'll be travelling the equivalent of me driving to Perth from Sydney, returning and then heading back to the SA/WA border. It's a pity your daughter is too young to share the driving.
Take care my friend.
Cheers.
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Have fun Monty!!Montreal Wanderer wrote:Successfully completed the first, worst part (3000 km in two days). Now in Greeley, Colorado about to take on the Rockies.
Rest assured your trivia account is in very safe hands!!!
This reminds of the uncle in Fraggle Rock who used to go adventuring and send back postcards (I can't remember his name, surely someone else must remember Fraggle Rock???)
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Uncle Travelling Matt.Gertie wrote:Have fun Monty!!Montreal Wanderer wrote:Successfully completed the first, worst part (3000 km in two days). Now in Greeley, Colorado about to take on the Rockies.
Rest assured your trivia account is in very safe hands!!!
This reminds of the uncle in Fraggle Rock who used to go adventuring and send back postcards (I can't remember his name, surely someone else must remember Fraggle Rock???)
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I have found out why it was easy to get a reasonably priced room in Greeley (in the Regency Hotel Best Western, no less). Greeley appears to have the stockyards for all northern Colorado and it's round-up time. The whole place stinks quite literally of bullshit when the wind is in the East (which it has been so far). Even worse the trains come through every half hour all night and each one blows its horn eight times - faintly at first, twice in my room and then more faintly. In the words of the song "I gotta get out of this place".
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Sounds pretty near to Gravestone Monty. Oh, and it's "We", Eric Burdon and The Animals:mrgreen:Montreal Wanderer wrote:I have found out why it was easy to get a reasonably priced room in Greeley (in the Regency Hotel Best Western, no less). Greeley appears to have the stockyards for all northern Colorado and it's round-up time. The whole place stinks quite literally of bullshit when the wind is in the East (which it has been so far). Even worse the trains come through every half hour all night and each one blows its horn eight times - faintly at first, twice in my room and then more faintly. In the words of the song "I gotta get out of this place".
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Great news, Monty. This is like the Tour de France, stage one over and Monty on the podium for the win. I'm glad you could manage Internet access, old son, as it's nice to know you have survived the toughest leg without mishap.
As a matter of interest - assuming you come back on here at some time - did you drive straight through (with your co-driver assistance) or stop over somewhere on the first night? After two days cooped up in the machine are you still on speaking terms with your fellow travellers? If not, who started it? Lastly, what sort of vehicle are you using (not being nosey, just interested in whether you're in a standard sedan, 4WD or whatever).
Good luck and safe travelling on stage II.
As a matter of interest - assuming you come back on here at some time - did you drive straight through (with your co-driver assistance) or stop over somewhere on the first night? After two days cooped up in the machine are you still on speaking terms with your fellow travellers? If not, who started it? Lastly, what sort of vehicle are you using (not being nosey, just interested in whether you're in a standard sedan, 4WD or whatever).
Good luck and safe travelling on stage II.
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Bon voyage Monty! I gave you and your journey a thought when I shouted for Mike Weir on your behalf at Hoylake this weekend.
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Dujon - stopped at Peru Illinois after first 1500 kms and went to Greeley second day - similar distance. Mostly drove myself though my son-in-common-law drove a couple of hours each day. Chrysler Intrepid which is a largish sedan with a 3.5 litre engine - so motors quite happily at high speeds - cruise control essential of course.
Harry - when you tour the Rockies I have discovered something important. If you have purchased a coke at sea level, do not open it and take a long swig at 12,000 feet unless you want to wash out your sinus cavity - the increased effervescence is astonishing. Also walking a quarter mile uphill at altitude takes a bit out of you. Safely down to around 7000 feet at Grand Junction, Colorado, on the banks of the River Colorado which at this point doesn't look as if it could carve out the Grand canyon.
A la prochaine...
Harry - when you tour the Rockies I have discovered something important. If you have purchased a coke at sea level, do not open it and take a long swig at 12,000 feet unless you want to wash out your sinus cavity - the increased effervescence is astonishing. Also walking a quarter mile uphill at altitude takes a bit out of you. Safely down to around 7000 feet at Grand Junction, Colorado, on the banks of the River Colorado which at this point doesn't look as if it could carve out the Grand canyon.
A la prochaine...
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"Moab shall be your washpot" I believe the good book said (I can't check because my motel room in Moab Utah has only the book of Mormon (something to do with the Angel Moroni). However I cannot imagine this being anyone's washpot - it is arid here. This morning we drove round the Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction. You take a series of hairpins up 2000 feet to the top of a mesa:
then there is a hair-raisng drive round the canyon rim close to incredible drops and no guardrail.
I noticed someone had no been so careful.
Well, worth the visit to see the fantastic shapes created by erosion.
then there is a hair-raisng drive round the canyon rim close to incredible drops and no guardrail.
I noticed someone had no been so careful.
Well, worth the visit to see the fantastic shapes created by erosion.
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