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Ugh...hope he gets it back running. Poor kids...I reckon it'll run thru all yawl.
Thoughts and prayers for all your comfort and recovery.

 

Hafta double down here.

 

So far, the only picture I've got:


Waiting for some accessories to arrive (running boards, roof rack, etc) in a couple of weeks and will get some better shots then. Did spend the weekend getting it all set up though... just need to wire in my auxiliary reverse lights and Pop-n-Lock, and we'll be good.

 

Only things I ever did to it was plug it in and wipe it off now and then. No software, no parts, no service calls.

 

Can't like that -- good to hear from you though, hope things get better soon.

 

Best wishes to your family

 

I think I've finalized our route to Georgia. It's a bit longer than Google initially wanted to take us (so we have a change of scenery) and it's a bit different that I previously had (changed from some back highways to interstate).

Wednesday evening
Fargo, ND to Sioux City, IA

Thursday
Sioux City, IA to Overland Park, KS for lunch
Overland Park to Little Rock
Little Rock to Memphis

Going straight from OP to Memphis was the highway bit I cut out.

Friday
Memphis to Columbus, GA

Route on the way back is roughly through Atlanta, Nashville and Wisconsin.

 

Memphis is 2 hours from me, I'll wave!!

 

When you approach the Omaha /Council Bluffs area on I-29 between Mile Marker 60 and 50 - the interstate is actually closed for construction - there is a frontage road you will get off on and have to stop at 1 stop light then continue on south bound. This will be at the 54/53 area - Speed limits are enforced at 35 mph through this area so please be aware and prepared! Please pay attention to the signs as this Interstates have been changed and few if any GPS units have updated. They split I-80 and I-29 apart and now there are express lanes and local lanes. Just watch the signs and continue on 29 South and you'll be ok to stay in the Express lanes unless you need to stop for anything. After that stoplight is where the Express Lane starts and you'll be able to take that right out of town.

The red circle is where the stop light will be.

 

Don't get caught with your pants down in Memphis, you might end up staying longer than you'd like. Like forever. You've got to think quick and move faster in that town.

If you happen through the booming metropolis of Elizabethtown, KY more affectionately known as E-town on your way from Nashville north, tell everybody you see Hunter says how-deeee

 

Fantastic information! Much appreciated!

 

I'll wave back!

 

Well that's not alarming at all!

 

In college we rode through the wrong side of Memphis on our way to Tunica for a golf tournament. We rolled through a yellow light and tboned a guy who thought we were stopping, ok no biggie. Within 2 minutes, the guy we hit, has been rear ended because he in still in the roadway. People are gathering. Boarded up buildings and barbed wire fences surrounding everything. Cops arrest the guy who caused the 2nd collision, no license. He had climbed out the passenger window and told his girl to take the wrap. Its a ruckus.

Meanwhile our bumper was bent flat to where our van could only make left turns. We pulled into an autozone and our coach gave $50 to the first guy who could hammer the bumper back out where we could turn right. We gone.

Moral of the story is always have a $50 tucked somewhere for emergency situations.

 

Any improvement, @six5crèéd?

 

After the days mowing was done (seems all I do this time of year) I decided that I had earned a drive round the block.

Admire my fuel economy picture:


At $5/gallon I have a pretty light foot.

 

@Fargo Taco another heads up.. the College World Series starts in Omaha this week so there will be lots of extra traffic and lots of extra law enforcement.

 

Tonight’s by the seat of my pants machining project. Trying to replicate a cheesetacular cast pot metal pivot for my medicine cabinet upstairs. A little scrap bar stock machined to save me having to go buy a new cabinet.

 

You seem to have a large block.

So if you need to park a few blocks away you take your camping gear?