Wow, what a drive....

[blake at clockworm.com (Blake Irvin)]

fun!

perhaps the most memorable drive, for me, was the 10k miles i drove  
in my 86 civic in the summer of 2002 with my then-fiancee.

general route was pittsburgh,pa -colorado springs - independance pass  
- utah canyonlands - vegas - los angeles - san fran - eureka, ca -  
pasadena - northern arizona (north rim of the canyon, off-roading -  
about 1k of the trip was off-road on firetrails and in desert) -  
bryce canyon (at night :(...) - central colorado -  central-new  
mexico-to-austin, tx-in-one-shot! - lake charles, la.  it was at the  
end of this trip (leaving fiancee with family in lake charles) that i  
pulled the 20+ hour endurance drive.

the driving experience i remember best from that trip is coming down  
to the big sur area along 101 at around 3am - felt like miles of s- 
curves (i think it was 30?) - by the time i got out of the curves, i  
was so physically and psychologically exhausted (no power steering on  
the (heavily overloaded) civic) that i thought i was going to lost it  
on the next curve.  so we stopped for a break.  and heard, upon  
stepping out of the car into a dense fog, the biggest sound of surf  
i've ever heard in my life.  i can only assume (it was literally  
pitch black) that we were just next to a sea-cliff.  but i had the  
shakes too bad to try finding the edge...

blake/


On Dec 6, 2005, at 11:22 PM, David Utley wrote:

> Hmmm, I will pitch in my small experience...
>
> Monterey Bay, CA., to Albuqurque, NM in 9 hours.  I hovered at  
> about 85 most
> of the way, except when the lawuh was around.  Fun drive, remember  
> it well.
> I would not want to run the risk these days, but I have 10 points  
> ATM...
>
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blake Irvin" <blake@clockworm.com>
> To: "scirocco.org List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Wow, what a drive....
>
>
> ok - my drive stories (not in scirocco's)
>
> longest i can remember are -
>
> Pittsburgh to Colorado Springs, nonstop, 3 drivers in a sedan - i
> think 25hrs
>
> lake charles, LA to pittsburgh, PA nonstop (except for gas and
> waiting for fog to clear in tennesee for an hour or so), solo, then a
> full day of work (8hrs - i think the drive was 21 or 22 hrs).
>
> blake/
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>> None.  Twas my brother, his dog, all his shit, and me.  We each did
>> 500+
>> miles, then switched off about every four hours. Longest stop was
>> 45 in
>> Memphis, TN for breakfast.  And the fog in the mountains of VA
>> didn't help.
>> We would have taken 70 all the way, but it was closed from Denver
>> to Kansas,
>> hence the move south to I-40.
>>
>> On 12/5/05, Tonee Northam <pb3vr6@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> How many hitchhikers did you pick up Mike, damn!
>>>
>>> *Julie Macfarlane <juliemac57@hotmail.com>* wrote:
>>>
>>> LOL. You ARE one of the bad ones :)
>>>
>>> Julie Macfarlane
>>> "Its not just a car! Its an adventure!"
>>> DSM4 entry: "Masochism: See Scirocco"
>>> 1981 MKI 2L 16v w 2Y
>>> 1985 MKII 1.8L 8v w 9A Wolfsburg
>>> Amsterdam NY
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Mike Smith
>>>> To: Patrick Bureau
>>>> CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Wow, what a drive....
>>>> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:57:15 -0500
>>>>
>>>> OK, got a new one to report. Just did it last week.
>>>>
>>>> Breckenridge, CO to Springfield, VA. 2100+ miles. 34.5 hours.
>>>>
>>>> My butt's still sore!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mike
>>>> '86 red 16v (Red 5 (Rot F?nf (der Jahrtausendfeierfalke)))
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