Great update Robo! Words of the day:

- I'll take the bling.
- No fireworks on the Camaro. Final answer.
- No, I'm not done hijacking your thread. :snapout:
- It is 'the people.' Blair sounds like a great dude.

:lol: :cheers:

Travel safe,

broadcasting from somewhere in Arkansas
 

deep thoughts from the road...

Realizing that people in the south and middle parts of this great country are much nicer and friendlier than most Californians... ok that kinda sucks.

Good radio stations apparently are still alive.

Getting purposely lost somewhere -- physically and mentally -- is good for the soul. (so is fried chicken)

Writers block just hit... more later :headspin:

Yep.

A great road trip will cause ya to "think", "drink", & "stink".....thoughts from the unfriendly state (so true, so sad..)

We got on the scale (bathroom, not truck) at the Flying J and the results were poor as expected.

:badidea:

That's one thing I really enjoyed about the carpet business, all the "players" were in GA & TN.......and I can't get enough Southern Hospitality. Men treat the ladies like gentlemen should and the ladies are a Hoot! I still stay in touch, love the charm and Southern Belle accents!

Opryland has few good tunes. :D

..........and the food rocks!

Get some sleep, you boys need it. :thumbsup:

you guys make it sound like we're missing all the fun! Thanks for sharin!

I've been out in Arizona and just got caught up on your road trip, looks like you guys are having a pretty good time! Years ago, before my wife and I were married we drove her soft-top, no AC, Jeep Wrangler from Tucson,AZ to Nashville,TN in the middle of the August heat...I thought we were crazy, but I'll never forget that trip. You get to really see the country when you're driving across it. Enjoy the trip and thanks for sharing...too cool!

Eric, my middle name, always assumed he was named after me :)

We have actually had a couple of beers together, although he is in to Fords

Keep on truckin

Weird thing is, we're gaining weight just watching. :shakehead:



:D

DG,

Rob says he's gettin better MPG when he drives. What music does he play?

:thankyou:

Really!!! you have gained weight, sitting on your a$$ for 7 days straight. Every time I get text with a heaping servings of carny food on it, my arteries harden a little bit.

Actually was talking to Payton yesterday, and we were discussing how you two were doing it right. Usually when I'm on a road trip, I turn it into a job, have to be to this point by this time, driving to the we hours of the night trying to make good time. I don't know if its a laid back California thing or not, but I'm jealous. Lets see if its a mad across the bottom of the country now that you burned up all your days on the east coast. LOL

I'm the same way, I'd have it calculated out. Thus, I'm not a good road tripper. I'm working on it...

It sure looks like they are having a great time.

Whew!! Just chewed through the past 20 pages. What a fricken blast you guys are having. Trips like this are epic and never forgotten (even if you want to! LOL) Keep the wheels rollin', beer flowing and stuffing great food down your piehole along the way.

You guys are going to have to take a vacation when you get back to recover!

Absolutely Corey... that's the dealio. :thumbsup:

Now why am I not surprised about that Roger :cheers:

His mpg improvement was a fluke apparently.... we're back down to the 6's. :hitaxeonthehead: :G-Dub:

Ron we catch ourselves daily and throttle back the planning a bit.... probably we ended up staying at the Roach Motel in Sallisaw, OK last night. :confused59:

Oh, and maybe you didn't get the vibe from us when we were there but we are probably in the 5th percentile of "laid back" California. Another reason I go decaf. :D

Plus the FDA nutrition numbers are typically not available for the foods we eat. :lol:

You got that right Brent.... a road trip is getting in the way of my vacation! :willy:

I don't know about being laid back. Have you met DG? We have found a way to compartimentalize a huge amount of enerrgy into small pockets of last min research. We'll be rolling down the highway crosschecking Food TV network, Google, Yelp and formulating a plan put the miles behind us.

As soon as a change seems evident we go back into manic planning research and come up with an alternate we would have never thought of sitting down looking at a map before the trip started.

To simplyfy the explanation:headscratch: We just follow the Beer crumbs.

:thumbsup: Start small, maybe just a trip to a local diner between the gym and wheatgrass store with only consulting yelp.

You're listening to it Skip
6.7 to 7.5mpg so I haven't matched DGs all time low just yet.

You see SKip DGs gas mileage isn't actually accurate. You have to factor in his love for dousing everything in gas.

Yesterday I watched him shower his jacket in gas. Not sure what that was about.

Then a ways down the road as I come out of the gas station I see what I think it a huge leak running under the truck....... I walk up on it to see a GAS fountain shooting out of the cap as the pump runs unattended. (Note to self never walk away from an "auto shut of" pump). That one alone was 3+ gallons.

Then at our last stop last night before we hit Sallisaw I walk about to see Dave wiping, you guessed it, gas off the side of the truck.:_paranoid I'm hoping he kicks the habit.

:happy23:

Yeah, he has... he is the other guy with a dog box on the street. Right Ron? :smiley_smack:


I normally subscribe to this school of thought, but I make exceptions when it's 10 effing degrees outside and the first gas pump in 3 states I find will work with the auto-fill function.

Rob's embellishment can run pretty deep (shocker)... :tv_happy:

And since we are into throw under the bus mode :lol: Rob loves to drive slow in the left lane and get passed by big rigs on the right (he helps validate the notion that California drivers suck and don't know the rules of the road).

Oh, and he is also the only one thus far to stall Betsy with sub standard clutch manipulation. Very disappointing for a life long Ford driver.

:catfight: :lmao:

I was almost tempted to just video the fountain until Dave returned but there wasn't an airport nearby.:popcorn2:

So instead I shut it off and pushed it forward. BTW DG is still complaining about the gas smell on his jacket. No embellishment needed:action-smiley-027:

A few hundred mi back I bought a 2 gal gas can as a precautionary measure. I fill it up and notice the F#*$ing seal on the brand new can is torn. I tried 2 get it 2 seal but no dice.

Right then a local walks up " hey is this a 66?"
DG "68"
Me "its for sale"
Local " I had a 69 with a 350 4 bolt"

As entertaining as this was it was 12 Fing deg out and I was done messing with the leaky can.

"Hey partner, would you like a free gas can and a couple gallons of gas?"

He focuses on the can and DG and I pull away..... the small red can fades to a small red dot in the rear view mirror.

You'd think with all the practice he'd have a grasp on the concept. :sieg:

DG and Rob/Rob and DG...

I pondered your most recent thought provoking posts...

Uh ... thanks!

lol

BTW- your estimates on the longest period of silence while driving?

And who usually apologizes first?


:tv_happy:

Apparently Rob and I have found our respective niches. I should be driving and he should be pumping gas. :lol:

For the record I was set up on this one.

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Sounds like you've maybe done one of these road trips with a friend/foe.

:lol:

Well DG is right about 1 thing he is a crosscountry gas hazard.:bitchslap:

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I'm strongly encouraging Rob to sell his T56 and install an auto trans in the Torino after witnessing him abuse Betsy's brand new clutch. :action-smiley-027:

Still bitter about the Kart results and my 7.5 mph stretch:lmao: :BlahBlah: :lmao: :stirthepot: :whistling: :popcorn2:

Anyone know where to purchase a working throttle stop that I can attach to every gas station pump I encounter? :peepwall:

Guess it's a good thing I got one on my new AP pedal box. :trophy-1302:

Best thread I've read in a while. You guys are are killing me here. :rofl:

Apparently i'm looking for an AOD and a heater duct to keep my junk from freezing on I40.:bang:

Karma strikes.... the minute I mention Rob's handy clutch work I kill it at a light. :smiley_smack:

Oh, these dueling posts ripping on each other, while setting side by side are symptoms of deeper repressed anger. I think Dave is feeling a bit ripped off that Rob got to meet an FE engine guru. I think Dave needs a Chevrolet guru stop, or I fear some of this repressed anger may end in fisticuffs on the side of the highway. LOL

You might be right on that Ron.

But we're really just trying to generate a buzz for the show we are gonna pitch to the networks: "R U a laid back Californian?" :drama:

Title needs work, but it would have to be more entertaining then most of the sh!t on television.

I should be a motivational speaker, or maybe in marketing. lol

So does the cast.

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This SUCKS
 

Made it to OK

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DG is shopping for an auto trans now.

First off, I'm really enjoying both the unstaged and staged shenanigans on the Gordon-Dickey Fine FErd Reality Tour and appreciate the efforts of both combatants.

:D

Rob,

Regarding the carb story...is it later yet? ;)

We may have made a slight navigation error:underchair:

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Seems everything is fine. There was a real nice hotel at the end of the road. Nobody's here:headscratch: :headscratch:

Must be the time of year :headscratch:

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Anyone recognize this?

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I'll give ya a hint

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Betsy DOES Starbucks drive throughs with ease

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Had to pick up some tunes at the truck stop... had some great 70's and 80's CD's to choose from :rockin:

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Here ya go...got it at Rudy's Vintage Youtube Outlet in NYC.

It's moth free.