George B
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Maybe so. I just noted he was last on 11/1 and was concerned.
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iamdub
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I wanted to check in with him cuz he was supposed to hit up the USS Kidd at some point on the trip and I wanted to try to meet up if the stars aligned. Life got hectic and I lost track of time. I shot him a text. Normally, I'd wait til the morning but he's often posting later than this.
Did you get a response? He usually checks in here even when he's on the road. Starting to worry...
George B
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I haven’t seen James for a long time now.
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iamdub
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I did. He had some troubles on the journey and, AFAIK, is home. I thought he'd have checked in and updated by now. Maybe I should bug him again.
Tonyrodz
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Good to hear. Hoping he's doing well.
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swathdiver
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The Yukon took us to Texas and back. 15 days, 3,176 miles, 199.66 gallons of fuel. We spent 70 hours driving.
As noticed previously, the truck gets better gas mileage at 77 mph then she does at 71 or 73 mph. I stopped at the CAT Scales at the beginning of our journey and the truck weighed 7,360 pounds! That's basically max GVW! Boy did we bring a lot of stuff, CPAP machines, cases of water, oxygen bottles, clothes, batteries, etc. So for the truck to get 19-20 mpg at 77 mph weighing 7400 pounds was pretty impressive in my book.
As you can imagine the truck weighed even more as the days wore on with the girls shopping in every city and we even picked up our new dog and drove him home.
Meet Levi:
To test the waters of my endurance we drove to Pascagoula, Mississippi the first day and then on to Waco for day 2. Then we spent three days in Waco and four in Fredericksburg. Then two each in San Antonio, Galveston and Baton Rouge. Spent a day with one of my childhood best-friends outside of San Antonio and then an evening with my brother and his family in Houston. Since the ******* met us in Baton Rouge, we nixed the drive down to New Orleans. Surprisingly, I was able to do all of the driving.
I got to visit the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg and the USS Cavalla in Galveston. I was too sick to tour the USS Kidd so we'll have to make that a special trip. The girls got to see girly things, shop, swim with otters, swim in a pool on the 22nd floor, ride horses in the Texas hill country, feed wild animals by hand and not have to cook for two whole weeks! The Yukon even went to sea on a Ferry! Who knew walking into a boot shop to pick up boot hooks would cost $500! LOL
A traffic jam prevented us from going to Cooper's Old Time Pit BBQ in New Braunfels (I promised one of my nurses I would try) but we did go to Pinkerton's in San Antonio which was delicious. Had some delicious German food in Fredericksburg at Otto's Bistro. I didn't skimp on good places to eat or sleep while we were in each town. Squeezing my fat behind through a WWII Fleet Boat left me sore for a few days, those water-tight doors seem smaller than I remember! LOL
So to date, I've been lucky to visit the USS Drum SS-228, USS Pampanito SS-383, USS Ling SS-297 and the USS Cavalla SS-244.
Levi is an English Labrador from Hickory Bluff Labradors in Arkansas. They drove him down to Baton Rouge for us, saving me three days of travel.
The truck ran beautifully. Never hooked up an ODBII adapter or took the Tech-2 out of its case. I didn't bother to check the alcohol content of each tank of gas either, just calling it 5% for the books. The tires were down a pound of air at the start of the trip, 29 psi cold, and I didn't touch them either the whole time, not even when it was 40 degrees outside! Still ran great. The pump clicked off early a few times, just pulled it out further and no problems. The airbag light set once and then went away the next key cycle. Eventually I'll get motivated to find out why. Not yet!
I'd post more photos but can't get them off my wife's social media accounts, save for this one of the dog.
I had wanted to meet up with Chris @iamdub but was feeling a little run down and then got food poisoning which delayed our trip home for an extra day and $500 in expenses! I started to feel the abscess forming soon after we got home and then finally had to go in and have it drained again, the 11th time. I reckon the stress of the food poisoning allowed it to get going. This one sure does hurt. Thanks for reaching out fellas. We're going to make a special trip out to Baton Rouge/New Orleans again soon, Chris.
My brother has gotten me Prasek beef jerky several times over the years for Christmas. This trip, we got to go ourselves and buy mountains of jerky and of all things bread and eat it in the car, it was that good!
I've lost about thirty pounds since the Saddle PE, didn't gain any weight on this trip and that was good. Well, this rambling update is over, my behind and eyes need a rest! Have a yourselves a great week!
As noticed previously, the truck gets better gas mileage at 77 mph then she does at 71 or 73 mph. I stopped at the CAT Scales at the beginning of our journey and the truck weighed 7,360 pounds! That's basically max GVW! Boy did we bring a lot of stuff, CPAP machines, cases of water, oxygen bottles, clothes, batteries, etc. So for the truck to get 19-20 mpg at 77 mph weighing 7400 pounds was pretty impressive in my book.
As you can imagine the truck weighed even more as the days wore on with the girls shopping in every city and we even picked up our new dog and drove him home.
Meet Levi:
To test the waters of my endurance we drove to Pascagoula, Mississippi the first day and then on to Waco for day 2. Then we spent three days in Waco and four in Fredericksburg. Then two each in San Antonio, Galveston and Baton Rouge. Spent a day with one of my childhood best-friends outside of San Antonio and then an evening with my brother and his family in Houston. Since the ******* met us in Baton Rouge, we nixed the drive down to New Orleans. Surprisingly, I was able to do all of the driving.
I got to visit the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg and the USS Cavalla in Galveston. I was too sick to tour the USS Kidd so we'll have to make that a special trip. The girls got to see girly things, shop, swim with otters, swim in a pool on the 22nd floor, ride horses in the Texas hill country, feed wild animals by hand and not have to cook for two whole weeks! The Yukon even went to sea on a Ferry! Who knew walking into a boot shop to pick up boot hooks would cost $500! LOL
A traffic jam prevented us from going to Cooper's Old Time Pit BBQ in New Braunfels (I promised one of my nurses I would try) but we did go to Pinkerton's in San Antonio which was delicious. Had some delicious German food in Fredericksburg at Otto's Bistro. I didn't skimp on good places to eat or sleep while we were in each town. Squeezing my fat behind through a WWII Fleet Boat left me sore for a few days, those water-tight doors seem smaller than I remember! LOL
So to date, I've been lucky to visit the USS Drum SS-228, USS Pampanito SS-383, USS Ling SS-297 and the USS Cavalla SS-244.
Levi is an English Labrador from Hickory Bluff Labradors in Arkansas. They drove him down to Baton Rouge for us, saving me three days of travel.
The truck ran beautifully. Never hooked up an ODBII adapter or took the Tech-2 out of its case. I didn't bother to check the alcohol content of each tank of gas either, just calling it 5% for the books. The tires were down a pound of air at the start of the trip, 29 psi cold, and I didn't touch them either the whole time, not even when it was 40 degrees outside! Still ran great. The pump clicked off early a few times, just pulled it out further and no problems. The airbag light set once and then went away the next key cycle. Eventually I'll get motivated to find out why. Not yet!
I'd post more photos but can't get them off my wife's social media accounts, save for this one of the dog.
I had wanted to meet up with Chris @iamdub but was feeling a little run down and then got food poisoning which delayed our trip home for an extra day and $500 in expenses! I started to feel the abscess forming soon after we got home and then finally had to go in and have it drained again, the 11th time. I reckon the stress of the food poisoning allowed it to get going. This one sure does hurt. Thanks for reaching out fellas. We're going to make a special trip out to Baton Rouge/New Orleans again soon, Chris.
My brother has gotten me Prasek beef jerky several times over the years for Christmas. This trip, we got to go ourselves and buy mountains of jerky and of all things bread and eat it in the car, it was that good!
I've lost about thirty pounds since the Saddle PE, didn't gain any weight on this trip and that was good. Well, this rambling update is over, my behind and eyes need a rest! Have a yourselves a great week!
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swathdiver
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Oh, about the CAT Scales. This was at a Love's Travel Stop on Okeechobee Road in Fort Pierce. We went there to top off and buy snacks and weigh the truck. While on the gas side, only one clerk was working behind the counter, the other guy was staring into his phone oblivious to the line of people in front of him and the lady actually working.
When we drove around back, he gets on the speaker at the scales and tells me to get off, that it's for trucks. I tell him, this is a truck! He yells at me again, I reply that I always weigh my trucks there and am using the app so leave me alone. He must've started staring at his phone again as we did not hear from him again. I tried using Love's several more times but they were dirty and seemingly attracting meth heads. Plus, their app didn't work with my phone for paying for gas. Chevron's app worked great, saved a lot of money on fuel, I think! LOL Buc-Ee's was always great too for rest stops.
When we drove around back, he gets on the speaker at the scales and tells me to get off, that it's for trucks. I tell him, this is a truck! He yells at me again, I reply that I always weigh my trucks there and am using the app so leave me alone. He must've started staring at his phone again as we did not hear from him again. I tried using Love's several more times but they were dirty and seemingly attracting meth heads. Plus, their app didn't work with my phone for paying for gas. Chevron's app worked great, saved a lot of money on fuel, I think! LOL Buc-Ee's was always great too for rest stops.
George B
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Good to hear from you James. Sounds like a fun trip.
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