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[Geotrash]

Hear, hear! Glad you had a great trip and especially glad you’re okay!

 

[89Suburban]

Glad you okay James!

 

[Sparksalot]

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:

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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!

Both the Ranger and Nimitz museums are great!

cute puppy.

 

[Fless]

Good to hear from you James. Sounds like a fun trip.

x2!

 

[Tonyrodz]

We missed you James! Glad to hear it was a fun, mostly uneventful trip.

 

[swathdiver]

Both the Ranger and Nimitz museums are great!

cute puppy.

The last time I was there it was called the Nimitz Museum and now it's been completely remodelled and called the National Museum of the Pacific War. Ranger museum? Do tell!

The dog is a good boy, the other two took to him right away. I thought we were going to get two once we moved into our new home but mine like many women has little self-control and told us just before we left what it would take to detour to Arkansas and get the dog! It was less expensive to have them drive him down to us though I wonder how much the owner made driving a 1-ton dually 9 hours each way!

 

[blackelky]

One of the interesting things about my truck is that the previous owner never reset the fuel used counter and now it is about to surpass 8,000 gallons. The mileage just rolled past 120,000.

When purchased in May, the lifetime fuel economy average by doing the math was 15.4 mph and now it is 15.04; getting worse with me! Now I reckon those West Virginia hills helped the mileage as well as the cooler weather, I've never seen 18 mpg (an average lasting a tank full of gas) at any time since bringing it home from North Carolina.

Just completed a 1,200 mile trip and it's average fuel economy, fully loaded mind you, sits at 15.6 mpg.

In every other automobile owned, surpassing the mileage on the window sticker was easy, but not so with this truck! Maybe that's because the mileage on the window sticker was blank? LOL Published literature puts it between 14 and 15 city and 19 to 21 highway.

Do they get better mileage above 78 mph? I have a Montana that gets its best mileage at highway speeds that would make the driver well deserving of a ticket!

I only get like 15mpg lol might be me, might be the .3.08 gears, might be my tahoe idk all maintenance has been done lol

 

[Sparksalot]

The last time I was there it was called the Nimitz Museum and now it's been completely remodelled and called the National Museum of the Pacific War. Ranger museum? Do tell!

The dog is a good boy, the other two took to him right away. I thought we were going to get two once we moved into our new home but mine like many women has little self-control and told us just before we left what it would take to detour to Arkansas and get the dog! It was less expensive to have them drive him down to us though I wonder how much the owner made driving a 1-ton dually 9 hours each way!

I meant the Texas Ranger museum you visited.

Driving my Hoe 9 hours isn't cheap. Dually's gotta be worse.

 

[swathdiver]

I meant the Texas Ranger museum you visited.

Driving my Hoe 9 hours isn't cheap. Dually's gotta be worse.

That was a great museum. There were tons of 1911s from former Rangers and a great many were in .38 Super. They also had cap and ball revolvers that people could pick up, Italian repros of the famous Colt Walker. Fredericksburg also had a Texas Ranger museum but did not get to it this time around.

 

[Sparksalot]

That was a great museum. There were tons of 1911s from former Rangers and a great many were in .38 Super. They also had cap and ball revolvers that people could pick up, Italian repros of the famous Colt Walker. Fredericksburg also had a Texas Ranger museum but did not get to it this time around.

The county sheriff here is a retired Ranger. About a month ago, we were at an event together, so I spent some time shooting the breeze with him about his duty guns in both roles. He carries a 1911.