Road Trip/Where's Waldo

[shoota77]

Thanks for the tips! If I go through Louisville I'll definitely give you a call, R.T. I'm sitting in DC right now. Very uneventful 6 1/2 hours from Beantown...little traffic in NYC but that's it. The weirdest thing I saw was what looked like New York Times headquarters in Jersey. That about sums up the excitement level of the day. Tomorrow off to Indiana U...

[ScottinMA]

Waldo,

How are you posting OTR? Stopping at Starbucks or driving along seeking WIFIs in residential areas??

[mbeach]

Are you driving up the ALcan this time of year? I figured that all of the services would be closed.

[shoota77]

Little check in from the trip so far...I'm sitting right now in a little coffee shop with free wifi in madison, wi. trip has been amazing thus far, lots of fun some places too much . i spotted a VX for about 2 seconds in chicago. in the wrigleyville area kinda by roscoe st. and paulina. no other sightings...also, no problems with the vx. tomorrow i'm off to boulder. says its a 16 hour drive, so we'll see if i make it. im pretty sure ill make it up the alcan with no problems, if i have some it'll just add to the adventure. take care...

[mbeach]

What a great drive!

Last time (well, the only time) that I went up the Alcan, I crossed over in N. Dakota, and went through Regina. I never drove as far west as Colorado.

The wife and I are planning on doing it again, and the VX might be just the right truck for the job.

Have a safe trip!

[shoota77]

Hello again...this time sitting in the Western State College library in Gunnison, Colorado. Well, since the last post there hasn't been too much that happened. I stayed in Wisconsin an extra couple days to get some shots and perscriptions (more on that later). I was parked in a parking garage that had a 48 hour limit so during my trip there i had to pull out and back in a couple times. The lady in the pay booth always said how cool my car was (she was about 70). The last time I left there was a guy in the pay booth with another lady and she told him, "Look! It's your dream car." We talked for a couple minutes about how he always wanted one and had never seen one in person. Always nice. Also, the building manager at my friends apartment saw it and asked if it was a 2005. I said no. Finally, my front right tire was rubbing against the cladding (new Yoko 285/60) and so i took it to a shop to have them trim. None of the guys there had seen it, and my mechanic dude thought it was frontwheel. But, they did it for free and I was on my way. 15 hours or so later i was in Boulder. I skiied a day, now i'm visiting Alaskan friends here and tomorrow I'm off to Montana. Here's where it gets interesting. I'm going to Thailand to do some Tsunami rebuilding and thought I would have enough time to make it to AK. Unfortunately, I wasted time in CHicago and Madison (where i got tetnus/flu/japanese encephylitis shots and typhoid, malaria and travellers diah...diar...dyar...travellers poop pills. (hope i won't have to use that last one) So, i'll be going from montana to seattle, to eugene, to san francisco, and to SLC where I'll park the car with friends and take off to thailand on the 12th. Wow, long post...well, back to finishing my last piece of writing left over from last semester. Thanks for reading.

-Li

[AlaskaVX]

FYI- I heard that gas in Canada is reaching $3.75/gal.
Have fun in Thailand!