Need a bed for DGRRXI

[Redshft]

You sir, are a bad influence. Unfortunately, I have learned that no-sleep in a 6000km 50+ hour of driving trip ends badly. Usually with me sleeping peacefully while people in the oncoming cars are screaming.

Still working out the details of the plan (a little more complicated this year as I need to get agreement from other people) but current penciled in plan was stop in Maine on Tuesday night for some shopping, pass through your neck of the woods on Wed and stop..well.. not sure yet. Depends if that other Caravan comes together.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by Redshft

You sir, are a bad influence. Unfortunately, I have learned that no-sleep in a 6000km 50+ hour of driving trip ends badly. Usually with me sleeping peacefully while people in the oncoming cars are screaming.

I'm sorry, but that is some funny funny shit. On the rd trip I would drive till I started halucenating, sleep till I wake up, drive some more. A 1-3 hr nap usually gave me enough to drive another 16-20 hrs. Of course I slept for like a week straight when I got home but that's another story.

Originally Posted by Redshft

Still working out the details of the plan (a little more complicated this year as I need to get agreement from other people) but current penciled in plan was stop in Maine on Tuesday night for some shopping, pass through your neck of the woods on Wed and stop..well.. not sure yet. Depends if that other Caravan comes together.

Which other Caravan? The canucks? They generally take a route that is much farther inland. The VA guys? There's 2 VA caravans that I know of, then there are a few of us that are thinking about driving to TX to "meet" someone before heading the DGRRXI So yeah, lemme know what you're planning, would love to cruise down with ya. And I haven't even mentioned this to any of my Jersery/NY friends yet and there is another guy right herre in CT, about 10 minutes away from me so it's gonna be fucking aweseome. Much better than the Honda I cruised down with a few years ago

Regarding your travel plans..... a few facts to help you decide/plan. If we make a stop in VA it'll be roughly a 6hr drive taking the more direct rt, but if I swing by Daves for anyreason, and one might be to pick someone up, it'll be closer to a 6.5-7 hr drive. Then it's about 7.5hrs to DGRRXI.

I don't know what your tolerance for driving is, or if you've got a set limit that you want to drive per day, but the outlets in ME aren't that far from me. Freeport is a little over 5 hrs away, Portland is a little under 5 hrs away. There are also some outlets in Clinton CT which are about an hr from me. So there are shopping options as well.

Since there are a few canadians in this thread, what are someo of your intended routes?

[Redshft]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Which other Caravan? The canucks? They generally take a route that is much farther inland. The VA guys? There's 2 VA caravans that I know of, then there are a few of us that are thinking about driving to TX to "meet" someone before heading the DGRRXI So yeah, lemme know what you're planning, would love to cruise down with ya. And I haven't even mentioned this to any of my Jersery/NY friends yet and there is another guy right herre in CT, about 10 minutes away from me so it's gonna be fucking aweseome. Much better than the Honda I cruised down with a few years ago

Regarding your travel plans..... a few facts to help you decide/plan. If we make a stop in VA it'll be roughly a 6hr drive taking the more direct rt, but if I swing by Daves for anyreason, and one might be to pick someone up, it'll be closer to a 6.5-7 hr drive. Then it's about 7.5hrs to DGRRXI.

I don't know what your tolerance for driving is, or if you've got a set limit that you want to drive per day, but the outlets in ME aren't that far from me. Freeport is a little over 5 hrs away, Portland is a little under 5 hrs away. There are also some outlets in Clinton CT which are about an hr from me. So there are shopping options as well.

Since there are a few canadians in this thread, what are someo of your intended routes?

The leading candidate was one of the VA caravan's that was mentioned in that other thread, but we're still a bit flexible. The other Canadians are two far inland. I'm just excited not to be doing the entire down and back as a single car this year.

We've allocated 3 days to get down there, which is around 8 hours per day. For the trip home, we're doing it in two days, which will be more like 14+ hours per day (+ time to stop for meals, gas etc.)
I've got a pretty high tolerance for putting miles on, but, I have 2 other (at least) cars I need to account for, plus my better half likes to have her meals at the proper times, get out of the car and stretch etc.
On the way down, Freeport happens to be about 8 hours from home, so it's a convenient stopping point for the first day, and then do a bit of shopping etc.
On the Wednesday, the ideal would be to travel within a radius of about 8 hours of Freeport (+ or -) that will have us within meet-up distance of a Thursday caravan. If that makes sense.
But, being Canadian, we'd be pretty easy going on the details.