My oldest graduated as a welder. My wife thought we should go from mi to Seattle for the event. I was working temp from the first of the year in the oil field and was in Arizona doing transfers covering a pipeline that was down. I found a class a motor home in mi and sent her to look at it. 1987 bever 36 ft dsl pusher. She bought it i came home 2 weeks later and picked it up. Worked on it for a week and made a 5k mile round trip with it pulling a car trailer with her Honda crv on the deck. It still needs some work but made the trip all right. Got a detroit 8.2 4 stroke v8 turbo dsl with Allison 4 speed in the back. Wife 2 kids and my mother that my wife hates. Yes I took a hand gun in case I had to commit suicide lol. Hard to buy one on the road. Was a really great trip. My mom has ms and gets motion sick but being air ride on all 4 corners she did fine. We went to the ocean and drove the beach, caught mt Rushmore and crazy horse and the bad lands on the way home. 100 miles from home getting fuel a hose started leaking while fueling but it was a quick fix. First vacation I've taken in 20 years. Had a lot of fun hope to do some more traveling with it soon but next time I'm flat towing the suburban instead of using a trailer and not taking mom. It's amazing what 230hp and 500ftlb torque will do. Averaged about 10 mpg with the beast and grossing about 30k lbs
That is awesome. I love every bit of that.
The "Great American Road Trip" is like a moon mission for regular folks.
If it all works out, That means you have planned well.
If you encounter problems and you fix them and recover and continue.
That means you have planned very well.
Your backup plan worked.
It may sound a bit stupid and maybe a bit over the top but you become the pilot of that sketch wagon and getting it home kinda harks back to the old time wagon masters who led the settlers to the coast.
Obviously not the same thing, not the same danger.
Unless your RV breaks down in tweaker town Seattle.
My ex wife and her family were from Detroit but we all lived in Denver.
They refused to fly to Detroit.
I suspect they were on the no fly list for being to dumb to fly and didnt tell me.
My last Denver to Detroit road trip was in my brand new 98 jeep cherokee.
With the 2.5 inch lift and the "Up Country" suspension
I had just put 31×10.5 Mud Terrains on it when I found out I was driving to Detroit with my mother in law in the back seat.
It went like this,
Rarhhw,rarrwh, wharrh, rarhhw wharrw raharrwh wharrw wahh..
nag, nag , nag, nag...
Rarhhwarhh, wharhh.rharrwewere whare
Nag, nag, nag, nag...
My ex wife decided that the only way to drown out the tire howl and the Mom howl was to play Moms CDs and crank the volume.
Celine Dion, Barbera Striesand, and Brittany Spears.
42 hours.
I didnt have a gun either.
We stopped at a Greyhound bus station and I was 30 seconds into a 60 second plan about faking my own death when they came back.
Bitching about the food at a ******* Greyhound bus station while not being on the bus or having to buy any of it.
Ive come to understand that this may be why I constantly down vote aggresive tires. and gas station food and travelling with In-laws and marriage.
I have undiagnosed disinegrating tread block truama.