Road Trip!

[rouar]

Wednesday: San Jose, CA -> Lovelock, NV
Thursday: Lovelock, NV -> Laramie, WY
Friday: Laramie, WY -> Des Moines, IA
Saturday: Des Moines, IA -> Newton Falls, OH
Sunday: Newton Falls, OH -> Millbury, MA

Lots of stories, tons of pics. Favorite diversions include seeing Millbury Ohio (the only other in the US) and the original Donner Pass road by Truckee, CA.

I'll edit the pics with captions later this week and delete the unfocused ones.






see all pics here




















Favorites - click on pic to see large version (I have 7Mp high res if anyone is interested)


California



Nevada



Utah - Salt Flats (my favorite photos)






Okalala, NE






Brooklyn, IA -- Community Of Flags




Millbury, OH



Watsonville, PA

[rouar]

SVT Spotting - 84 Eastbound near CT/NY border

[Snipey]

am i outta the loop or did you get an SVT!? lookin good either way.

is that a garmin c330? i got one the week before i went to cali and i woulda been lost without it. Best $225 ive spent in a while!

[frenchblueC2]

lol you've been dropping hints like a mad man lately. I never put 2+2 together when you were flying out to cali though.

Congrats Mattchew! It's about friggin time!!!

[BrApple]

yeah Matt, good to hear that you made it home after the trip.

Kim your right, Matt did drop alot of hints the last few weeks. I put all of them together after he told me about this trip when he spotted the #2137 I had ghosted into my signature last week

[RespectTheContour]

sweet car matt! must have been a fun ride back...my favorite pick was the navi pic that said "turn in 382 miles" haha

[rouar]

is that a garmin c330? i got one the week before i went to cali and i woulda been lost without it. Best $225 ive spent in a while!

It's my mom's. I have the C320, which I bought in May 07 after using my friend's C330, but mine only has New England loaded on it. You're right though, the GPS got me to job interviews and everything in between, it is one of the best investments I've made.

I bought FMR12B's SVT (from the classifieds). One-owner, all documentation!, rustfree car, low mileage, good condition. Even with travel expenses, it was still cheaper than similar-condition-mileage SVTs in the Northeast. I've been working the details with Chris for over a month, he was very thorough, answered my millions of questions and even made repairs so it would handle the trip. Overall I'm extremely satisfied with the car and the purchase, and was very thankful Chris was willing to wait while I worked out travel and time off work. I had been trying so hard not to let out the secret in the past month, but I'm horrible with secrets so it went into my posts more often than I wanted, haha.

The SVT did phenominally over the trip. The seats are so comfortable too! We were totally expecting some random issue -- or a Blues Brothers style blowup as we pulled in the driveway -- but no problems at all.

It was a little ironic bringing it to the salt flats, since I went to California specifically to get a rustfree car!

[ctmystique]

It was a little ironic bringing it to the salt flats, since I went to California specifically to get a rustfree car!

Luckily that dry salt isn't very harmful to your car. It's the wet, salty, slushy, icky, nasty, snowy stuff around here that really eats away at the cars.

Did I mention that I don't like winter?

[TGO]

wow. looks liek alot of fun.


though i would have hit the ground running in vegas....

[BrApple]

SVT Spotting - 84 Eastbound near CT/NY border

hey thats the exit for my parents house, so I wouldn't call that at the border. Looks to be a MA plate also ...