lokie
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1400 miles at average 70/80 miles per hour.
Gridlock may vary your mileage. lol
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Closer to 2600 miles, round trips included.
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Gridlock may vary your mileage. lol
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Closer to 2600 miles, round trips included.
raratt
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#1. Have you seen the traffic in LA?
#2. Distances in the desert are measured in hours...
cannabineer
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I find desert driving to be very relaxing, unless the local concentration of impatient toy-haulers spikes.
raratt
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Doing it for a couple days gets really old though. You drive for a few hours to get to the hill on the horizon and when you crest it there is another one a few hours away.
cannabineer
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I rather enjoy hours of pristine nothing.Doing it for a couple days gets really old though. You drive for a few hours to get to the hill on the horizon and when you crest it there is another one a few hours away.
lokie
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The company paid $0.50 per mile, I looked at the windshield time like a second job on the weekends.
I could stay in a hotel and collect meal per diem ($$) or drive home and collect mileage reimbursement ($$$)
and see my family.
injinji
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Doing it for a couple days gets really old though. You drive for a few hours to get to the hill on the horizon and when you crest it there is another one a few hours away.
You guys should hike a few days. Gives you a new perspective on mileage.
raratt
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Wish I could.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
That sounds dangerously like it involves camping.
injinji
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Me too. Two day trips is about all I can manage these days. And that is loop trails or there and backs.
I kid about section hiking the Florida Trail. The FT (aka a county road) is about a mile from the house. After a couple miles of road walk the trail goes into the woods along the river for two miles. There are two campsites in that stretch. I will walk from the house late in the afternoon, camp on the river and walk back the next morning. Maybe micro section hiking?
injinji
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Yes, you will need to sleep. If the trail was crowded, you would learn why Hiker Midnight is such a big deal. Anyone coming into camp after 9:30, especially if they are using a white headlamp, would be persona non grata if they didn't leave camp too early to snub.
MICHI-CAN
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I so wish everyone could have spent a summer or two taking the hike in camping/fishing trips I did as a kid. Got beat for taking taters,onions, garlic and BACON. Not disappearing with a friend or three for 4-5 days. LOL. Can't do that now. But outdoors is outdoors.
injinji
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For a lot of years I went camping a week every Christmas. Not hiking, I didn't pick up that bug until later, but a week on the river. My friends came and went as their work dictated, but the floor where I work was sanded and refinished the week between Christmas and New Years for years. So I had a solid week and a half off.
HGCC
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MICHI-CAN
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They just mailed tickets and traffic cams plate on I-80 to MI. LOL. But yes. Almost prefer paying $5 extra to speed on the toll stretches. GRR!
HGCC
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Everyone I know has had some stupid cop encounter driving across Kansas with out of state plates (mostly on i70). I got pulled over during the tail end of a snowstorm by a cop sitting in the median...said I looked tired when I drove past him.
Anywho, hiking and camping are both great. Just dont do it Kansas.
Anywho, hiking and camping are both great. Just dont do it Kansas.
MICHI-CAN
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My bad. Old timers. I-70, I-80 I f up over and over. But I can tell how far from all the next country store. Keep your tank filled. LOL.
injinji
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I forget who wrote it, but I got a really nice fish cook book with the river house. Covers just about every species. Lots of high end outdoor/nature/science type books. I guess from when L was a kid.