Who are you asking??? This thread was started way back almost 17 years ago in 2009, and the last time @Tom_and_Ray were Seen was Oct 24, 2011…
The long timers will have more info as to what happened…
@sj2128845_196054 The actual show ended in 2012 and Tom has passed away.
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I could relate my own experiences with a road trip from h e l l, but I’m pretty sure that I already contributed that experience many years ago, and I have no intention of scrolling through 500+ posts in order to see if I did mention anything.
Any road trip is a trip from he77 when the primary driver (in my case Dad) insisted that we were not lost, yet I, at the age of 7, had the maps in the back seat to prove we were.
He loathed maps, and loathed me using them to prove we were going the opposite way of which we should have been. He also would never stop into a gas station for directions, even if we actually needed gas. Not the “manly” thing to do, lol! He’d just pay for the fill-up, and keep driving the wrong way.
In 1983, for our third trip to Wildwood NJ, I began to see signs indicating we were approaching Bear Mountain and the Bear Mountain Bridge. Sure enough, in my Rand McNally Road Atlas, there it was: we had taken the nortbound exit off route 287 after the Tappan Zee Bridge, instead of the southbound.
After an hour going the wrong way, Dad finally relented, and we exited Rout 9 and got back on, going the correct way.
Now who’s the one who can’t find their way out of their own driveway, and uses phone maps all time?
Yours truly!
(An older thread as some may complain, but a fun one for sure)
Yeah I maybe already related and not going to read everything. I can’t think of many bad trips, but my folks and us were coming back from my sisters in KC. About a 400 mile trip. I had my diesel olds with about only 20k on it so still pretty new to me. I stopped in desmoines for fuel and noticed the pump seemed to be pulling from an empty tank. 200 miles to go. After about 80 miles the car would not go faster than about 20. I stopped at a truck stop but no mechanic on Sunday night, so we kept going at 20 for the next 100 miles, mostly on the shoulder. Tim3 we got home I fugured it was a plugged fuel filter but in addition I must have picked up some thing from the shoulder that broke my alternator belt.
Hobbled home and we dropped it off at the olds dealer. Dad was retired and driving for them so he connected with them Monday morning. All fixed Monday and think they did everything under warranty. After that i was changing filters about every few thousand miles and finally pulled tank and drained all the slime out of it. Pretty bad. Learned my lesson about choosing a good place for fuel. 400,000 miles later, I sold it.