Oof. There are some impressive road feats on here!
She’s been on my mind lately. I saw her name referenced someplace maybe it was on DBR maybe it was you. With seemingly another mass shooting every single day we seem to be living in a perverse sort of reality that conjures up images from her short stories. What I thought, was bizarre and out of the ordinary as a teen reader of her works has now become normal and common place. America is truly struggling for its soul at the moment.
It is possible, without familial help pumping gas. My car will only go around 600 miles on a single tank, but you can still find some full service gas stations.*
And there's always the trucker's friend, 1.7 liter version.
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*Are full service gas stations as numerous as EV charging stations now? Just wondering, for a friend.
First mission trip to Shiprock - about 900 miles in one day,. We did switch drivers about every 2 hours. Two vans, 4 drivers, 6 youth.
The longest tandem drive straight through I've done was 1,545 from McMinnville, OR to Fargo, ND. It was with House P's next door neighbor freshman year. He was in ROTC with me and we were both on the west coast. I flew up from LA and we drove the 24+ hours to Fargo. I drove about 4 of the 24 hours, it was his car. We crashed at his grandparents house for a day and a half then continued the drive. The second leg was from Fargo to Lexington, KY and the final leg to Durham..
One time in grad school, I took a spring break road trip from Greenville, NC to Key West by way of Columbus, OH.
I've driven back and forth across this country several times, but they weren't speed runs. Especially when accounting for car break downs.
Summer trip during college. Drove NC to Chicago to visit family, then to Seattle (and a ten day sailing trip with family there). Down to the Bay Area then back to NC. About 6 weeks on the road, mostly on the cheap, just camping. By “camping” just a sleeping bag on the ground.
Climax Molybdenum offered an easy, free place to camp. The name stuck with me.
-jk