Event Coverage 30K Road Trip--The Big Apple or Bust

Always enjot your posts, Jim, so this gets me subscribed to follow your adventure.

 

Very cool! Safe travels!

 

Robotics? I have been involved with some of that myself. What is the level of the completion?

 

Safe travels, Jim!

 

Have a great trip! Sounds like a blast!

 

A good road trip is food for the soul. Have fun.

 

Awesome. I'm in.

 

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Have great trip Jim. Had a job programming and operating material handling and welding robotic equipment in the early 90's. It was a blast.
Be sure to let us know if you need a hand along the way.

 

Can you post a general route so we can be prepared to help, or at least wave as you roar by?

 

Good luck with the trip , and the competition. Sounds like fun !

Great-looking suburban , BTW

 

Godspeed Jim ... Travel Safe ..Good luck with the competition..

Bob..

 

Hammer down be safe and have fun.

 

Cool, enjoy.
Al.

 

Chase that road Jim, if your students have your determination and GO FOR IT ATTITUDE they have already won! Joe

 

F.I.R.S.T in NYC? at Javits center?

 

Have a good trip, funny how East Coasters want to drive out to see Arizona. Bob

 

Safe travels.

 

yes indeed! Competition is Friday - Sunday, public is invited, it's free.

I'm half way across Texas, stopped for the night. Plan to go through Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, the Virginia hills, into Pennsylvania, and east into the city.

So far the old suburban is running pretty good. I had to add a quart of oil (the motor has over 200k miles on it), and it idles a little rough, probably related to the 200k miles, or the elevation change. I've even been running the AC, so I can keep the windows closed, and the noise down a bit. Even so, it's pretty darn loud in there at 75.

 

Welcome to Texas.

 

Thanks for all the good wishes!

A few pictures. In reverse order.


The ammeter is supposed to be like that...I think the needle is bent.

Looks like some rigs are waiting for oil prices to go back up.


They let you drive fast in Texas. I only go 75.

Welcome to Texas. Stay a couple days, it'll take you that long to drive through!
The mountains coming into Las Cruces are neat

 

Safe trip Squirrel. I love road trips - doing them and reading about them. Please post up lots of pics and tell us about what you see along the way. Cheers DB

 

I did a turn and burn from Nashville to Phoenix and back within a 3 day period. Everything is 300 miles from everything and I dislike Arkansas immensely...tell NYC I said hello and wave when you pass Nashville...safe travels!

 

Took I81 through Virginia two weeks ago, very nice ride, just watch your speed. Bob

 

Have a safe trip Jim.
Have you ever come across the robotics team from Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix?
They made a movie about them last year called Spare Parts, quite an inspiring story.
Bill

 

thanks! Yeah, if you watch the credits for the movie, you'll see my name...I have three of the robots from it sitting in my living room! I've known Fredi and Alan for a decade. My son mentors the Carl Hayden Falcons robotics team, for the past 5 years.

It's soggy out, thunderstorm rolling through. What fun. It's heading north, I'm heading east.

 

Be safe, Jim. Keep us with you.

 

Hope your wipers work, or you have some Rain-x!

 

you know, I forgot to put more rainx on it before I left! but the wipers do work ok.

 

Good for You! Hope you have a Great Time!
Interesting choice in Road Vehicle. I commute regularly from Boston to Daytona in my '97 Astro Shop Truck, and that's a harsh ride! Hopefully you'll have smooth roads until you hit the Northeast.