2005 BBQ possibilities.
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chcr
Too cute for words
tonksy said:head count!
who is coming?
I'll try to come, bring the wife too if possible. She may have to teach a summer school nursing class though. Surely she'll be able to get the weekend off. The big obstacle for us is that we'll be going to Memphis for an ONS (Oncology Nursing Ass'n) convention in October, and money is goiing to be very tight (it's at the Peabody). Still, it's only a few hours drive and surely we can afford a motel for a night or two. Count us provisionally in for now. Oh yeah, she works every other weekenc, so Dara's coming will be contingent on what weekend. You guys pick one, she'll come if she can.
ClaireBear
Banned
Professur said:
Just buy a large wheeled suitcase... you're wife's a petite little lady right?
Professur
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ClaireBear said:Just buy a large wheeled suitcase... you're wife's a petite little lady right?
Hell no. But it's not the missus that I've got to work about. It's the three kids. Only one of them could handle the hard drive, and she'll still be in school in May. Bombing the run is 19 hours of brutal driving. The most comfortable car seats in the world feel like a stone bench after half that. Children's car seats max out at no more than 2 hours .... with diapers. So I've got the following options.
Completely solo. That's 38 hours of driving, with a 2 day turnover. No point in staying beyond the events without the family. Also have to deal with sulking from the ones who don't get to go.
Carpool with another MTL OTC member. Same as above, but a bit easier driving.
With the missus, no kids. Easiest on my nerves, spare driver, but I've got to find nearly a weeks worth of babysitting for three kids, of disparate ages. I'm not so lovable that I've managed to rack up the kind of favours needed to pull that off. And more than double the personal expenses.
With the missus and V2.0. Easier on my nerves, spare driver. Hard on V2.0, but she's tough enough, and done this sort of thing before. Finding babysitting just got a whole lot easier, but it's still gonna put me in karma hell. Inflate personal expenses, because it just rolled over into a family vacation.
With the whole shooting match. Can you say vacation from hell? Ballpark three weeks round trip. $3000 ballpark cost. No more than 4 hours driving a day. Cost of a mechanical tuneup half way there. (Kruz, you any good with GM?) And the joy of finding amusement for an 8 year old, a 3 year old, and a 1 year old.
Or simply giving the whole thng a miss.
Which would you pick?
ClaireBear
Banned
Its a toughy... but what I'd do is this... hold a similar event at your place at exactly the same time... therefore taking in all the Canadian and the Northern American OTC'ers...
But then... I don't have a lot of friends! 
Seriously though.. I'd personally give it a miss... even if this thing were kicking off in Blighty I still wouldn't go...
There'll be other parties... the chilblains just couldn't take it... too young.
But then... I don't have a lot of friends!
Seriously though.. I'd personally give it a miss... even if this thing were kicking off in Blighty I still wouldn't go...
me said:
There'll be other parties... the chilblains just couldn't take it... too young.
Professur
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Inkara1 said:
In your shoes, I'd have already booked the time off. Single guy in a compact car. Your rear seat goes down, doesn't it? Foam camping pad and sleeping bad. Drive 4 hours, break for 20 mins, another 4, break for an hour, another bunch (as long as you can safely) then nip in the back for 3 hours sack time. Then repeat. You'll arrive without too much damage. One good full night's sleep and all you'll have to deal with is jetlag.
unclehobart
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Twixt HL, Tonks, and I... Its looking like:
1 king bed (couple) independent room
1 queen (couple) independent room
1 double (single) independent room
2 singles (kids beds) independent room
1 queen, 1 double matress on standby without frames... but way better than any floor.
The way I figure it is that the kids beds can be stacked out of the way and the queen brought in so it can be good for a couple that doesn't mind a lack of amenities.
The free floating double can be used in the front room. All that needs to be done is hanging up a drape for privacy.
That means 4 singles at a minimum for my place with the option to go to 6 for couples. (7 really as one person could always lump it on our couch without privacy)
2 for HL's king bedroom, plus Prof doing his thing with his airmat in the LAN room.
That comes to 7 at a raw minimum with a max of 9 for couples.
HL, TOnks, and I are of course sleeping in our standard arrangements. That makes 10 covered.
Kruz would also be out of his own home.. 11
Catacom ... borderline. He lives 80~ minutes away. He may wish to do a single night sleepover. Your call Mr Cato. I think the cost of fuel would make it easier to stay over for the night... also save you about three hours of your life and be a touch softer on your wounds.
I think that covers about 80% of us does it not?
1 king bed (couple) independent room
1 queen (couple) independent room
1 double (single) independent room
2 singles (kids beds) independent room
1 queen, 1 double matress on standby without frames... but way better than any floor.
The way I figure it is that the kids beds can be stacked out of the way and the queen brought in so it can be good for a couple that doesn't mind a lack of amenities.
The free floating double can be used in the front room. All that needs to be done is hanging up a drape for privacy.
That means 4 singles at a minimum for my place with the option to go to 6 for couples. (7 really as one person could always lump it on our couch without privacy)
2 for HL's king bedroom, plus Prof doing his thing with his airmat in the LAN room.
That comes to 7 at a raw minimum with a max of 9 for couples.
HL, TOnks, and I are of course sleeping in our standard arrangements. That makes 10 covered.
Kruz would also be out of his own home.. 11
Catacom ... borderline. He lives 80~ minutes away. He may wish to do a single night sleepover. Your call Mr Cato. I think the cost of fuel would make it easier to stay over for the night... also save you about three hours of your life and be a touch softer on your wounds.
I think that covers about 80% of us does it not?
ClaireBear
Banned
Professur said:
Man! I couldn't deal with all that shit... my butt starts to give me jip on a car journey to York... 2 hours!!!!!
Professur said:
Pish posh...we drove to NFLD straight through (20ish hours to the boat) with a 2 year old who got car sick...my parents says it wasn't bad at all except for the him puking part...I was 7 at the time btw.
And...a single guy...pffffft if a lady who is old enough to me my mother (oh wait, she IS my mother!) can do the stretch to the boat with nothing but a half hour nap...the he should beable to to
unclehobart
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Not to mention said drive home. Run some MPG estimates for cost. A flight may be saner.Inkara1 said:
..not to mention lost productivity days for work. 4 days versus something like 9-10.
Professur
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Nixy said:Pish posh...we drove to NFLD straight through (20ish hours to the boat) with a 2 year old who got car sick...my parents says it wasn't bad at all except for the him puking part...I was 7 at the time btw.
And...a single guy...pffffft if a lady who is old enough to me my mother (oh wait, she IS my mother!) can do the stretch to the boat with nothing but a half hour nap...the he should beable to to
Solo driving isn't the same, Nixy. It's damn dangerous, if you're not paying attention to resting. Anyone who's ever driven long enough to get the nods knows that. Just a second person, not even a driver, adds hours to your abilities (provided they're not snoring).
CB, I've dealt with worse. On one run, I had a full load of computers in the read of the van. When I hit the wall, I pulled out a few and stuck them on the front seat, and climbed into the hole for three hours kip. Kinda comfy, actually.
ClaireBear
Banned
Professur said:
Better man than I Prof... (seeing as I'm a woman!) Although I did once sleep in a box...
unclehobart
New Member
I still cringe when I think about my one nap run to Saskatoon, Sk from here in Atlanta. That was right at 2000 miles with one 20 minute snack/walkabout in Missouri and a 90 nap somwhere near the South Dakota/North Dakota border... and in a truck with 18.5 mpg on the highway. You could almost hear the sucking sound of dollars out of my wallet. The only thing that kept me going was the sattelite radio.
