thanks for all the replies and good wishes. It's nice to have support from my fellow pool fanatics here
I didn't get on the road until about midnight on Wed. I am very limited on what I can lift and carry, so I knew that moving all my junk from Point A to point B was going to take a long time and was going to hurt like hell. So I ask a couple of guys from the pool hall if they could help me move a mattress and boxspring and a chair. I was only 5 blocks from the pool hall and it would have took 5 mins. They said ok. So Wed I go over there and I'm getting all this I don't want to do it.. what will you give me for doing it and all that crap. I thought they would actually help me, but when they go over there, the whining continued, so I just said "forget it.. you guys don't want to help me, so just leave. And they did.. laughing about it. I mean C'mon, we're talking helping someone that would take 5 mins of your time. Boy, I'm telling you, I don't know how some people live with themselves.
So I ended up doing it all myself and am paying the price bigtime. Can hardly walk and my entire body is screaming at me, telling me what a idiot I am. A fall down a flight of stairs didn't help either.:embarrassed2: Very weird that I own absolutely nothing, but somehow managed to fill up every square inch of a 5x8 trailer and my car.
My car azz is dragging.. hehe.. Poor thing.
Drove to my Mom's and got there about 4:00 am. fell asleep right away and left about 2:00 pm Thursday. Drove to Denver and got there late. Somehow managed to get stuck in standstill traffic on I25 just south of Denver. One of those traffic jams that suddenly start up again and you have no clue why you were stopped for 45 mins on a Interstate in the first place.
I'll get on the road again about 11:00 am this morning and plan on going down 25 to Albuquerque (had to look at map on how to spell that). My buddy SJD reminded me that I need to figure out what route to take, since it's winter and we're talking about going over the Rocky Mountains. I completely didn't even think about that and had planned on taking I80 to I70 to I-15 and be done with it. He reminded me that highways could be closed, they could require me to have chains on my car and pulling a full trailer in a car with very steep inclines could tear it to hell quick.
So I needed to alter my route. He said it would be best to go all the way down to I-10 if I could, but that is a good bit of way out of the way. I think I will gamble and take I-25 down to Albuquerque and maybe take I-40 across Arizona. I think the weather might be ok... but I have no idea what to expect on the hills., Anyone made a trip that involved taking I-40 across AZ? Is there a ton of up and down hills and steep inclines?
Does anyone have a better route they would suggest?
Here's a pic of me taking I-40 and also showing I-10 below it that bypasses the Rocky Mountains.
It's putting quite a strain on the old car, hauling this trailer. It is pulling hard, so the thought of trying to climb some huge mountain all day, scares me to death. Decisions, decisions
If you got any ideas, post them quick, as I will check in before I get on I-40.
I'm getting about 14 mpg, so it's killing me to fill up the tank (50-60 bucks) and drive 50 miles and see it's already down to 3/4 a tank. Brutal. I can only imagine what my mpg would be if I spent all day climbing mountains.
here's to a stress free day today.:thumbup:
Hopefully I can get some cool pictures today. Too much driving in the dark, leads to empty camera media cards. Today I want to make up some good time and have a great day!
Thanks again all of you! I'll give you another update later!
EDIT: Oh, I forgot... I got to see a couple of places I always enjoyed going to when I lived in the South. Waffle House and Jack in the Box.
I'm going to do that scattered, smothered, covered and something else in a few.
Oh.. and Super 8.. sorry for Al Bundyizing your toliet
One of these days, I too hope to have landed an employment opportunity associated with billiards/pool.
