First roadtrip

[Dirteatr717]

hey everyone i had my first roadtrip yesterday from LI NY all the way to south jersey. driving even relativley close to NYC with a stick no less is the biggest pain in the rear!!!! other then that is was a great trip.

anybody have a good first roadtrip story?

[WBKrazy]

the first real roadtrip i took on my own was moving from mass to ohio after high school... i had a '93 2wd 4cyl. 5spd. isuzu pickup with a cap on it and managed to fit almost everything i had at the time into the back of it...made it out there no problems, so here are some more memorable ones: another time i went from cleveland, oh to marengo, in and back in just under 24 hours.. headed down there to pick up a ford ranger given to my college roomate by his aunt, we left cleveland around 5, got down there around midnight, we worked out in the bitter cold to get the damm thing running and then left shortly after daybreak ... on the way back the isuzu started losing power and i was stuck at 45 on the highway... pulled over at a rest stop and figured out that the accelerator cable was stretched out :dunno: ... taped a bunch of napkins in between the cable and bracket to take up the slack and drove it like that till i sold it a year later :rotf: ... and one other time i was headed back to mass from ohio for christmas break and almost got stranded in buffalo in the middle of a raging blizzard that locked down the city for almost 2 weeks.. rt. 90 was closed off, and they were rerouting everyone to some backroad (rt.20 i think)... the snow was coming down so hard that i literally couldn't see the end of the hood on the isuzu, and being 2wd and all i have no idea how i got through that... i was bringing another kid from mass home to his place and he said his dad would pay for a hotel room for the night if we wanted to wait out the storm, and i said "you're nuts, if we stop we'll never make it out of here"... so we kept going and as soon as we got out of buffalo 3 hrs. later the roads were clear the rest of the way...

[Pete M]

eh, I've taken more roadtrips that I can count. apparently I was weened on them early too. I was less than a year old when my mom and my grandmother drove down to DisneyWorld and back with me. rumor has it they returned home to Michigan with a scant $2.86 left in their pockets. :shake: though gas was cheaper way back when.

Best one yet was definitely the trip out to Moab. Just the four of us; me, my dog, my truck, and the open road. :D With good friends and fun places waiting for me at each destination, and the "excitement" of catastrophic failure haunting me the entire 3 weeks/ 3000 miles. Yup, that was a good roadtrip. :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wildman]

the first real roadtrip i took on my own was moving from mass to ohio after high school... i had a '93 2wd 4cyl. 5spd. isuzu pickup with a cap on it and managed to fit almost everything i had at the time into the back of it...made it out there no problems, so here are some more memorable ones: another time i went from cleveland, oh to marengo, in and back in just under 24 hours.. headed down there to pick up a ford ranger given to my college roomate by his aunt, we left cleveland around 5, got down there around midnight, we worked out in the bitter cold to get the damm thing running and then left shortly after daybreak ... on the way back the isuzu started losing power and i was stuck at 45 on the highway... pulled over at a rest stop and figured out that the accelerator cable was stretched out :dunno: ... taped a bunch of napkins in between the cable and bracket to take up the slack and drove it like that till i sold it a year later :rotf: ... and one other time i was headed back to mass from ohio for christmas break and almost got stranded in buffalo in the middle of a raging blizzard that locked down the city for almost 2 weeks.. rt. 90 was closed off, and they were rerouting everyone to some backroad (rt.20 i think)... the snow was coming down so hard that i literally couldn't see the end of the hood on the isuzu, and being 2wd and all i have no idea how i got through that... i was bringing another kid from mass home to his place and he said his dad would pay for a hotel room for the night if we wanted to wait out the storm, and i said "you're nuts, if we stop we'll never make it out of here"... so we kept going and as soon as we got out of buffalo 3 hrs. later the roads were clear the rest of the way...

 

 

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There ya go knocking Buffalo and the all the Blizzards we get :oops:

 

We get a couple of "lake effect" storms (like the one yesterday) per year, and you just happen to be in one of them :dunno:

 

Fact is........Syracuse get's almost twice as much snow than Buffalo does each year.

 

Oh, and if you were on Rt 20, that runs parallel with the thruway (I-90) and is a 'major' Intrastate thru here, and you were only 4 block from my shop :D

 

You want to compare driving in blizzards.........I drove 90 mile thru the Blizzard of '77, from Wellsville (collage) to Lancaster, only to be stopped 4 miles from home, because of the 6 foot high drift on Rt 20/78 :fs1: Spent the night in a little dinner with 65+ other people, the dinner only held about 30 at the most, and next morning.......the dinner owner had a front end loader, that dug the drift out, and we were only able to go north on Rt 20/78, one lane, in some places, until I got to Lancaster, 2 lanes on a 5 lane highway, only to dig out my parents driveway that had 4 feet of snow in it :eek: That was the one that did shut down the city for over a week, and at some of the intersections, you could walk the drifts and had to step over the traffic lights that were buried in the drifts, and of course the cars that were still buried there too.

[WBKrazy]

the first real roadtrip i took on my own was moving from mass to ohio after high school... i had a '93 2wd 4cyl. 5spd. isuzu pickup with a cap on it and managed to fit almost everything i had at the time into the back of it...made it out there no problems, so here are some more memorable ones: another time i went from cleveland, oh to marengo, in and back in just under 24 hours.. headed down there to pick up a ford ranger given to my college roomate by his aunt, we left cleveland around 5, got down there around midnight, we worked out in the bitter cold to get the damm thing running and then left shortly after daybreak ... on the way back the isuzu started losing power and i was stuck at 45 on the highway... pulled over at a rest stop and figured out that the accelerator cable was stretched out :dunno: ... taped a bunch of napkins in between the cable and bracket to take up the slack and drove it like that till i sold it a year later :rotf: ... and one other time i was headed back to mass from ohio for christmas break and almost got stranded in buffalo in the middle of a raging blizzard that locked down the city for almost 2 weeks.. rt. 90 was closed off, and they were rerouting everyone to some backroad (rt.20 i think)... the snow was coming down so hard that i literally couldn't see the end of the hood on the isuzu, and being 2wd and all i have no idea how i got through that... i was bringing another kid from mass home to his place and he said his dad would pay for a hotel room for the night if we wanted to wait out the storm, and i said "you're nuts, if we stop we'll never make it out of here"... so we kept going and as soon as we got out of buffalo 3 hrs. later the roads were clear the rest of the way...

 

 

:shake:

 

There ya go knocking Buffalo and the all the Blizzards we get :oops:

 

We get a couple of "lake effect" storms (like the one yesterday) per year, and you just happen to be in one of them :dunno:

 

Fact is........Syracuse get's almost twice as much snow than Buffalo does each year.

 

Oh, and if you were on Rt 20, that runs parallel with the thruway (I-90) and is a 'major' Intrastate thru here, and you were only 4 block from my shop :D

 

You want to compare driving in blizzards.........I drove 90 mile thru the Blizzard of '77, from Wellsville (collage) to Lancaster, only to be stopped 4 miles from home, because of the 6 foot high drift on Rt 20/78 :fs1: Spent the night in a little dinner with 65+ other people, the dinner only held about 30 at the most, and next morning.......the dinner owner had a front end loader, that dug the drift out, and we were only able to go north on Rt 20/78, one lane, in some places, until I got to Lancaster, 2 lanes on a 5 lane highway, only to dig out my parents driveway that had 4 feet of snow in it :eek: That was the one that did shut down the city for over a week, and at some of the intersections, you could walk the drifts and had to step over the traffic lights that were buried in the drifts, and of course the cars that were still buried there too.

 

 

 

not knockin buffalo, i had some good times out there.... partied out there a couple times with some college buddies who were from there... i knew it was gonna be a bad storm before i left cleveland, they were goin on about it all day on the news the day before... i figured if i left early enough i'd miss it.... shoulda just banged outta school and left first thing in the morning instead of 3 in the afternoon... i know all about the lake effect snow, i lived 1 mile from lake erie for 2 years... and i'm pretty sure now that it was rt. 20 cause we followed it for a while until we caught 90 again.. all i remember about that stretch was stopping at the indian reservation right off the exit for coffee and cigs...

[Dirteatr717]

@ Pete.. ive seen your roadtrip pictures on picturetrail, Looks like you had a helluvah time!!!

The things that happen on roadtrips never seem to happen while driving around town lol