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… Bruce or otherwise? We have a number of Road Scholars here, keen to know to what lengths you’ve gone?
NC to northern CA and OR is a piddling 3000 miles but I drove 8500 on a three week tour in 2005. I went through about half a dozen national parks and saw the Noisemakers five of six shows in a row starting in Saratoga CA and ending in Salt Lake City. Skipped Seattle and had standing room only at a field covered by blankets at dawn in Roseburg OR. I totally forgot that I had a cousin in Redding CA where the second show played. Last year I forgot I was going to stop at the Antique Archaeology store outside Cedar Rapids on my way back from Des Moines, but these things happen to the road weary sometimes. I hate crossing the country (all the way to Reno) only to find something closed that I’ve missed multiple times like the NV Railroad Museum or the Black Hole of Los Alamos surplus store, or MacDonald Observatory surrounded by wildfires while I was passing through with too many miles to go.
Come on, I know you all have stories too,
you don’t have to match my odometer – I
used to be a professional driver…I don’t have the fortitude of the Guinness Goon — never have, never will. Particularly now that I’m approaching my dotage.
Furthest to see Bruce: From Bratt to Boston solo. Going down not too bad, coming back was a bitch. Had to actually slap myself a couple of times, and crank Zeppelin’s “Presence,” then “In Through The Out Door.”
Runners up would include Tampa to Jacksonville (return trip) for Metallica 1992 (I drove from Gainesville back to Tampa) and Fishbone 1994 (return trip) Gainesville to Tampa. Both of those return journeys (pun intended) took place after midnight and solo. Hard-ass shit.
None of that is meant to be bragging. Far from it; I’ve never been one to be able to endure long slogs to see musical acts. I draw the line at around 2.5 hours….otherwise I’d be going postal on some peeps….
Yours truly,
T
Driving I’d say 3 hours.
Flew to Hampton Bay Days Virginia. from Newark NJ
Drove to Virginia from NJ for SCKBSTD
Takavl, post: 8659 wrote:I don’t have the fortitude of the Guinness Goon — never have, never will. Particularly now that I’m approaching my dotage.
Furthest to see Bruce: From Bratt to Boston solo. Going down not too bad, coming back was a bitch. Had to actually slap myself a couple of times, and crank Zeppelin’s “Presence,” then “In Through The Out Door.”
Runners up would include Tampa to Jacksonville (return trip) for Metallica 1992 (I drove from Gainesville back to Tampa) and Fishbone 1994 (return trip) Gainesville to Tampa. Both of those return journeys (pun intended) took place after midnight and solo. Hard-ass shit.
None of that is meant to be bragging. Far from it; I’ve never been one to be able to endure long slogs to see musical acts. I draw the line at around 2.5 hours….otherwise I’d be going postal on some peeps….
Yours truly,
T
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