Nutek

Family Truckster.

Jan Alaska

Worse one of us will be driving the 20 or 26ft uhaul with car trailer the other will be driving the Merc with the dogs and a motorcycle trailer (we might be able to get by without this if we can get the motorcycles in the truck) Its going to be err .. interesting.

I like Jan Michigan: the sequel

N1cky

Urgh! That's crap. Driving together can feel like an adventure, seperately just feels like a chore. When we moved from So Cal to No Cal and drove seperately was bad enough.

Anyhoo. Good luck with the move, I'm sure it will be lovely to be back near your family

Scouse Express

Just did a 2,100 mile round trip, from Eastern Iowa to Columbia, SC and back. Left here on Wednesday Evening at 6pm and got back home at 4:30pm, today.

Utterly shagged-out now, though.

Work just gets in the way of my BE time.


Jim.

paddingtongreen

A pair of phones plugged in for continuous use with bluetooth headsets should do it.

I drove from west of Philadelphia to Denver back in 1968 in my 6 month old Camaro RS with a small Uhaul trailer. I think that if I had driven more slowly I would have arrived sooner, running at 90MPH with all four barrels open meant frequent stops for gas. The main things I remember were being given a box of peanut brittle (I hated peanut brittle but they insisted) every time I stopped for gas at Stuckey's; and the immense thrill when I went around a bend and over a rise in Kansas and saw the Rockies in the distance.

Bob

Have a fun and safe trip back!

Englishtart

Sounds like a fun trip, apart from the separate vehicles, I hate driving but i'm a great passenger/navigator


It's going to be great you being closer to the Grandkids

Nutek

Maybe you can find some stuff here...

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/



Worlds largest ball of string etc.

Cardienscarf

Hope it all goes well! That's quite the drive.

Steerpike

That's all well and good but you have to be careful about popular areas and weekends ... you may find yourself without a room at all if not careful. I took that approach last month when driving from Scottsdale to SF via LA; I booked a room the same day and found myself having to stay in a less favorable area / motel due to everything being booked up Saturday night. I ended up getting the last available room at a place that was only so-so. Go to a tourist destination and you can end up having to stay miles away. I did the same on the return journey, but this time went through the sierras, down 395 and stayed at my favorite Lone Pine motel.

That seems to be a fabulous idea - you should be able to get a pair of cheap 'walkie talkies' that would work at the distances involved, rather than relying on any kind of cell coverage. The route shown doesn't inspire me with confidence for continuous cell coverage!

Driving two cars does sound yukky, although at least it solves the problem of who gets to drive! I hate being a passenger, love being a driver. Also makes the music selection less contentious!

My biggest problem these days is getting suddenly drowsy when driving. I have learned to deal with it - just pull over and nap for 10 minutes seems to do the trick - but I wish I could avoid it with caffeine or something. Only seems to happen during the afternoon ... seems related to motion, warmth, sun, etc ... very strange.

I'm planning a 5-day road trip from Scottsdale to SF later this month, possibly via Utah ... looking forward to that!

Michael

That used to happen to me when I regularly skied north Lake Tahoe on the way back after the weekend. Prior to leaving I was wide awake but as soon as I started climbing the summit, I'd get drowsy but as soon as I hit the peak 20 minutes later, I was wide awake. Initially I thought it had to do with the sun setting so I waited unit it got dark but the same thing happened.

Jan Alaska

We really need to book motels as we have dogs and I'm going to guess there are a limited amount of hotels that will allow a 100lb ball of fur into their rooms.
We have the communications thing worked out, cell phones won't work as there are large parts of the AlCan that have no service so we are going with 2 way radio/walkie talkies. Hubby is into ham radio so he will probably have his stuff with him too.

Scouse Express

Book Hotels in advance. Some that allow Pets have size restrictions.

joto

We used AAA to book hotel/motel rooms that allowed dogs, for our moving home journey, as our dogs are large as well and there are 3 of them. Sometimes there is an extra charge for them.

Steerpike

Are you lucky enough to have jobs that allow you to move back and forth like this? Or are you retired? Sorry, I guess there are threads on this that I never read in the past!