How many states?
Nov 11th 2007, 4:55 am
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How many states?
Me and the Mrs have just been looking at my old Rand McNally US/Canada road atlas to where I'd been. We worked out I've been to 29 of the 48 contiguous states.
Not that many really but not bad for just over a years trucking.
How many states have you lot done so far?
Not that many really but not bad for just over a years trucking.
How many states have you lot done so far?
Nov 11th 2007, 8:29 am
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Re: How many states?
Does going to Alberta and BC in a Campervan count
Nov 11th 2007, 10:58 am
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In 1996 when working in USA did all mainland states except Alaska on the mainland.
Been west to east in Canada but no higher than Churchill
Covered all of Australia more thimes than a deck of cards
When a volunteer for UN I drove East Timor
In the UK now have been to all main places except no higher then Inverness
Been west to east in Canada but no higher than Churchill
Covered all of Australia more thimes than a deck of cards
When a volunteer for UN I drove East Timor
In the UK now have been to all main places except no higher then Inverness
Nov 11th 2007, 1:26 pm
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Nov 11th 2007, 1:28 pm
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Nov 11th 2007, 1:36 pm
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Re: How many states?
In 1996 when working in USA did all mainland states except Alaska on the mainland.
Been west to east in Canada but no higher than Churchill
Covered all of Australia more thimes than a deck of cards
When a volunteer for UN I drove East Timor
In the UK now have been to all main places except no higher then Inverness
Been west to east in Canada but no higher than Churchill
Covered all of Australia more thimes than a deck of cards
When a volunteer for UN I drove East Timor
In the UK now have been to all main places except no higher then Inverness
I've never been to East Timor.
I've driven trucks in Australia (just the East coast), New Zealand, UK, Sweden (love the place) and Canada/US (obviously). I think my favourite place though is Japan. The people/culture are amazing.
Nov 11th 2007, 1:47 pm
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Japan, only a taxi to airport once, looked like a massive lot of Mitsubishi there.
Nov 11th 2007, 4:22 pm
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Re: How many states?
As you can see from my blog, I'm not trucking at the moment.
I've got a new career as an American housewife
Good luck in Feb though. It's a nice country, if a little chilly
Nov 11th 2007, 4:57 pm
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I understand that the Rockies are pretty, but if you want to look at them and make the obligatory ooh and ahh noises, park the damn camper!!! Don't just slow down to 20mph so you can look at them for longer.
(none of this is aimed at you, by the way, Raquelle.
. Just a pet peeve of mine )This is why I got peeved.
A little story:-
I was driving me truck from Vancouver to Calgary this summer just gone. Now, it's 603 miles (ish) from Vancouver to Calgary, or around 12 hours in a truck, depending how brave/stupid you're feeling. From Vancouver to Kamloops, it's all divided highway/dual carriageway (call it what you will), so passing slower traffic is no problem. However, after you get a few miles East of Kamloops on TCH1, it's mostly (not all, mostly) 2 lane, i.e. 1 lane each way. There are however passing lanes every now and then to allow you to pass slower traffic (most of them are on uphill sections, which is a real pain if you're driving a truck, but there ya go). Anyway, I'm following said RV, who is driving around 70kph (most of it's a 90 or 100kph limit) so him and his family can get a better look at the mountains/trees/sparrows/whatever. Now, I understand this and I also understand that 90/100kph is the maximum speed limit and not the required speed. I'm not the kind of trucker who tries to bully people into going faster just because I'm bigger/heavier than they are (the truck, not me). So I keep my distance and wait for a passing lane. So, we get to a passing lane and I start to pass, only for the gentleman in the RV to accelerate in order to stop me. As you can imagine, I wasn't best pleased. Anyway, benefit of the doubt, maybe he didn't realise what he's done, so I wait for the next passing lane, only for him to do exactly the same thing. Now I'm P***ed!! The guy does this all the way to Golden, where he stops. Now, I'm not normally an aggressive person without extreme provocation, but on this occasion I feel the need to point out the error of his ways, so I stop behind him and get out for a friendly chat
. I ask the gentleman why he felt the need to do what he'd been doing and he informed me that his reason for this was, and I quote "I didn't want you to get infront of me and spoil my view".I decided this was a good time to leave as I could feel myself becoming decidedly tetchy.
Nov 11th 2007, 5:19 pm
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Re: How many states?
At least sheep get out of the way and don't meander along all day at 25mph pointing at mountains
I understand that the Rockies are pretty, but if you want to look at them and make the obligatory ooh and ahh noises, park the damn camper!!! Don't just slow down to 20mph so you can look at them for longer.
(none of this is aimed at you, by the way, Raquelle. . Just a pet peeve of mine )
This is why I got peeved.
A little story:-
I was driving me truck from Vancouver to Calgary this summer just gone. Now, it's 603 miles (ish) from Vancouver to Calgary, or around 12 hours in a truck, depending how brave/stupid you're feeling. From Vancouver to Kamloops, it's all divided highway/dual carriageway (call it what you will), so passing slower traffic is no problem. However, after you get a few miles East of Kamloops on TCH1, it's mostly (not all, mostly) 2 lane, i.e. 1 lane each way. There are however passing lanes every now and then to allow you to pass slower traffic (most of them are on uphill sections, which is a real pain if you're driving a truck, but there ya go). Anyway, I'm following said RV, who is driving around 70kph (most of it's a 90 or 100kph limit) so him and his family can get a better look at the mountains/trees/sparrows/whatever. Now, I understand this and I also understand that 90/100kph is the maximum speed limit and not the required speed. I'm not the kind of trucker who tries to bully people into going faster just because I'm bigger/heavier than they are (the truck, not me). So I keep my distance and wait for a passing lane. So, we get to a passing lane and I start to pass, only for the gentleman in the RV to accelerate in order to stop me. As you can imagine, I wasn't best pleased. Anyway, benefit of the doubt, maybe he didn't realise what he's done, so I wait for the next passing lane, only for him to do exactly the same thing. Now I'm P***ed!! The guy does this all the way to Golden, where he stops. Now, I'm not normally an aggressive person without extreme provocation, but on this occasion I feel the need to point out the error of his ways, so I stop behind him and get out for a friendly chat . I ask the gentleman why he felt the need to do what he'd been doing and he informed me that his reason for this was, and I quote "I didn't want you to get infront of me and spoil my view".
I decided this was a good time to leave as I could feel myself becoming decidedly tetchy.
I understand that the Rockies are pretty, but if you want to look at them and make the obligatory ooh and ahh noises, park the damn camper!!! Don't just slow down to 20mph so you can look at them for longer.
(none of this is aimed at you, by the way, Raquelle.
. Just a pet peeve of mine )This is why I got peeved.
A little story:-
I was driving me truck from Vancouver to Calgary this summer just gone. Now, it's 603 miles (ish) from Vancouver to Calgary, or around 12 hours in a truck, depending how brave/stupid you're feeling. From Vancouver to Kamloops, it's all divided highway/dual carriageway (call it what you will), so passing slower traffic is no problem. However, after you get a few miles East of Kamloops on TCH1, it's mostly (not all, mostly) 2 lane, i.e. 1 lane each way. There are however passing lanes every now and then to allow you to pass slower traffic (most of them are on uphill sections, which is a real pain if you're driving a truck, but there ya go). Anyway, I'm following said RV, who is driving around 70kph (most of it's a 90 or 100kph limit) so him and his family can get a better look at the mountains/trees/sparrows/whatever. Now, I understand this and I also understand that 90/100kph is the maximum speed limit and not the required speed. I'm not the kind of trucker who tries to bully people into going faster just because I'm bigger/heavier than they are (the truck, not me). So I keep my distance and wait for a passing lane. So, we get to a passing lane and I start to pass, only for the gentleman in the RV to accelerate in order to stop me. As you can imagine, I wasn't best pleased. Anyway, benefit of the doubt, maybe he didn't realise what he's done, so I wait for the next passing lane, only for him to do exactly the same thing. Now I'm P***ed!! The guy does this all the way to Golden, where he stops. Now, I'm not normally an aggressive person without extreme provocation, but on this occasion I feel the need to point out the error of his ways, so I stop behind him and get out for a friendly chat
. I ask the gentleman why he felt the need to do what he'd been doing and he informed me that his reason for this was, and I quote "I didn't want you to get infront of me and spoil my view".I decided this was a good time to leave as I could feel myself becoming decidedly tetchy.
Nov 11th 2007, 5:23 pm
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Re: How many states?
done before the boss gets home.
Nov 11th 2007, 5:28 pm
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And, just for the record, there's only one boss in this house and, I told her, if she doesn't like it, she can make the bloody beds herself