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I did get to straightening. I also got dishes to soak. A start on laundry is next. I really should have started that earlier but you know how that goes. Oh, and I did make supper. Nothing fancy but it works.
What do I have left? I never know. I might crash in an hour, be up another eight to ten hours but so thin I can't think, or even get a bit to lot more done. I simply don't know. If you live my life you best get used to surprises, good and bad.
Oh, I best figure out, exactly, what day D.C. will be "home". Further, actually, what day he will be available. If he arrives home on Thursday but late, I doubt if he will want company. I know I wouldn't, probably. And, despite his notions, I do intend to drive straight through. Driving, pretty much, is easy. Well, and I am pushing things as is. Now, on the way to BMan, I can see getting a room. Whatever. I though he suggested that it will be a 26 hour drive. With a night off that is two days of driving for six and a half hours, plus time for gas stops, each. Not tight at all, if vehicle fatigue will exist. If we can get in Sunday evening, and we want to be there pretty much when the gate opens, and stop a night, that would mean leaving Friday, which doesn't seem possible, unless we left Friday evening? All the particulars are not in my hands since I don't know his address, so can't more than figure anything from raw numbers.
Yeah... Later.
Google maps says sixteen hours from Tucson to BRC. That would be two days, Saturday and Sunday, leaving Saturday AM and arriving Sunday at gate opening time.
ReplyDeleteThat would leave Friday to rearrange and pack anything you're bringing into the trailer, if you arrive Friday AM.
Based on my experience getting to Jacob Lake just recently, the Google maps times are optimistic and don't really account for other than Indy 500 style pit stops.
ReplyDeleteThinking out loud here (sorry for the clutter), if Sunday is beginning to run late, I'd like to consider crashing in a motel rather than spending all night in line at the gate. I cannot imagine trying to set up camp at 3:00 AM in the dark after having been on the road since early morning... We can play it by ear.
ReplyDeleteOh, right. I knew google maps would be skewed as if pit stops didn't exist, most map guides do that. I am fast with them but still.
ReplyDeleteOkay, so the plan is for me to be there by Friday a.m., I can do that. I just need to know the address so I can plan a route. Yeah, a hotel might be a good idea. Perhaps drive 10-11-12 hours so I just have a bit of a drive so that adjusting loads and filling water jugs isn't as much of a hassle. Hmm, MapQuest says the trip from here to there, without addresses, will take 15 hours. Yum!
Yeah, it'll all be played by ear. Of course, might be better to plan and arrange a stop now rather than try to do it closer to time. My guess is anything within 500 miles of the place may well be booked for a day or two before and after opening day if you wait too long. And prices might get jacked, if they aren't already.
A quick check says there is a Days Inn for $43, about an hour and a half from Tuscon. That would work. It also means I could drive during the day, though that doesn't make much difference to me.
The route there from Tucson (vicinity) takes us through Las Vegas and onward via US Hwy 95. That's a fairly hinterboonie route and there may not be a lot of traffic to BRC via that highway except that coming from AZ.
ReplyDeleteStopping as far north as Fernley may run us into No Vacancy, but I wonder if Fallon, NV might be big enough for a couple roadside motels for a quick crash.
Fallon to BRC is 3.5 hours. If we stopped early, grabbed 6 hrs of sleep, then headed out to hit the gates in the wee hours of the morning, it might be a shoo-in, and we get to set up camp in the early morning light.
Perhaps optimistic, but it might work.
I'm just thinking this way because with the RV, camp is pre-pitched. We stop. We sleep. We wake up and set up the rest of camp. Not so easy the way we're going, particularly that behemoth carport that needs assembly...
If you didn't get my email yet (?) use San Manuel, AZ as your destination. I am about 25 minutes out of there and will get you more detailed instructions.
I love the idea but the cost for a night's stay at least doubles and a half and goes on to quadrupling, from what I could find. I could do it but I won't. The one place I couldn't find a price for... well, probably a good thing. When I gave up trying to find a homepage or such, just as I was about to click out, I noticed something... it has an interesting address - 666 W 8th Ave. :p
ReplyDeleteOh, the other thing? You suggested a 13 hour drive would be tight. Even at Eloy I would be driving more than that, according to Mapquest (they must now be adding reasonable time for variables and gas/bladder stops). I would have to guess San Manual would be at least another hour on the road. That is beginning to push things a bit.
Oh no, I was not suggesting you come as far as San Manuel in one day! I just meant, use that for the destination when plotting routes to my place. Stopping in Eloy seems perfectly reasonable. There is only one motel of sorts in San Manuel anyway, and the ones in Eloy are going to be cheaper because they cater to truckers.
ReplyDeleteMapquest apparently has more reasonable time estimates than Google Maps.
Backing up a step, you must just have woken. Some time during your sleep cycle I did send you my actual street address.
ReplyDeleteYes, just woke. Further, for whatever reason, my smart phone is no longer letting me know when I have email. Google changed the format for email without updating how their own phone receives the data, I think. Idiot engineering, advancing without thinking. Gotta love liberals when they do it to themselves, it's when they involve me that I get perturbed.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise I would have reviewed this and known. I might see if I can get my printer going. At least the trip there, essentially, to Eloy, is three roads so rather easy. My phone will do it if I am not sure if there will be travel charges for data, or how much that would be... Should talk to them. However, getting into the meat sauce to your exact location is probably going to be trickier, a bit anyway.