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Title: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: golden eagle on June 27, 2010, 11:10:36 PM
I'll be heading to Birmingham, AL. If my time-off request is approved, I'll leave Friday afternoon and return Tuesday afternoon.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: US71 on June 27, 2010, 11:30:13 PM
For now, I'll probably stay home. MAYBE cruise to Texarkana and do some preliminary work for the road meet.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: BigMattFromTexas on June 27, 2010, 11:55:18 PM
I'm just gonna stay home, grill with my dad, and light fireworks. Here in San Angelo I think the worst traffic is on the 4th, the city does fireworks at Lake Nasworthy (Nasty water), then at Goodfellow AFB they do a fireworks show, then they have them at the Colts Stadium (Foster Field). So there's a lot of shows here. I'll prolly just go out to the dam and see them... Oh yeah and on the 3rd there's the POPs concert...
BigMatt
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: agentsteel53 on June 27, 2010, 11:59:50 PM
blitz trip to sunny Union County.  1050 miles each way, and I intend to make each leg in about 18 hours.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: mightyace on June 28, 2010, 01:01:14 AM
Travel down to Daytona for the Coke Zero (one time Firecracker) 400 plus a visit to Cape Canaveral.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: kj3400 on June 28, 2010, 01:10:16 AM
Probably just head downtown (Baltimore) after a nice cookout at home and watch the fireworks. If I'm home by then....
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: corco on June 28, 2010, 01:35:47 AM
I'm whoring myself out to my old work at a hotel with marina, who is going to be shorthanded and I'll be in town so they've asked me if I'll help out with tying up rich people's boats and things like that, so I'm poised to make a few hundred bucks in tax-free tips off of the 4th (hopefully enough to fully pay for a northeast Wyoming/North Dakota/South Dakota/eastern Montana trip I want to take over Labor Day to finally finish the Wyoming highway system in its entirety and visit North Dakota for the first time)
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: cu2010 on June 28, 2010, 03:42:29 AM
I plan to travel from my desk chair to the kitchen, with a possible side trip to the TV. All in all, probably about a hundred feet. :D

(Yeah, the 4th is quite lame when you are unemployed. :D)
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Mr_Northside on June 28, 2010, 11:24:46 AM
The one band I'm in has a gig in Ohiopyle (PA) on Saturday (The 3rd)... so nothing TOO far away from home.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: njroadhorse on June 28, 2010, 11:29:08 AM
2 and a half weeks in Europe!  Usually I'm in Cape May, NJ for the 4th, but we're going in August instead.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Duke87 on June 28, 2010, 12:35:47 PM
Party's at our house. So I'm going nowhere.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: okroads on June 28, 2010, 01:35:00 PM
I'm planning on taking a trip to New Mexico and clinch the last part of I-25 I have left (between Springer & Raton) and get some counties in northwest New Mexico.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: agentsteel53 on June 28, 2010, 01:38:43 PM
if you take 64/87 you are very likely to pass by me!
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Roadgeek Adam on June 28, 2010, 02:40:29 PM
Unknown. Its so goddam hot, I'd like to go photograph near cool air
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: agentsteel53 on June 28, 2010, 02:58:52 PM
Quote from: Roadgeek_Adam on June 28, 2010, 02:40:29 PM
Unknown. Its so goddam hot, I'd like to go photograph near cool air

I hear South Africa is nice this time of year!  :-D
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: algorerhythms on June 28, 2010, 06:37:20 PM
The fourth of July falls on a day that ends in 'y' this year, so I'll be at work.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Roadgeek Adam on June 28, 2010, 06:46:55 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 28, 2010, 02:58:52 PM
Quote from: Roadgeek_Adam on June 28, 2010, 02:40:29 PM
Unknown. Its so goddam hot, I'd like to go photograph near cool air

I hear South Africa is nice this time of year!  :-D
I despise the World Cup. And I refuse to leave North America ;)

My thinking is maybe Asbury Park and such
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Scott5114 on June 28, 2010, 10:13:56 PM
I'm going to the casino. But I do that every day. :P
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: SSOWorld on June 28, 2010, 10:22:39 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 28, 2010, 10:13:56 PM
I'm going to the casino. But I do that every day. :P
They do have remedies for that problem :P :happy:
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: iwishiwascanadian on June 28, 2010, 10:57:19 PM
I'll be travelling to Northern Virginia on 5 July and will visit Richmond, Washington and Baltimore until 9 July as a College Road Trip.  Hopefully, I'll be able to avoid all of the post 4 July traffic.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Scott5114 on June 28, 2010, 11:36:50 PM
Quote from: Master son on June 28, 2010, 10:22:39 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 28, 2010, 10:13:56 PM
I'm going to the casino. But I do that every day. :P
They do have remedies for that problem :P :happy:

Hey, it's okay, I always make money! I work there! :P
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: kj3400 on June 28, 2010, 11:49:15 PM
Quote from: iwishiwascanadian on June 28, 2010, 10:57:19 PM
I'll be travelling to Northern Virginia on 5 July and will visit Richmond, Washington and Baltimore until 9 July as a College Road Trip.  Hopefully, I'll be able to avoid all of the post 4 July traffic.

Don't count on it. If I know I-95 as well as I like to think I do...... :happy:
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: okroads on June 29, 2010, 12:40:06 AM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on June 28, 2010, 01:38:43 PM
if you take 64/87 you are very likely to pass by me!

I took 64/87 on Memorial Day, thus, I won't be taking it on this trip. I'll be on 64 from 285 to Raton, though.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: agentsteel53 on June 29, 2010, 12:59:43 AM
then you've been to sunny Union County more recently than I have!
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Bryant5493 on June 29, 2010, 08:44:58 AM
I'll be in Biloxi.


Be well,

Bryant
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: SSOWorld on June 29, 2010, 08:46:07 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 28, 2010, 11:36:50 PM
Quote from: Master son on June 28, 2010, 10:22:39 PM
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 28, 2010, 10:13:56 PM
I'm going to the casino. But I do that every day. :P
They do have remedies for that problem :P :happy:

Hey, it's okay, I always make money! I work there! :P
I bet you're still getting robbed - only Execs make a living at casinos 8)

quote fail fixed
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: triplemultiplex on June 30, 2010, 04:52:24 PM
Another journey into the Great North Woods to hang out with family.  I've got all day Friday to allow myself to wander up there.  I'll probably pick up some more mileage on a few state highways, maybe wet a line in a stream or two in central Wisconsin.  Fishing on the 4th weekend is usually not as fun on the lakes with all the idiots zipping around on jet skis and water skiers and the like. How dare they disturb my fun with their fun! :rolleyes:
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: golden eagle on June 30, 2010, 10:35:09 PM
Quote from: Bryant5493 on June 29, 2010, 08:44:58 AM
I'll be in Biloxi.


Be well,

Bryant

Hopefully, the oil won't spoil your visit. I may go down there next weekend to check it out myself, especially if the waves from Hurricane Alex pushes it further north. May be the last time I see the beach unspoiled.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: hm insulators on July 01, 2010, 07:48:20 PM
Nowhere, unless you count an afternoon drive to Sun City West tomorrow to visit my mother.

I never go anywhere on a Fourth of July weekend. :banghead:
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Ian on July 02, 2010, 06:17:55 PM
I'm headed up to Maine tomorrow, in the small town of Phippsburg (south of Bath) where we stay at a harbor resort. While I am up there, I plan to tour the MaineDOT sign shop in Augusta.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: SSOWorld on July 04, 2010, 02:44:29 AM
nowhere due to one of the tires being the spare.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: US71 on July 04, 2010, 09:19:36 AM
The rain killed my plans :(
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Truvelo on July 04, 2010, 11:56:13 AM
Fourth of July means nothing over here. It's just a normal Sunday to us.

Oh, it's nice and sunny here US71 :cool:
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: english si on July 04, 2010, 12:32:07 PM
Quote from: Truvelo on July 04, 2010, 11:56:13 AM
Fourth of July means nothing over here. It's just a normal Sunday to us.
Good riddance day? ;)

Then again, as Britain was drifting away from things like the Bill of Rights 1668, the Magna Carta, the values of the Civil War and Restoration like limited government and limited monarchy, it's good riddance day on the west side of the Atlantic. What basically happened is that the path Britain was taking in the 17th Century continued in America (without a monarch, but with a President) and the Britain elsewhere heading on a different tragectory - good job there was an Industrial Revolution to distract everyone (and twist us onto a different course to tyranny), or we'd have ended up like France, having bloody political revolution followed by a bloody dictatorship over and over again for 100 years!
QuoteOh, it's nice and sunny here US71 :cool:
Hopefully it will rain soon - it's been rather a while since the last time and it's muggy at the moment.
Title: Re: 4th of July travel plans
Post by: Bryant5493 on July 05, 2010, 08:15:40 AM
Quote from: golden eagle on June 30, 2010, 10:35:09 PM
Quote from: Bryant5493 on June 29, 2010, 08:44:58 AM
I'll be in Biloxi.


Be well,

Bryant

Hopefully, the oil won't spoil your visit. I may go down there next weekend to check it out myself, especially if the waves from Hurricane Alex pushes it further north. May be the last time I see the beach unspoiled.

The oil wasn't too bad. Got in the water, and got some beach video.


Be well,

Bryant