Road Trip from Florida

Paul R. Luevano paul at clarity.net
Mon Dec 3 19:27:34 EST 2001


I just made the trip myself.  Orlando to Boston.  Left Orlando at 12:09pm
yesterday, pulled into my driveway at 6:08am this morning.  17h, 59m door to
door.  1300 miles, I leave the ave mph as an exercise for the reader. :)

Only issue was on the way down, the trip computer selector went on the blink.
The top selector switch is stuck "in".  I can't get it to release, so I can't
change what selection the trip computer is set to.  It always reads Ave mph
now.  Any thoughts on a fix?  Do I need to get a whole new combo switch?  Or is
it possible to take the end of the switch apart?  If I can just "unstick" the
top switch, i can just use the lower switch.

Other than than, trip was uneventful.  Sorry i didn't hook up with you Taka, I
thought I was going out Sat night, but ended up just staying in, shoul dhave
left with you.  :)


> At 12:48 AM 12/01/2001 -0500, Doyt W. Echelberger wrote:
>
> >Hello Taka......We were almost killed about 3 times along that speedway, by
> >stuff falling off of (and out of) open-bed pickups. Most traffic was doing
> >80-85, and lots of it was independent contractors in pickups, moving
> >between jobs in adjacent cities.
> >
> >Had to whip off the pavement and onto the berm at 80 mph, to avoid a flying
> >power mower that came unchained from a flatbed trailer behind a pickup. The
> >guy probably never noticed that it was gone. And those things roll and
> >bounce and wiggle along in random jumps, at the same speed as the car,
> >until they fly apart or get hit. Scary.
> >
> >Don't follow pickups, and watch out for flying lawn mowers!
>
> Just survived a N. MI-to-FL roundtrip and experienced the same sort of
> circumstance while "cruising" at 75 with the traffic through Atlanta.  Red,
> fortunately plastic, fuel can comes flying into the five- or six-lane
> traffic from some fool's pickup bed.  It made it across three lanes and
> then came back to bounce off  our passenger door.  Nice scratch and dents.

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