driving x-country

[adam morley]

Hmm.  This is making me ache for a set of michelin pilot sport a/s's:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/Compare2.jsp?partNumber=&make=&model=&price=&width=&ratio=&diameter=&sortCode=&speedRating=&qty=&stockMessage=&type=T&AddToUser=true&qty_245ZR78P_=4&qty_245YR7SPORTAS_=4&qty_245R7WS_=4&qty_245WR7HTRZ2_=4&qty_245WR7HTRPL_=4&qty_245WR7HTRZ_=4&qty_245WR77000_=4&qty_245WR77000S_=4&qty_245WR770001_=4&_245YR7S03PP_qty=4&_245ZR7RE730_qty=4&removeIndex=2&_245WR7HTRZ2_qty=4&_245YR7SPORTAS_qty=4&_245R7WS_qty=4


effectively, a comparison of the s03pp, re730, pilot sport a/s, wintersport m2.

>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:54:26 -0500
>From: Jenny Curtis <jenny at physics.umn.edu>
>To: qlist <quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: driving x-country
>
>Hi Adam:
>
>Driving cross-country mid-may,  go with your snows, especially if your
>summer tire are those (like mine) that come with dire warnings about not
>being snow worthy .  I have hit serious snow as late as June in Montana
>and Idaho driving in the mountains.  Never underestimate altitude as a
>factor in very quickly changing weather.  You can go from a lovely sunny
>60 degrees on the plains to an ugly snowstorm in a mountain pass with
>white out conditions in less than an hour.  The Colorado S-car people
>may take their snows off in May but you are not going to Colorado, you
>are going to be a lot further North.   I'm originally from North Dakota
>so I have a lot of experience in driving from there to Seattle.  If you
>take Highway 2 across you will have a wonderfully scenic trip, except
>for the 8 hours of North Dakota and five hours of Eastern Montana, ,
>where as my Dad says, even the Coyotes pack a lunch.   For that kind of
>tedium, let me suggest three little words: books on tape!  But Western
>Montana, Glacier Park, Idaho and western Washington and the Cascades
>kind of make up for the pain.
>
>Graham and I might be doing the very same trip for our honeymoon this
>summer.  Good luck and have fun,
>
>Jenny
>from Minnesota where we had 91 degrees last Monday and 4 inches of snow
>yesterday and who wishes she hadn't taken her snow tires off yet!

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adam