[Shotimes] Made across country, 3200 mi.

[Paul Nimz]

Sounds like a good experience.  BTW ...

>The second night,  we stayed in Joliet, IL, at a motel 6.

Probably one of the nicer spots in Joliet   ;)

Paul Nimz
'97 TR
'93 EG mtx




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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:05 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] Made across country, 3200 mi.


> Finally made it.  For all who didn't read my last message a month ago,
> I recently moved from boston, mass. To Hillsboro, OR.   We [the
> girlfriend and i] packed the car full of crap and drove across country
> in my 93 silverfrost atx with 175k on the clock.  
>  
> The first night we stayed in erie, PA. [driving west on 495, to 290w,
> then eventually hitting 90w] that's when I had gotten an intermittent CE
> light,  that would only come on if I was decelerating in cruise,  down a
> hill.  We stayed with my aunt and uncle's house which.  I had never been
> there before,  and they live right on the shore of erie.  which,  if
> you've never seen one of the great lakes,  its unbelievable,  you almost
> think your looking at the ocean.
>  
> The second night,  we stayed in Joliet, IL, at a motel 6.  Cheap digs,
> but nice.  no smells or stains in bad places or anything of that nature.
> Had a couple of guys party-ing a few rooms down from us,   but no biggy.
> [drove on 90w for a while till we picked up 80w]
>  
> The third night,  we stayed in Nebraska.  It was a LONG drive that day,
> but we wanted to get to Oregon.  and I was worried about the SHO,  as I
> had never ever driven the car further than 150 or so miles away from
> home before,  so the SHO was definatly not used to being driven this
> hard.  We drove through Ohio,  and Iowa.  sadly to say many butterflies
> lost theyre lives on the front facia that day,  at one point when I was
> filling up at a service station.  I commented on how it was an insect
> slaughterhouse on the front bumper,  it was really bad.  I had to pull
> the K&N out and remove the butterfly carcasses from it.  20 or so in all
> I believe.  It was horrible.
>  
> The fourth night,  we stayed in ogden, utah.   After a hard day of
> fighting Wyoming winds through foothills that I had no clue what the
> names were.  When I say fighting the wind,  I mean, FIGHTING the wind.
> It was so bad the car would open up the secondaries on an incline just
> to keep the car going 65 mph.  gas mileage was squat. We drove just
> enough that day to hit 84w,  then we hit the local motel 6.
>  
> On the 5th day,  we woke up ridiculously early and drove from utah to
> Oregon,  800 mile leg of the journey.  I swear,  I was never as glad to
> see mount hood until that day.   We continued on 84w through the
> Columbia river gourge the bulk of the day.  some of the neatest country
> going through there.  It was amazing,  finally we made it to Hillsboro,
> altogether the trip took 5 days to drive 3158 miles.  no problems with
> the SHO except for the CE light which hasn't appeared since the trip.  
>  
> Just figured id keep y'all posted =P
>  
> ~ Jeff
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