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Mexican Food! [Jun. 21st, 2001|06:24 pm]
Brad Fitzpatrick
Blythe came over and we made our road trip plans. Tenatively, the schedule is as follows: 

S 24th: Seattle, WA    -> Butte, MT  (10:00)
M 25th:                -> Rapid City, SD (10:56)
T 26th: (mt. rushmore) -> Le Mars, IA  (8:40)
W 27th: Iowa (tue night, wed day/night, thu afternoon)
H 28th:                -> Davenport, IA (7:04)
F 29th:                -> Trenton, OH (8:26)

Trenton -> Seattle:  43 hours, 46 mins
Now we're off to get an oil change, get a GPS & Map software, and go to Azteca for dinner.
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[User Picture]From: robobrien
2001-06-21 06:27 pm (UTC)

Wow!

Trenton is about ten minutes from my place, man.

...

What could possibly be of interest to you there, by the way?

;-)
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[User Picture]From: bradfitz
2001-06-21 06:28 pm (UTC)

Re: Wow!

I'm staying in Middletown, actually.

That's the plan, anyway.

We're coming for no good damn reason. :) Visiting whitaker, nolegs, jesus, jgambrell, etc... and you! Come to our ho-down redneck party Saturday night. Yee haw.
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[User Picture]From: robobrien
2001-06-21 06:33 pm (UTC)

Re: Wow!

Holy sheepshit. I'm probably having a party at my place Friday night. I'll email you my number, if you'd like to swing by and say hi. My neighbor's "jcope," but I think she's working Friday, so...bleh.

That's cool shit.

I'll have my friend take you for a ride in his Viper. =)
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[User Picture]From: nolegs
2001-06-21 10:02 pm (UTC)

Re: Wow!

from middletown? smallish town question: what school you go to?
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[User Picture]From: robobrien
2001-06-21 10:36 pm (UTC)

Re: Wow!

I went to Middletown High, and I start classes at MUM this Tuesday.

Are you in Middletucky too?
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[User Picture]From: whitaker
2001-06-21 10:55 pm (UTC)

Re: Wow!

jcope was in my Calc class last semester.
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[User Picture]From: robobrien
2001-06-21 10:57 pm (UTC)

Re: Wow!

Sweet Jesus, this town is horrible - Everyone I meet turns out to be someone I got wasted with at "x" person's party or something...

It's like Six Degrees of Middletucky...
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[User Picture]From: whitaker
2001-06-21 11:21 pm (UTC)

Re: Wow!

Hehehe, looking at your lj friends, I know... 4 of them. Crazy.
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[User Picture]From: d4b
2001-06-22 10:28 am (UTC)

Re: Wow!

Trenton, Ohio... The second Ground Zero of LiveJournal! (Would that make it Ground One?)
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[User Picture]From: righellis
2001-06-21 06:35 pm (UTC)

better towns

you should hit some better towns than that, take a some what souther route and his denver, and so on...
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From: sheehan
2001-06-21 07:31 pm (UTC)

Re: better towns

souther is right... day 2 sounds like a sleeping pill...

--scott
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[User Picture]From: nighthawk
2001-06-21 06:47 pm (UTC)
Hey Brad, I found the radio transmitter. When do you want it? :)
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[User Picture]From: bradfitz
2001-06-21 08:26 pm (UTC)
Sometime before Saturday ... what works for you?
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[User Picture]From: whitaker
2001-06-21 10:57 pm (UTC)
Radio Transmitter?
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[User Picture]From: nighthawk
2001-06-21 11:35 pm (UTC)
Simple little device that plugs into a headphone jack and transmits the audio into a FM channel between 88 and 92.
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[User Picture]From: mart
2001-06-22 03:46 am (UTC)

That's a pretty damn cool idea.

(Better than pulling the speaker wires out of the radio and attaching headphone jacks, anyway :)

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[User Picture]From: whitaker
2001-06-22 05:16 am (UTC)
Oh, one of those. I thought maybe you meant something cooler... but alas, just an FM modulator thinger.
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[User Picture]From: starblazr
2001-06-21 09:37 pm (UTC)

.. if you dont travel much.

i'll give you some pointers whilst on your trip, if you have any sightseeing time planned.

1) Rapid City has a waterpark, IIRC, i was actually on the campus of South Dakota School of Mines... way back in windows 3.11 days.

Check out Wall Drug if you're in the area, they have a lot of cool (read: bizzare) items that you wouldn't expect to see out in the middle of nowhere *cough* BFE *cough*... :)

and remember, brake on the top of the hills, dont wait till you're going 23498239847238942738mph then decide to hit the brakes... but it sounds like you knew that already cuz u live on a hill :).

and IIRC again, there is a 7-11 in rapids city..
it's all about the slurpee's, yeah!@#.
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From: ex_ff928
2001-06-21 11:09 pm (UTC)
Which GPS did you get? I've been toying with the idea of getting one myself...
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[User Picture]From: bradfitz
2001-06-21 11:19 pm (UTC)
Couldn't actually find one. I should go to REI.

I should do some more research first. Linux support would be nice.
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[User Picture]From: solace
2001-06-22 05:50 am (UTC)

MT

you should drive the extra hour and change to Bozeman, Butte is terrible :)

either that, or stay in Missoula, it's about 2 hours before Butte

anywho, enjoy your trip, you'll be pretty close to where i grew up when you go through MT to Rapid City, not sure which way you'll go, through Hardin on 90?

colstrip is where i went to school, pretty tiny ass town :)
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