On Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 12:51:39 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 08:50:47 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

On 1/2/2020 10:58 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:08:06 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

On 1/1/2020 1:32 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Wednesday, January 1, 2020 at 2:16:48 PM UTC-5, Leon wrote:
So.... my wife and I just got back from our "oblgation" trip, 12 days on
the road.

Day 1 From the Houston area we stopped in West Memphis AR.

Day 2 On to Terra Haute IN.

Day 3 On to Elkhart IN and stayed 3 nights. Visited the RV museum,
train museum and my wife's brother and his family.

Day 6 On to North Canton, OH. Stayed 3 nights and visited out daughter
in-law's parents and brothers/ sisters, and nephew.

AND We visited Hartville Hardware again. WOW this place is like 3 HD,
Lowes and or Menards put together. The tool section beats any tool
store that I have ever been in. They stock a pretty much complete line
of Shaper Orion, Saw Stop, King, Festool, Jet, Rikon, Powermatic,
Makita, Milwaukee, DeWalt, and probably a load of other brands of hand
tools. To top it all of they have the longest extension ladder I have
ever seen, 60 feet long and hanging from the ceiling all extended.
Absolutely worth a look if you are in the Akron area.

Day 9 On to Paduka KY.

Day 10 On to Bentonville AR.

Day 11 On to Piedmont OK. More relatives.

Day 13 On to H O M E yeah!!!!!

That concluded our 3477 mile trip.

BTY we need Menards down here in Houston, Hartville Hardware is probably
too much to hope for. :-)

Happy New Year!!!!!

12 days, 3500 miles and more words about a hardware store than the rest of
the entire trip. No doubt about where *your* interests lie. ;-)

Glad you had fun. Happy New Year!



LOL, I feel it was an obligation trip. ;~) But the new F150 was a
dream.....

My older ('13) F150 runs like a dream too but we took SWMBO's '19
Mustang to Vermont in October. Good thing because I had a seizure
while we were there (day before we were supposed to leave) and she had
to drive the entire trip home. I can't drive until mid-April,
assuming nothing else happens. :-( :-(


Well that sucks. ;~( So the dream part was the massaging seats,
adaptive cruise control, and relatively good gas mileage.
Hope your episode was a one time event.

Yeah, it sucks big time but I'll get through it, as long as it is a
one-time event.

The Mustang gets surprisingly low gas mileage (under 30) but it is a
heavy car for its size. Nice car, though.

I have a friend that had a Mustang. Mid-teens I think, convertible. She was
heading to Florida and was using a left lane entrance onto the highway. As
she entered (top-down) she pulled alongside one of those flatbed trailers
hauling a huge backhoe. There was a car in front of her, a car in back and
no real shoulder to speak of. Suddenly the trailer started swaying and Bam!
Bam! Bam! it hit her 3 times before she could speed up enough to get past
it. She still doesn't know how she kept it on the road.

She eventually got to a place where there was enough shoulder to pull onto.
Turns out that there was a trooper behind the truck that saw the whole
thing. She watched as the trooper pulled the truck over about a 1/4 mile
ahead. The driver claimed that he had no idea that he had hit anything.

The damage was extensive and she managed to talk the adjuster into totaling
the vehicle. She said that the event had shaken her up so much that she'd
never be able to drive the car again, especially with the top down. Seeing
that huge backhoe looming over her head and swinging towards her scared the
bejesus out of her. She never wanted to see the Mustang again.