luvbight ([info]luvbight) wrote,
@ 2008-06-06 00:57:00
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Current location:Jackson, TN
Current mood: drained
Current music:Jimmy Buffet
Entry tags:animals, ball python, tennessee, trip report

Traveling circus...
We're in a Super 8 in Jackson, TN with two cars, one room, two beds, two parents, one 17.975 year old daughter, one labrador retriever, two cats and a ball python. Tomorrow we arrive in Texas!

Miles clocked today: 705

--Mick


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[info]metamistress
2008-06-06 09:46 am UTC (link)
Welcome Home.

-G

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[info]luvbight
2008-06-07 04:50 am UTC (link)
Thanks! It's good to FINALLY be here...

Next clock: 80 days and counting until we're empty-nesters!

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[info]roxifox
2008-06-06 12:29 pm UTC (link)
Congrats on the major on-the-road progress! Hope the rest of the journey is smooth for ALL of you!

:-) Roxi

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[info]luvbight
2008-06-07 04:51 am UTC (link)
Thanks...it was smooth.

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[info]ralinad
2008-06-06 03:34 pm UTC (link)
Oof. Good luck with the rest of the trip.

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[info]truckerspike
2008-06-06 11:23 pm UTC (link)
705? You should be taking your DOT required 10 anyway driver!

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[info]luvbight
2008-06-07 04:35 am UTC (link)
It took 11 hours of driving and 2 hours of on-duty time to drive the 705 miles, then we stopped for 10 hours of sleep at the Super 8...so I was within the HOS rules. Since we were driving cars we could use the 65/70 mph speed limits all the way.

Today we drove 735 miles, again in 10.5 hours of driving and 2 hours on-duty.

The same trip in a truck takes three days, because you need 24 instead of 22 hours, and that means two 10 hour off-duty periods.

At least we're all here...what a menagerie.

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