The Moabs West Coast Drive

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Moab Man

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Day 1 (Yesterday): MLady went to pick up our road trip econo rental car. Turns out all the $14 econo cars had been rented out so they have us a free upgrade - 400 HP Dodge Challenger muscle car. This is truly significant because I previously had a 1970 Challenger and sadly had to sell it when I was sent to Germany. Couldn't afford the gallons to the mile :) The wife driving back with the car falls in love with it.

When she arrives home, being a bad father, I taught my daughter how to do a good tire smoking burn out. Yeah, I'm a bad father.

Once we had the car loaded up with our camera gear we were off and the wife was loving the car.

Pictures and more to come as internet gets invented out here. Al Gore?

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Moab Man

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Once the evening hours arrived it was time to swap drivers. Moab Lady pretty much always sleeps on road trips. Upon her butt arriving in the front passenger seat we learned the seat does not recline very much. Eventually my wife proved to herself that she can sleep sitting vertically. Proving my love, I never tapped the brakes as her perfectly balanced sleeping position would have put her face straight into the dash. Thus I proved my love.

Eventually I had to wake my wife so she could start hunting us down a hotel for the night. She quickly found one, the Rodeway Inn. They had one room left so my wife told her to hold it and said we are driving and will arrive in about 40 min.

More to come.
 
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Krs_2007

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I dont know about that Mike, I have some stories that dont involve me or my wife that are pretty interesting from Motels like that.....
 
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mikew_RIP

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Krs_2007 said:
I dont know about that Mike, I have some stories that dont involve me or my wife that are pretty interesting from Motels like that.....
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On one of my previous forums we had an adult section pass word protected, where we could tell such stories,being Mod on it was one of the worst jobs i have ever done on a forum.
 
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Moab Man

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Arriving at the hotel for our night stay, somewhere around midnight, the night attendant my wife had spoke to came out to greet us and tell us she gave our room away. She was also kind enough to tell us all the other hotels were closed for the night and we might find a room 120 miles further down the road. You can probably imagine the joy we had knowing the sleep we had anticipated just got yanked out from under us.

With a little use of the Challengers muscle, and no one on the road but us, we covered the distance in what we will just call a bit of a time warp.

We now had a room for the night and laid there... staring at the ceiling... forever. Yup, we had crossed that line of tired where you can no longer sleep but can't stay awake.

Somewhere in the wet hours of an Oregon night we FINALLY drifted off to sleep.
 
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Moab Man

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Morning arrives and I awake to the sound of wet. Yes wet has a sound and it explains the official motto of Oregon, ”We get our sunshine out of a can.”

But we'll deviate from the story and back to a conversation we had on the road. As I mentioned earlier, I had a Challenger in my younger teenage days. I shared how close this trip was to those days. My muscle car, my girl by my side, and some great rock cruising music. I said all we need now is to go ”parking” and it would all be like one of many nights from long ago. We had a huge laugh at the idea of us two at our age and let's say flexibility. As of this morning, we now know 100 percent that not all days of yesterday are meant to be relived.

Returning to the sound of wet, I rolled out of bed and said, ”Time to get up.” MLady responded with, ”Remember our conversation about the back seat and teenage years. It will never happen, my back is killing me from trying to sleep in that car.”

So now we're back on the road right now. My wife is munching on Motrin like a box of Good-n-Plenty candy and I'm staring out the window at all this liquid air wondering if the next gas stop will have any of those cans of sunshine for sale.

That's the thing about a road trip like this. When we're young and pliable we can't afford a trip like this. When we're older and can afford it we find out the loves of our younger days were not very comfortable but we didn't notice at that time.

Now you're are all caught up. More to come as it happens. Oops, wife just missed a waterfall shot and yelling she hates me :) because we didn't see it soon enough to pull off. Should I point out to her it's not my fault we didn't pull off - she's the driver. Probably safer to stay quiet.
 
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Moab Man

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New Oregon state motto: We create unneeded jobs.

Gas prices are quite high so we can pay someone to pump gas on and in the car.

Now I'm sitting at McDonalds waiting for someone to hold my sandwich so I can eat it. Why stop at just creating unnecessary jobs at the gas pump.

Hope someone comes along soon my food is getting cold.
 
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sonicbuffalo_RIP

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alright Kowalski.....you have 24 hours to get there.....remember Vanishing Point? Great movie in a Challenger. I used to have a 73 Challenger with a 340 4 speed pistol grip shifter.....loved it. Have fun Mr. and Ms. Moab!
 
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Moab Man

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We're here on the coast of Oregon. Supposed to be a big kite festival. As for now the only thing flying, kind of, are the seagulls. Crossing fingers for it to dry up.
 
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Moab Man

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In between showers the wife and I ran out for some pictures. There is a kite festival trying to get started. I found these to boys playing with their kite. Kind of seems age is irrelevant with boys and toys.

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Hoping that all these clouds might part and give me some kind of sunset to shoot.
 
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