I'm home!

I drove 480 miles yesterday and another 880 miles today with no help. Fuck that drive! My ass hurts. The important part is we made it home from Florida safely! Bad part is, I got home and all I want to do is take a shower but a water main broke down the street and we have no water

 

Hello,

great to have you back. And be positive, better the water pipe broke down the street than in you basement .

Regards
Gyro

 

Glad to hear you got home safely!

 

No no, you don't want a shower. You want to post at the Hipfora. :2thumbsup:

 

I'd love to do that. But only on a motorcycle or in a VW van. Road trips in any other vehicle = shitty time for the driver.

Did you at least have audiobooks?

 

Gald to have you home!

 

Thank you everyone.

That is actually the truth, haha. I was going through withdrawal. Ok, I wasn't. One of the first things I did when I got home was come here too see what I had missed though.

Soooo true. The water came back in shortly after I got home so I was able to shower.

We were in a Toyota Venza. The temperate stayed below 20 for the last 15 hours of the drive. A motorcycle would have sucked. I didn't have audiotapes. There were 4 of us in the car so there was conversion. I was the only one that drove though. My friend actually broke down and cried all the way through St Louis. I think she was over stressed from the crazy week and her husband almost dying. It was all finally hitting her then we got to STL at rush hour and the roads weren't great because of snow. She lost her shit a little bit for a while. Her husband said to me "thank you for coming and saving us. She would have driven us off a bridge" haha

 

Glad you got away from Florida! :cheers2:

 

Haha except for the warm weather, I am too. There are some crazy things that happen in that state.

 

That is a long drive! I am glad you are all back safe and sound!

 

I waved at you on my way through KY. Did you see me? haha. I think we took I-24 all the way through. We were on so many different interstates I think that's the one we were on in KY. We never did see a "Welcome to Kentucky" sign so we just had to assume we were in the state.

Thank you! It's good to be home. I'm having a lazy day today. I'm still in my pajamas and its going on 2 pm.

 

glad you got back numb bum

 

welcome home

 

Thank you... I totally had numb bum.

 

that is some serious miles..gotta be careful driving like that, blood clots can and do happen..

 

I was thinking of this, too. Usually it is a bigger risk for women over 35, obese people, smokers, pregnant women or those on hormonal birth control. Make sure to flex those leg muscles! Up to 2 weeks after the trip.

 

What if you stop and get out of the car every 2 hours for let's say 5 minutes?

 

That would be ideal but she is already home :2thumbsup:

 

For next time :cheers2:

 

exactly...I had a friend who drove cross country non stop and got a DVT that he has had for 20 years...some blood clots dont ever go away and cause permanent vein damage..

But good on you Ruby, I am sure you took the necessary breaks..

these days on long drives, I download about 100 geocaches into my GPSr and usually stop every 20-50 miles to hop out and find the cache..makes the drive go fast and helps eliminate the chance of clots..