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Entries Tagged as 'Rants, Raves and the Zen Art of Road Trip Management'

First Blood

July 14th, 2007 · No Comments

With all the work and mods being done in preparation for the Arctic adventure, it was only a matter of time before I or the rig drew first blood. The first round goes to the rig and me ending up with some very manly stitches.
It began innocently enough. I was removing some of […]

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Pre-function… or road trip to the road trip

June 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The great thing about road trips is they never really begin or end. And though on the last great road trip team I am the son, in life I play a father for two great kids and today I drove down to Portland, Or. with my boy. We made the trip to see […]

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North of schizophrenic and just south of dysfunctional

June 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A longtime ago I asked my lovely wife to marry me and to my surprise she said yes. And to my bigger surprise her family, all ten brothers and sisters, came along as a package deal. Over the years my wife’s family and I have reached a de taunt of sorts not […]

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You know you’re ready for a road trip when…

May 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

If you have ever gone a few years without a real vacation you know that with the passage of time the madness of work starts to all make sense and the insanity becomes your sense of normal. And I’m not talking about a vacation where you take the time off to put in a […]

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Skid marks on an Arctic gravel road

May 28th, 2007 · No Comments

The road is full of twists and turns. Drivers who claim to be it’s master are often ill prepared to solve the complex problems facing them at the road’s edge. In an attempt to help weed out the road warrior from the drivers-Ed dropouts, the last great road trip is providing a quick […]

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