earliest available flight gets me there at 11am tomorrow

Looks like I'm driving to Raleigh tonight!

5/9/2008 7:22:23 PM

I'll go if you want somebody along - when are you coming back? heh

5/9/2008 7:24:04 PM

Ahhh, coming back on Sunday, probably noonish.

5/9/2008 7:24:30 PM

that was a lot of fucking driving for a 48 hr time period

5/12/2008 12:04:05 AM

Wow that sucks. Think you'll get your money back for the ticket?

5/12/2008 12:22:39 AM

Yeah I will. Flight was $360. Rental car + gasoline + tolls = about $370, lol.

5/12/2008 11:00:56 AM

airlines need to get their shit together

5/12/2008 11:16:15 AM

that sucks

i almost got stuck in raleigh yesterday trying to get home after app's graduation yesterday morning

at least i didnt have to drive it!

5/12/2008 11:17:04 AM

Drive Friday: 11:30pm - 7:00am - No traffic, easy as shit drive

Drive Sunday: 1:30pm - 11:30pm - Nightmare return drive. Too many fuckers on the road, and lots and LOTS of rain.

5/12/2008 12:57:36 PM

I hope my flights next week don't get cencelled. I'm going from Greensboro to Montana.

[Edited on May 12, 2008 at 1:00 PM. Reason : ]

5/12/2008 1:00:04 PM

i'm sorry i missed you this weekend - karen said you were gonna be in town, but i was moving in to my new place all weekend

5/12/2008 1:08:21 PM

i only hung out with him for like 20 minutes... he had some serious talent on his arm though

5/12/2008 1:11:43 PM

Did the Springfield Construction fuck up your return up there? I ended up getting off I-95 in Virginia at exit 160 and taking back roads to Northern Va.

The drive back was rough. I had to pull over and puke...in front of the National Holocaust Museum!

5/12/2008 1:30:00 PM

^^^Yeah I was really busy, I told Karen I'd see her but I didn't I was pretty busy with my bro since I was there for his graduation.

^^Hey I was at Napper Tandy's longer than that, I actually came twice, with EV and farmhouse in between.

^I'm not really sure, I started hitting bad traffic around exit 84, I got off and took Hwy-301 for a while (like 90 miles)

5/12/2008 1:42:00 PM

yeah i heard a bunch of you were there sat. night

glad i got an invite

5/12/2008 2:03:46 PM

Danny you're always invited!

Hey to make it up to you why don't you come up here for my birthday party. It'll be a good time.

5/14/2008 3:37:31 PM

i don't blame you, Pat

and if i could, i would

p.s. i heard you're moving back here??

5/14/2008 3:39:19 PM

tis true.

5/14/2008 3:44:28 PM

fuck your brother.

5/14/2008 3:46:30 PM

Whew...been there done that in terms of driving.

In Nov., me and another guy went to Miami to cover the State/Miami football game.

Left on Friday morning, came back on Sunday morning.

Talk about a lot of driving.

5/14/2008 4:45:01 PM

Quote :

"Hey to make it up to you why don't you come up here for my birthday party. It'll be a good time."

when's that? justin and i are planning our NYC trip in the next few days...maybe it could coordinate

5/14/2008 4:53:24 PM

^well my birthday is the 23rd of next month, but I'm having a party for it on the 7th b/c I'm having surgery on the 11th and won't be able to go out for a while.

5/14/2008 11:28:09 PM

aww you dont have a car?? yay.

go green.

5/14/2008 11:30:55 PM

Quote :

"In Nov., me and another guy went to Miami to cover the State/Miami football game."

I went to the Tangerine Bowl my junior year (i think) and drove down the night before the game... got really drunk that night after arriving. Went to the game the next day, drank some more beforehand, then drove (I was sober) all the way back right after the game... and it was during the week where I worked like 60-70 hours at Honeybaked Ham b/c it was Xmas.. ugh... I think I threw up in the bathroom at work but I can't remember..

^ ha... I'm sure that isn't the reason... My office admin tries to get everyone to "go green" and even puts public transportation ads in the office... it actually annoys me.. I'm supposed to feel bad b/c I like to drive to work? I think not..

[Edited on May 14, 2008 at 11:35 PM. Reason : antonio bryant dickslapped the entire NC State team that game..]

5/14/2008 11:33:02 PM

i once did 1300 miles in one sitting stopping for gas and fast food only. orlando, fl to boston, ma. 20 hours or so. slept about 2 hours in a rest area and finished the final 300 miles to bar harbor, me. i've done several other 800-1000 mile trips in one day as well.

hell, just for you pat i've done raleigh-south orange-raleigh in one day when some of my family was moving down here. in a u-haul truck.

on multi day "recreational" road trips, i try to do 500-600 miles if there's things to stop and see/do. 800 or so if it's just driving. people hate riding with me, but they get to see more and get places faster than they would otherwise so it evens out.

[Edited on May 15, 2008 at 2:29 AM. Reason : .]

5/15/2008 2:22:25 AM

Quote :

"aww you dont have a car?? yay. go green."

This is NYC you'd think thats the case. Unfortunately my company relocated to an area of Eastern Queens 3 miles from the nearest subway line. So I do drive to work, but believe me I wish I didn't. (I've tried the subway + bus combo, but takes 1 1/2 hrs to go 8 miles FUCK that).

So boo on my company.

IMPRESSIVE Ivan!

5/15/2008 8:46:07 AM

Quote :

"i once did 1300 miles in one sitting stopping for gas and fast food only. orlando, fl to boston, ma. 20 hours or so. slept about 2 hours in a rest area and finished the final 300 miles to bar harbor, me. i've done several other 800-1000 mile trips in one day as well. "

i did 24 hours straight, just to one up ya

charlotte to Massachusetts and back straight.. stopped at the 12 hour mark and slept for about an hour and a half then hauled ass. i was riding with somebody on the way up there but i drove the whole way, bought a car up there and drove all the way back

i was fucked for like a week after that

5/15/2008 9:13:24 AM

There's some crazy shit going on in this thread.

5/15/2008 9:20:12 AM

95 SOUTH! WOO WOO.

Ahh, driving to and fro Connecticut. The asphalt warms my hart....

...but driving on the fsking Turnpike cools it.

5/15/2008 12:45:23 PM

How long is it going to take me to get to Staten Island tomorrow?

5/15/2008 1:04:09 PM

what time of day are you driving?

No traffic and your driving style I say 7 hours.

5/15/2008 2:31:15 PM

Took 6 hours on the way there and 4.5 on the way back. But I left from D.C. not Raleigh.

5/19/2008 10:41:54 AM

Sounds like you hit some nasty traffic, b/c those times suck

5/19/2008 10:48:56 AM

Friday was a mess with all the rain and accidents. 10 mile delay on the Turnpike. Saturday I had to stop like 4 times to piss or get coffee.

[Edited on May 19, 2008 at 10:52 AM. Reason : jfdgfd]

5/19/2008 10:51:50 AM