Tuesday, June 15, 2010

(Son) Road Kill *Part III*

Buddy:

Buddy thought that the truck and trailer could be cautiously driven to Oregon as it was, but Goose disagreed. The guy at Penske told us we had grossly overloaded the truck, and we had no alternative but to make a change. Assessed all options, and rented an additional smaller truck. Offloaded excess weight from truck, and had new tires installed on the car trailer and the front of truck. Goose made the right decision about not continuing on with the overloaded truck.

Goose:

Lifted the door on the back of the truck to survey any possible damage. All was still exactly where it was placed originally. Buddy stands back, scratches chin, and says, “That’s 10 lbs. of crap stuffed into a 5 lb. bag”. Goose is both proud and horrified at the same time. When all the numbers were crunched it was going to cost almost $3,000 more on top of the $2,000 we had already spent on our 16 footer to rent the next largest size. Sadly, we had to rent another truck to save money. Goose thought it meant the end of male bonding and the end of sanity since we would each have to drive twice as much.

Buddy:

Going against advice from Penske guy, left Boston during late rush hour traffic, enroot to Syracuse NY. Arrive Syracuse about 1:30 a.m., Tuesday morning. Park truck and trailer at WalMart, a couple of miles from Goose's friend's apartment.

Goose:

Woke up friend to get into apt. and left before friend woke.

Buddy: Up early to ensure truck and trailer are OK. Breakfast at Denny's. Purchase water, ice, padlock, and walkie-talkies. Head for Canton, OH late morning. GPS seems to take us on circuitous "goat trail" route to Canton. Arrive late evening. Nice hotel with workout room. Exercised, took showers, and went in search of Pro Football Hall of Fame (HOF). Dinner at Italian fast food restaurant near motel (all you can eat breadsticks for $ .25).Return to motel to plan next day's trip to HOF and travel. Agree we can't possibly stay with original plan to make it to Des Moine, IA the next day. Determine that we'll leave the HOF by noon, and attempt to get west of Chicago before we stop Wed night.

Goose:

Today was better than yesterday. Had expectations to see HOF with a short trip today but was frustrated by GPS for second time. Went down farm roads that made little sense. Looked at map and found shortest distance isn’t always shortest time.

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