Re: NASTE Nats Caravan (Part 2)
That's great, Morgan...thanks for doing this.
Question...I assume we're meeting up "somewhere" in Pennsylvania...like Pittsburgh? I assume the southeast pa crowd is not going UP to State College, rather taking 76 west where we will meet up with others before turning south?
There will be multiple meeting points along the way. We'll probably just play it by ear or meet up en route and just keep in contact with the other groups via phone (someone slows down, the other speeds up) kinda deal. Vinnie will probably meet up with the "Philly Group" somewhere around Carlisle, PA on I-76 where I-81 crosses. Then that group will meet up with the "Renz Posse" around Bedford, PA where I-76 & I-99/220 merge. We will continue down 220 and meet up with the "Maryland Guys" arouns Cumberland, WV when we go from 220 onto I-68. Last but not least, we will finally pick up the "Pittsburgh Peeps" around Uffington, WV at the junction of I-68 & I-79, then we all roll down I-79 together
+1 for liking to get there a little earlier. I was definitely planning on leaving before 8:45, more like 6-6:30 departure. If you roll all of the times back 2 hours that gets us there closer to 5pm which would be cool, we could all havea dinner down there.
Yeah I know what you mean, but I could only go off of what people put down in their information above, some people put specific times, others just put "morning", so I just tried to make it as close to what the specific times where so I had something solid to base everything off of. Vinnie had put 5am and Renz had put around 10-ish, but with only a 4 hour difference between them, Renz was getting his ass rolling earlier than that, and might even be earlier as it already seems from the replies. But if you wanna leave at 6am vs 9am, that also means Vinnie & myself will need to leave around 2am in order to have a chance of meeting up, so its a pretty difficult act to balance, not to mention guys trailering arent going to be as fast as those who arent, so shaving time off isnt going to be so easy. It's going to be tough, especially with 16 different people meeting up, thats why I wanted to get this posted so everyone can see the might need to be a little more flexible on their departure time.
These are the reasons why Wednesday night is so appealing to me, because there is less traffic, which means for smoother travelling, we would technically have more time to rest and easier time meeting up because groups can just stop at whatever rest area after their intersection point and whoever gets their first just waits till the other group arrives. Basically travelling through the night gives us a much looser time table and we dont need to "cannonball run" down there during the day on Thursday.
Morgan - looks great thanks for putting that together but just to let you know my family and i are leaving around 4am. This way the kids will give me a few hours with out saying "ARE WE THERE YET" HAHAHAH
Also going to take my time becasue first time towing a car/truck and i want to make sure i get my family there in one piece. How is everyone going to communicate??? I will have my laptop with wireless card but not going to keep it up all the way. Are we going to post cell numbers??
Yeah I hear ya on that, bring some ear plugs it might help :lol: Just out of curiosity, would leaving Wed evening be completely out of the question since you have the little ones? Just kinda going off what I said above, the night travelling will probably make things a lot easier on you as well.
As far as communication, I know we have used walkie-talkies in the past, not everyone has them and they arent always the easiest to understand the other person on, but they work. Alternatively, I will also make up a cell phone list that everyone can print out, but I would suggest that everyone PM's me their phone number instead of posting it publicly :2cents:
