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RE: [RC] my husband and his big rig - Mike LewisMy rant re: the semi aside... something like a medium-duty "semi" might not be bad. There's a lady who drives a Freightliner FL70, if I recall correctly, all over the country. Small enough to get under most limbs... powerful enough to pull a big LQ trailer. That with a reasonably sized trailer would be the ticket. I'd just be concerned about my nice big Peterbilt with all the add-ons taking a beating on narrow dirt roads with low branches across them. :-) No reason hurting a perfectly nice looking rig!! Mike --- Jannelle Wilde & Adam Falk <mfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hey Jen, your hubbie is on to something. One of the vets in the NW (Gene Nance) drives a big rig and pulls a pretty darn large LQ trailer. My hubbie thought it was a great idea and mentioned it to me and I accused him of being Tim the Toolman. Last summer, I decided to drive to a ride (Pacific Crest in southern Oregon) the way the directions said NOT to go. At almost the top of the 17 miles climb, I overheated and had to pull over. So while, I cooled my heels, I figured I'd have to have a talk with Gene about his big rig. (Earlier in the summer, I had drove to Illinois and hated all the wasted time plugging up mountains and fighting the ever-present head wind in Kansas-both ways:)) Gene gave me a tour and told me all the good reasons why we should get one, too. So last fall, we started shopping and found one just like Gene's, with bunk beds, etc. It's bigger than my in-laws camper! I don't' have huge issues with tents except that I lost two tent poles and my pop-up canopy shade at the first ride of last year in the wind, snow, sleet, etc, etc, etc. But mostly, I wanted the towing power. Towing way under it's rating, we get about the same gas mileage as we would if we were driving the pickup and we can a camper and can tow anything, anywhere! JannelleMy husband drives a big rig when he isn't busy farming. It has areallynice sleeper and holds around 450 gallons of fuel, so he thinks it would be perfect for driving to endurance rides. I prefer our pick-up andtents,but he says the big rig would be much easier....=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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