Well, long one. Yesterday I picked up the trusty steed with his new front shoes and bumper, and hole in my wallet and this morning hitched up the trailer and rode the Deer-Kill Highway again. This time time there were only three suicide bunnies out trying to die, all of them incompetently failing to do so -or perhaps their hearts just weren't in it.
I did the iron-butt thing, hauling the ex-Finn Puteaux 25mm a/t gun down to Austin, Texas, where it will be further transhipped to Australia. That's a gun with some long legs - from France, to Finland, to the US, and now on to Australia, after a 20 or so year soujourn in the US as yard-art.
I'm bringing back stuff with which to plague you in future Whatzis posts. Which means tomorrow, another 12 hours in the cab coming home. Heh. I'm not that chauvinistic about Kansas, but when I hit the border with Oklahoma, the road turned to crap, either beat to hell or under construction almost all the rest of the way. And Austin at night, navigating via GPS with a buncha Boston-wannabe drivers while towing a trailer was... stressful. Good thing BCR Labs hasn't perfected the Cell-User Brain Frier yet... there would be several fewer drivers on Austin's roads.
The sad news is - the Castle is now cannonless at the flagpoles. The good news is - the indirect fire capacity is approaching a full battery.
I'm going to bed. It was a long day, and tomorrow will be little better.
I did the iron-butt thing, hauling the ex-Finn Puteaux 25mm a/t gun down to Austin, Texas, where it will be further transhipped to Australia. That's a gun with some long legs - from France, to Finland, to the US, and now on to Australia, after a 20 or so year soujourn in the US as yard-art.
I'm bringing back stuff with which to plague you in future Whatzis posts. Which means tomorrow, another 12 hours in the cab coming home. Heh. I'm not that chauvinistic about Kansas, but when I hit the border with Oklahoma, the road turned to crap, either beat to hell or under construction almost all the rest of the way. And Austin at night, navigating via GPS with a buncha Boston-wannabe drivers while towing a trailer was... stressful. Good thing BCR Labs hasn't perfected the Cell-User Brain Frier yet... there would be several fewer drivers on Austin's roads.
The sad news is - the Castle is now cannonless at the flagpoles. The good news is - the indirect fire capacity is approaching a full battery.
I'm going to bed. It was a long day, and tomorrow will be little better.
No dawdling here. I'm on the road in 5 minutes.
Drive safe. That ought to be a two day trip, but if WX holds the 725 miles +/- can be done out west where speed limits are generous. Especially if the trailer was a one way rental.
So, about once a month, John would drive home, or I would drive down there.
Nice to see other opinions of Boston driving that coincide with mine. (all except Maggie of course)(OK...I'm a coward)
Plural.
The inbound Customs paperwork on the receiving end, that's a different story. They guy down in Australia is a well-known and experienced collector/dealer and knows how to do things.