Roadtrip from NYC to San Fran *UPDATED WITH NEW PICS in the first post*
 

UPDATE:
I posted the pics at the bottom of this reply....

Here's the story:
I am going on a road trip this Friday 7/23 leaving from NYC at approximately 8pm and hopefully arriving in St. Louis ~14 hours later. After St. Louis I am not exactly sure where we're going next. By "we're" I mean an ex-girlfriend of mine. We're just friends now.

Here's a brief list of places I'd like to visit in the two weeks, 7/23-8/6, I planned for this road trip(in no particular order):
1. The St. Louis Arch
2. Vegas
3. Golden Gate Bridge
4. Grand Canyon
5. Hoover Dam
6. Lake Mead(sp?)
7. Petrified Forest
8. Swim in the Pacific Ocean
9. Yellowstone

I have done this trip before when I was 15 with the family. We lived out of a ---- ass chevy celebrity station wagon for three weeks with a front bench seat. Keep in mind my dad is 6' and I was about 6' in the back seat. Needless to say I was biting my knees in the back seat for three weeks.

What other attractions/places should I hit up on this trip?

FYI...Although I think it could make it to Cali with bells on, I won't be taking the turbo CRX. :P Instead I will be taking my 2000 altima SE, 5psd, with 50k, bone stock. It's just there's one problem with it. I have been getting a bad vibration from the front end, including the steering wheel, from 75mph up till 100mph. I have all tires balanced twice, put on two brand new tires on the front end, all rims have been checked and are NOT bent, I checked all the front end bushings, tie rod ends, joints etc and all looked kosher.
Anyone have an idea of what else could be causing the vibration?

TIA

UPDATE:
Well I only took 418 pics :P on the Canon Elph SD110 digicam I bought with a 512 card a week before we left. I must say teh camera is pretty damn good. I wanted something small and this offered the most for the price. Most of the picst are of ----, but here are some of them. The girl i went with took about 12 rolls of film also, but it has not been developed yet. I'll try to give a brief description of the photos. AND NO I DID NOT DO anything with her....NO nookie, NADA, NOTHING... I have my eyes set on other things. Oh and BTW, she's crazy.

Well we left on Friday July 23rd(?) at 9 pm and our first destination was St.Louis. I drove for a while and I think I had her take over at around 4am. She drove for a few hours while I rested and then at around 9 am I got back behind the wheel. At around 1pm on sat we came up on St.Louis. We hung out here for a bit, the line to the top of the arch was about 903487250852904 feet long so we said ---- it and left.
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatestlouisarch.JPG

We left St.Louis, and trekked on to Oklahoma City where we slept the night. We woke up the next morning and headed up in Santa Fe NM. We camped at an awesome campground outisde Santa Fe called Ranchero:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/ta...afecamping.JPG

Next morning we woke up and headed off to 4 corners. This place is out in the middle of no where.
For all of you who have never been there, it's nothign special and here's what you'll see:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tate4corners.JPG

We left there and moved on. I think we camped in Tuba City, AR next? Sorry if anyone lives there, but this place is a ---- hole. The campground we stayed at was part of a hotel. This was the worst campground i've ever been at. Our site was covered in dog ---- and all throughout the night i kept on hearing drops on the roof of the tent. I just thought it was berries faling from the tree or something. Well apparently ever bird within a 9087390847123 miles radius had diarrehea and decided to hang out on the tree on top of our tent. Our tent's roof was no longer blue, instead it is now white and purple.
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/ta...itycamping.JPG

Woke up next morning and headed off. Next stop was the grand canyon or to some of you "a big hole in the ground".
The Vanna White pose:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tategrandcanyon.JPG
Another shot:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tategrandcanyon1.JPG

Next on the agenda was the Hoover Dam. It was freaking hot here:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatehooverdam.JPG

Now we're off to Vegas. Ahhh....i love vegas. We went out to eat then played some slots where I won $55 on the nickel slots :P
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatevegas.JPG
We walked around the strip a bit then she was getting tired so she headed up to the room at 1am. I decided it was way too early to sleep, also considering I love to party i headed back downstairs and apparently at the Riveria they were hosting some soft darts tournament. I met some people from Everett Washington and next thing I know i was playing darts with them. The one guy's name was Jack Comyn, and he owned a bar called "Sporty's" on 6503 Evergreen Way in Everett. There was some chick who invited me back to her room at Ceasar's who was also from Everett, but all of her friends tagged along which I thought was weird. Next thing I know they tell me she's married. :-X

Anyway I had some drinks(completely wasted) and next thing I know it's 8am and i can't find my freaking room. I finally made it to bed and gotten woken up at 11am by the cleaning maids. Needless to say I was still drunk and could not drive:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatewastedvegas.JPG

Francesca drove my car through the desert where i made it for a while before i decided it was a good idea to 'toss my cookies' so she pulled over and i let the demons out:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatepukie.JPG

Next was Yosemite. Here is one of my favorite pics:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tateyosemite.JPG

Now off to San Fran and a gander at the cable car museum:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/ta...ancablecar.JPG

One thing I wanted to do was to go in the Pacific Ocean and here you go(I can die a happy man):
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatepacificocean.JPG

From San Fran we headed off to Yellowstone. Along the way I remembered I had an aunt somewhere in Idaho. I called her up and did lunch with her in Idaho Falls...she paid ;D
Then there's Yellowstone. Just freaking awesome;
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/ta...wstonelake.JPG

Big ass elk just chillin':
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tateelk.JPG

We hit up Chi-town on the way back and saw the Sears Tower. Here is a pic from afar:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatechi-town.JPG

I hit a little traffic goign to St.Louis, leaving San Fran and of course when I am coming home to NY i hit traffic at 2am on a Monday night on the Cross Island. Shitty pic but you get the idea:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/ta...andtraffic.JPG

All in all, it was great. We did about 7500 miles in 10 days, took a ---- load of pics. Next time I do this trip, and yes there will be a next time I will be staying certain places for longer periods of time like yellowstone and vegas. Another thing, I will either bring a "girlfriend" or a guy friend BUT not a girl who is a friend.

The car held up like a champ. The whole trip i don't think i did under 85 mph. I got pulled over one time in Oklahoma and got a written warning for having my fog lights when it was only overcast, YET two minutes earlier I went through a hail storm, Whatever...

My advice is to do this trip if you can I think i drove all but about 10 hours the entire trip. :P But I am the type of person who enjoys driving as do many others here.

Well that's it, i've already gotten back to the daily grind of my 8-430 job and I am so swamped I am not going to be able to catch up till late next week. I got a promotion too bitches!


here are two more pics of her:

http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatefranclose.JPG

http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatefranback.JPG

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haha, as the official hmt road tripper all I have to say is good luck with that. that's probably more miles than my last 2 trips combined. make sure you have plenty to drink, a cooler would be great, I just drank hot water the whole time. eat sun flower seeds, they keep you awake, your tongue will hurt when you're done, but you won't fall asleep and fly off the road. get the chick to give you some road head if you run out of sun flower seeds.

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damn bro.....i wouldn't put the miles on that car but thats just me good luck banging out your ex all over the US

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I just got back from a 3000 mile road trip, and I'll tell ya one thing, there is no place like home =) I dont see how people can even live in Arizona/Nevada.

Good luck on your trip, and use NoDoze if need be, I took one about 4 hours ago and I'm wide awake.

Jeff

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make sure to stop off in aspen

http://www.andy-hawley.pwp.blueyonde...the%20snow.jpg

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NYC to St. Louis in 14 hrs! I dont think that would be very easy. If you are going on a sight-seeing trip, I would take your time. Dont really rush anything. it isnt worth it if you were to get into a wreck. (do I sound like your mom) take lots of pictures, and post them on HMT. have fun!
get lots of road head! I wanna see pictures of your EX!

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no niagra falls on the way??? YOU SUCK!!!

JJ have a cool trip... post pics when you get back

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If you do go to Niagra, I'll be up there as well :P

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what no socali love? :P

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check ball joints and tie rod end? (once more) unbolt them and check.

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I may be heading to San Diego and then up the coast. I honestly have no idea. It'll be a last minute decision if we have time. I need some place to change my oil in Cali....any takers? :P


They rebalanced the tires again and it is better now. It still vibrates a little. I'm going to recheck the joints again tomorrow. All I did last time to check them was to move the assembly around to see if there was any play by looking at the joints. When i moved them they didn't look bad.


Niagra Falls may be a little out of my way...it's only like 8 hours out of my way! :-\
I say this all the time, but next year i'll head up there for the next N? crx meet. I just need a new shell and some TLC for the car.

I just bought a Canon ELPH SD110 digicam and a 512mb card so i'll have a shitload of pics. I'm also bringing a video camera too. When I get home I'll rip some movies. And no, i am not nearly as good at editing as LEED. :-\

I'll post a pic or two of the ex i am going with. I only have my server set up now and i really don't have any pics on here. When I get my personal PC back from work with all the pics I'll post some up.

oh BTW...I never had a cup of coffee in my life. We'll see how long I can go without caffeine or sleep.
Another thing I have never done was to fly in an airplane. The closest I've been to a plane was in the hangar bar waiting for my friend to arrive at JFK.

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wow, you're gangsta, no coffee and no airplanes. I think the next thing for me to do would be to drink coffee while on an airplane, I'll try it, I fly this friday.

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what you mean if you have time, you do have time :P

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Well, here's one and it's bad. She is the one on the left and rail thin (5'6" 110lbs).
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/TA...0%20Nicole.jpg
This morning she calls me up and says, "I have a 102 fever, headache, etc.". Just my luck, but she's doing better this afternoon so we're still on for our trip tomorrow.
Here's another when we went snowboarding/skiing:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/fransmall.JPG

Here's one of my last ex. For all of those that think i am a pedophile, I'm not...she's the one on the right and that's not mine nor her kid:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/TA...eychristie.JPG

BTW...more news on my altima's vibration. I got all my tires re-balanced and the vibration went away. :)

OK, now you can start ripping on me for the pics... :-\

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http://www.newbieforces.com/files/TA...eychristie.JPG

I vote for this one. Either one their both cute :)


I say you shoulda left the vibration in the altima, you passenger might enjoy the ride more ;)

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does she give good road head? she looks like a swallower.
J/K. she isnt "your girl" so we can talk like this about her right?

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LOL...I said the same thing, but I got no response from her.

The blonde NEVER went down...the dark haired one did in the past.

If you wanna see 'cute' you should see this other girl i was hanging with. She's 5'2" 95lbs, greek. I have pics so i can post them up if you want.

---- i feel like kain. I actually have pics with me and them to prove that I am not a dwarf

I hope they don't mind :P

I just realized. I haven't packed my bags or even thought about my cleaning my car out. Thank god I only sleep a few hours a night cause I'll be up late.

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the only blonde I see is the one year old :o

Well since the dark haired one did you are gonna have some trip eh ;)


Are you seriously asking this question. Hurry up and put em up :P

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post the picture.

I never thought I would have to say that....

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Sorry for the shitty quality, had to scan it in.
I look like a tard but here ya go:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/TATEandZOE.JPG

How old do you think she is?
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatezoebed2.JPG

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so thats the chic you are doing the road trip with?

how old is she, I would say 18-20??

she looks like a screamer! I bet she deapthroats....LOL.

your a lucky guy. I would ride that one out as long as I could.

Im assumming you both like each other but dont wanna admit it? --you are going on a huge road-trip together, and probably have more sex in the short amount of time you are on the road trip than you will ever in your life.

have alot of fun!! good luck, we want updates when you get back.

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I'm going on the road trip with this one(Francesca):
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/TA...0%20Nicole.jpg

And believe it or not this one is 27years old:
http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatezoebed2.JPG

I just talked to my Francesca (my navigator) and she has been in bed all day and does not want to go on the trip. This is from a girl who never gets sick. Just my luck. I already took 2 weeks off from work. She better get unsick quickly.

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yippy i took a break from hw and you posted up the pics. She don't look too shabby at all ;D You shoulda took her on your roadtrip :P

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im assumming that they left this morning?? no response...


hes probably getting road head as im writing this. awsome.

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still nothing...he must have left.

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We'll be waiting on updates. ;)

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Updated with pics in the first post i did...enjoy my bitches..

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Sweet ---- dude, hope you had lots of fun.. 10 days doing 7500 miles is a ---- load.. nice pics too! ;D

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im jellous i want to do that so bad.

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Right on man, looks like you had a good trip. I know exactly where that bar is ;)

Jeff

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i was always curious of what the 4 corners looked like, i always thought it would be a little more interesting :-\
you took some nice pics, i love just beatufil places like that. im gonna have to do a trip like that in the future

good stuff 8)

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wow i'll make sure i never waste my time at the four corners, I'll just print it out and step on it, probably be just as enjoyable, if even that.

But it looks like you had a badass trip. I'm thinking about doing a trip to virgina, cause my cousin is gonna move out there, and I wanna see my niece and nephews >:(. But I dunno, only time will tell. :)

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me and my wife always said we wanted to do this trip. but from indiana, to cali, up to washington, and back home.

we want to do it in a H2. I think that would be a good time.
(perverts) :D

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awsome pics dude ! :o

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damn fool, you're like my hero, I wish I could drive as much as you. you need to post up some better pics of the girl, that one shitty campsite pic from afar isn't going to cut it here on hmt (horny man's tv)

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here are two more pics of her:

http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatefranclose.JPG

http://www.newbieforces.com/files/tatefranback.JPG

better? :P

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I really don't like reading posts, but the pics are always good. So what your saying is that you went on a road trip with one of those girls and didn't do the "BOOGALOO"?

I think that would have been the hardest part. Deal with a girl for that long knowing there's no chance your gonna "de-moralize" her. :-\

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dam. that long of a road trip with nothing. what would've she done if you met another chic while on the trip?