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daugen
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Stafford Virginia, right off Rt 95
you are very, very welcome. I don't like taking pics the way I do using my small camera held up in the air. But at least some come out. Nice drive today, heading East and North. Lots of changes of roads, the lady in the gps was barking orders at me constantly. Yes Ma'am! I will not print however what I often say when I want her quiet...
there is an older Prevost motorhome in this place I have to walk over and get a pic of. Now that is a rolling castle. Looks like about 25% of it is covered in chrome. Not that I have to see...
My last night aboard. Will post some thoughts on that later.
This rv campground is the closest to D.C. Wonder if any of these big motorhomes are rolling NSA data gatherers... I'm using my allegedly "secure" Verizon mifi and it has worked remarkably well.
But secure? not in this town...
On this drive I pretty much drove the road and not the speedometer, having enough seat time to know within 5mph how fast I'm going. So I got into a nice 62-64mph run behind a semi and then another motorhome, which slowed down so I went slowly past. Still too many tall hills to run on cruise all the time, plus I got to speeding up a bit down the hills, like Ron said, and keeping it floored in fourth gear which usually kept me above 60mph until I got to the top of the rise and could ease off the pedal. If it downshifted to third, then it revs way over 4000 rpm and that's just silly, so I back off and force the upshift and then try to keep it full throttle in that gear without pushing too hard, which of course then creates a downshift which I didn't want. If this vehicle had a diesel engine, most of these motor issues goes away, they can pretty much keep their speed up hills, but they'll be downshifting too and most folks don't want to rev their engines that much. Just get into the torque peak zone of one higher gear and try to hold it. Boy I would have liked steering wheel shift paddles today, and the ability to hold it in a gear of choice. However I'm sure the computer in the unit is smarter than I am, but often it shifts, mostly to go faster, when I'm happy slowing down a bit. These roads are too hilly and too curvy to try to maintain the speed limit like in a car. Most but not all trucks did not speed.
yes, forgot to put the laptop away. did so at a rest stop shortly after.
in VA, you just go by one picturesque farm after another with those black cattle out there. Very pretty.
you are very, very welcome. I don't like taking pics the way I do using my small camera held up in the air. But at least some come out. Nice drive today, heading East and North. Lots of changes of roads, the lady in the gps was barking orders at me constantly. Yes Ma'am! I will not print however what I often say when I want her quiet...
there is an older Prevost motorhome in this place I have to walk over and get a pic of. Now that is a rolling castle. Looks like about 25% of it is covered in chrome. Not that I have to see...
My last night aboard. Will post some thoughts on that later.
This rv campground is the closest to D.C. Wonder if any of these big motorhomes are rolling NSA data gatherers... I'm using my allegedly "secure" Verizon mifi and it has worked remarkably well.
But secure? not in this town...
On this drive I pretty much drove the road and not the speedometer, having enough seat time to know within 5mph how fast I'm going. So I got into a nice 62-64mph run behind a semi and then another motorhome, which slowed down so I went slowly past. Still too many tall hills to run on cruise all the time, plus I got to speeding up a bit down the hills, like Ron said, and keeping it floored in fourth gear which usually kept me above 60mph until I got to the top of the rise and could ease off the pedal. If it downshifted to third, then it revs way over 4000 rpm and that's just silly, so I back off and force the upshift and then try to keep it full throttle in that gear without pushing too hard, which of course then creates a downshift which I didn't want. If this vehicle had a diesel engine, most of these motor issues goes away, they can pretty much keep their speed up hills, but they'll be downshifting too and most folks don't want to rev their engines that much. Just get into the torque peak zone of one higher gear and try to hold it. Boy I would have liked steering wheel shift paddles today, and the ability to hold it in a gear of choice. However I'm sure the computer in the unit is smarter than I am, but often it shifts, mostly to go faster, when I'm happy slowing down a bit. These roads are too hilly and too curvy to try to maintain the speed limit like in a car. Most but not all trucks did not speed.
yes, forgot to put the laptop away. did so at a rest stop shortly after.
in VA, you just go by one picturesque farm after another with those black cattle out there. Very pretty.
