Head West not so young Man

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   / Head West not so young Man
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#142  
thanks Aaron!
 
   / Head West not so young Man
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#144  
car museums. Truck museums. newer than 1950, not into old stuff.
No sinkholes...
anything really neat mechanically...world's largest motor? Not here, I know...
shipbuilding along the Gulf?

And I really HAVE to go see a tractor pull, never done it before. Combine racing?
I'm a motorhead, just not a Nascar guy...
 
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I input all the locations on Google Maps, then could not for the life of me get to the directions screen. Data only. I wanted to do this all on Google but will instead use my laptop running Streets & trips plus a gps sensor. that of course is nice but the only one that counts the day of the drive is the RV gps, which is programmed for not taking me under low underpasses and truly ruining the trip. I also have a similar one in my suburban, so I will be running two independent gps, just like I am very used to doing in boats. and I guess I am destined to double and triple entry, but then that's what makes backups work...
I'll go almost anywhere, but hate getting lost...

So, I was about to do a shift print screen which amazingly I have now mastered...:)ashamed:) on my MS product and you are saying it won't work?
 
   / Head West not so young Man #149  
So, I was about to do a shift print screen which amazingly I have now mastered...:)ashamed:) on my MS product and you are saying it won't work?
It will work fine. ronjhall was talking about documents (word or excel files) where in Open Office or newer versions of MS Office you can save directly into a PDF.

Aaron Z
 
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well this sort of works, as I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the extraneous non map info. but this works.
took me a bit of fiddling to force the line down the Natchez Trace, and I've put in the "head further West into Texas" advice to good
use and updated Texas. Most of the stops are rv parks, where I will venture out from there. though I won't mind catch of the day or a Walmart parking
lot if something is interesting half way between spots shown.

I'm figuring two to three days for each stop. some more, some less. I'm in no hurry to get home, though I say that now...
In some ways, part of this trip is to see the North Carolina area a little better, hope to buy a farm there next year or the year after.
So part of my travels is to test my assumptions on what should be home, since I know I'm moving anyway. real estate is just too expensive in my area.
Maybe I will see Sedona and never want to leave. Unlikely, I still want to be within reasonable driving distance of family back East.

At this point, I'm happily macromanaged up until Dallas. The micro stuff I'll do the week before, gives me something to do and study.
I hope to keep this thread updated every few days, and if I can figure out how to do it, download some high res Go Pro images shot through the rv's big front windshield. More likely will post to YouTube, which I have never done before. Will cross that bridge when I get to it. Unedited video is useless, need to find the good parts.
Of course if I see something amazing...and trust me it won't be video of the rv getting sucked up the the tornado. I approach each day like I did offshore boating. There are some days to stay home. Also got a NOAA alert radio to leave on when I'm headed through the heartland.
 

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