Troutmobile on the table

Ryno · Post by **Ryno** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:32 am

Sweet ride Chitwn!....You have enough buses to have a Chitwn campout!

deschutestrout · Post by **deschutestrout** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:26 pm

Todd, how's she runnin'? How far did you get tonight?

Hippie · Post by **Hippie** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:33 pm

Oh, hey Todd, I lost track of the date for your journey...it's been on already and I just found out. Do stop by if you can on the way back or if you need a crash-over.

Rob

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:18 pm

deschutestrout wrote:Todd, how's she runnin'? How far did you get tonight?

She? Troutmobile is a she?...But of course...

So far she's a dream. Slightly sticky accelerator cable, but that's not a big deal. Cruises in the flats at 75+ no sweat. Good pulls up the hills. She's going to need some lovin', but that's ok, I'll nurse her back.

I'm in Mobridge, South Dakota, a town I had never heard of. Been taking US 12, a nice drive, off the interstate for the most part. I don't think a bus loses much time on 12, I've been doing 60-75 the whole way.

Knock on wood, I should be back in Chi town tomorrow.

Thanks for all the help everyone!

PS: Rob, I think I am going north of you. Need to be back at work on Thursday otherwise I would swing south a bit. Probably be warmer. I have heat, but you'd laugh at how I am dressed while I am driving the Troutmobile.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:34 pm

Mobridge, I've been there. A combo of Missouri River BRIDGE. It was a Milwaukee Road town, and then the Yellowstone Trail went thru there - one of the first coast to coast highways.

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:42 pm

Yo. Very cool bridge. I am here. Now. Not much else going on.

Hippie · Post by **Hippie** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:18 am

chitwnvw wrote:I have heat, but you'd laugh at how I am dressed while I am driving the Troutmobile.

Ah yes. "Heat" is relative in a Bus.

Rob

LiveonJG · Post by **LiveonJG** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:36 pm

Hippie wrote:
chitwnvw wrote:I have heat, but you'd laugh at how I am dressed while I am driving the Troutmobile.
Ah yes. "Heat" is relative in a Bus.

Rob

My heat works great!

As long as it isn't very cold out.

-John

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:01 pm

Hey chi, here is a pic I took the morning you left. You left just in time, the weather has been shiiiiiiiiiiitaaaaaaay since then.

Hippie · Post by **Hippie** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:32 pm

LiveonJG wrote:My heat works great!

As long as it isn't very cold out.

-John

That's OK. I don't drive much in the winter...but there are days when the road is dry and I wanna...but it's like 10 deg. No way Josee

ruckman101 · Post by **ruckman101** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:06 pm

Good to hear. We got three inches of snow today on Dunnigan Mountain, 1300 feet elevation.

neal

Sylvester · Post by **Sylvester** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:00 am

chitwnvw wrote:Knock on wood, I should be back in Chi town tomorrow.

Thanks for all the help everyone!

So what happened? Did Chitwnvw make it? Is he stranded in the hills of South Dakota?

tristessa · Post by **tristessa** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:50 am

Abducted by aliens?

chitwnvw · Post by **chitwnvw** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:34 am

US Route 12. The open road in a bus.

Looking a little worse for wear in South Dakota.

Bundled against the cold in South Dakota and Minnesota. Silly me I thought it would warm up once I got out of Montana.

Drifting snow in South Dakota.

Got into Chicago about 11:30 last night. Back at work this morning. Man I am beat.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 9:23 am

you always look so happy in your pics!

Itinerant Air-Cooled

Itinerant Air-Cooled

Troutmobile on the table