THE Northeast Caravan - Others welcome and wouldn't mind picking up a few on the way
 

Soooooo we're about 3 weeks away from leaving and I feel it's time to get this thing going. Here is what's happening. I'm picking up a friend from Islip LI's MacArthur airport on Tuesday night. We'll probably be heading out to PA that night and spending Wednesday in Lenhartsville :suspect: From there we're leaving at about 8 AM and we expect to be rolling into the NHV around 7pm.

We'll be traveling down 78 to 81 and from there.... well I'm not sure if we're going to take the dragon to get there or just head straight to the cabin. In other words, not sure if we'll take 81 to 26 or 81 to 40 to 129 as it would add about an hour to the trip.

So if you're interested in joining... post up and lets try to make something happen.

-Brian

Swing by here and I'll join in. :)

:rofl: Sure..... it's only 28 hrs out of the way... . When is your expected arrival?

Planning to figure out a way to actually join up this time.
You have a PM in response to your PM.

Are the Hampton Roads guys still hooking up with you? and are the plans still for Thursday drive down?

Cool, thanks David, I'll check that in a second.

Haven't heard anything from the hampton va guys. But yes, we plan to drive down Thursday, leave at 8 am and arrive between 19-20:00. I've found that mapquest is close to actual travel time while my gps is closer to driving time as I believe it calculates based on my moving avg. When/where are the hampton guys leaving from? What's their plan right now?

TTT - I'm heading down solo from the northeast corner of Maryland, but it sounds like I might be able to link up with you guys somewhere on I-81, depending on what time I hit the road.

My route takes me south on I-95 to the Baltimore beltway, then south-west via the I-70/US-340 route thru WV & VA till I hit I-81 south in VA. Lesson learned last year is I need to hit the road a little earlier this time around to avoid wasting too much time sitting in Baltimore beltway traffic. Figure if I leave home NLT 0630~0700, by 1000~1030 I should be having my 1st pit stop somewhere along I-81 for gas & eats.

How about we exchange PMs with cell #'s, and I can call during my first I-81 pit stop? Then we can figure out if/where a link up along I-81 is possible. I wouldn't expect anyone to wait up for me, and likewise if I'm way ahead of the caravan, I'll just press on solo.

Pete

Sounds like a plan to me! We're planning on rolling into NHV around 19:00-20:00 so if that's around when you plan on getting in, we should be good!

Last year I hit the road at 0730, which sucked b/c I wasted almost an extra hour stuck in B-more beltway traffic. I still made it to NHV by about 1830~1900 (direct route there), but I had to rush the food & gas pit stops to make up time. This year I figure if I hit the road 30~60 minutes earlier, I'll get ahead of the worst of the B-more traffic which should buy me the time to take more leisurely pit stops and still get to NVH around the same time. Don't know about you, but after 3~4 hours straight in the FC, I NEED a good stretch!

Sending a PM with my cell #, give me a ring when you hit VA on I-81 or make your 1st pit stop there and I'll do the same.

I'm still campaigning for a slightly earlier arrival into town on the Thursday, but other than that I think we will probably be in for the Thursday morning meet-up somewhere in PA.

So that puts you in Strasburg VA around 11am? I'm gonna be heading down from Rockville MD so could meet up along 81.

Nah, the RX8 seats are money.... 22 hrs in them, then a 3 hr nap, then back on the rd :willy_nilly: Then again.... I was filling up every 4 hrs or so and RUNNING to the bathroom, then back to the pump... then RUNNING to the bathroom again... so that was pretty much my stretching... sprinting across the parking lot yet puckering at the same time :rofl:

Got the PM.... been meaning to call to discuss... I'll try to do that tonight when I have a map infront of me so we can figure some shit out. Would love to pick up a few along the wa.

Love it! Where do you expect to be staying in PA on Wednesday night? I'd put money on you guys cruising right past Daves shop. Depending on where you're thinking of staying, and when you want to leave, I think we could definately meet up. We're planning on leaving Lenhartsville @ 08:00 which puts us in NHV ~7pm.

Do you have definate arrangements for Wednesday night in PA?

Per MapQuest, yes right around 11:00hrs. What about Bawb? Is he traveling with you? I think we're picking up Whoopie ~09:00 in Harrisburg as well.

Pete - does your route take you anywhere near Strasburg or are you heading south before you head west?

I haven't talked to Bawb about it yet I'll do that now. Is whoopie for sure driving his FC down then?

I hop on I-81S in Winchester VA, which is just a few miles/exits north of Strasburg VA on I-81, so yeah that would be a good meeting spot. The trick will be timing.

Last I heard he was going to, but I haven't spoken to him since I told him to stop whining and buy a different harness :rofl: I'd imagine he still will though. Lemme know 'bout you and Bawbers... he's bringing the grub, gotta have him present :rofl:

I agree, Timing is going to be the suck part. We're planning on leaving @ 08:00, I've got a buddy who's going to leave Stamford @ 05:30 so he can meet us in PA @ 08:00 which puts us around Strasburg around 11. If you want to leave earlier, beat the traffic and take the leisurely route/pitstops/food thing, we can communicate via cell phone and pick a spot farther south to meet, or leave later? I dunno... what do you think?