Manly Road Trip!

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Sorry I haven't been around this weekend dudes, but a friend of mine, his son, and I went from his house to Sacramento this weekend to pick up a free Jeep for the son as a project... We left at 6:30 am on Saturday morning, with the tow bar and stuff in tow for the jeep, stopped at the flying J truck stop in Gorman, fueled up my truck and ate some breakfast.  Continued on the road, got into Sacramento at about 1:30pm, as I was doing 80 mph in my empty truck the whole way up.  Stopped at a friends house to pickup a "total gym 1000" that she was giving away, and my wife wanted it.  From there, we drove to Beale AFB, about 70 miles north of Sac, put the tow shackles and tow bar on the jeep, and pulled out, with the jeep in tow.  At this time it was 5pm Saturday evening.  Got back on the road, and drove to Ripon, Ca, where we again stopped at the Flying J, fueled up, and ate a buffet dinner.  Got in the truck, and got back on the road.  Got back to my friends house in San Pedro, at 3:15am...

Talk about a turn around trip! 21 hours round trip, 17.5 hours spent driving, 1100 miles of california covered, round trip.  The best part was I felt like a MACHINE!  I drove the entire time (It IS my truck afterall) All in all, we had a blast, and got to talk alot about life love and the pursuit of happiness.  The only bummer is, being that his wife is in the Airforce, they have orders, and are moving to Minot, ND in 4 weeks

All in all though, it was a fun trip, I am sad that I didn't get to stop at Stogies in Lodi.. At least I think thats what its called.  Anyhow, thats the end of my story
Scott