Anyone made a SLC to Chicago drive before?

[bigpiney]

Originally Posted by YOhio

Do you have an ipod? If so, download a couple of audiobooks and you can get an FM modulator for pretty cheap. If not, you can hear some hilarious local AM radio. At night you can pick up signals from all across the US.

There are places to find free audiobooks too. If you look in the right places. and by this I mean legally. I could try and find some of the links I had in the past if wanted.

[ewth8tr]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

I love green. Out west nothing stays green past June. I thought it was amazing that once you hit Nebraska the nation is green in August all the way out to the East coast.

yeah, same here, but just not if all of the green is corn stalks. I love driving through missouri for that reason.

[RockyBalboa]

It doesn't have a tape deck either. An AM/FM dial and that's it.

Also the guy who mostly drives it, told me that if you start to reach 80 MPH that it starts shaking. It has 123,000 miles on it and it's a crappy Chevy Cobalt or Cavalier...something like that.

I'm thinking I'm gonna tell the bossman no.

[nikuman]

I've done the trip 8 or so times now. Nebraska is boring. Wyoming is double boring. Laramie is an abosolute pit. Iowa is not too bad though.

[RockyBalboa]

Originally Posted by nikuman

I've done the trip 8 or so times now. Nebraska is boring. Wyoming is double boring. Laramie is an abosolute pit. Iowa is not too bad though.

If I do make the trip I'll probably break it down like this:

Friday: go from SLC to Cheyenne

Sat: Cheyenne to Des Moines

Sun: Des Moines to Chicago

Then that Tues and Wed I have meetings all day in Chicago and fly home Wed night.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by RockyBalboa

If I do make the trip I'll probably break it down like this:

Friday: go from SLC to Cheyenne

Sat: Cheyenne to Des Moines

Sun: Des Moines to Chicago

Then that Tues and Wed I have meetings all day in Chicago and fly home Wed night.

That's kind of weak.

Try this:

Friday: SLC to Lincoln

Sat: Lincoln to Chicago

[hyrum]

Originally Posted by RockyBalboa

If I do make the trip I'll probably break it down like this:

Friday: go from SLC to Cheyenne

Sat: Cheyenne to Des Moines

Sun: Des Moines to Chicago

Then that Tues and Wed I have meetings all day in Chicago and fly home Wed night.

Personally I would try to get it done in two days, then you could have an extra day in Chicago. Boring, boring drive. It takes 8 hrs just to get across Nebraska. Too bad its a Chevy Cadaver. Is there some sort of AAA break-down coverage for this trip? It would suck to be stuck in Ogallala, Nebraska for two days while the transmission is repaired or something.

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by hyrum

Boring, boring drive. It takes 8 hrs just to get across Nebraska.

I've driven all over this great land of ours and there is but one truly boring, boring drive. That is the drive from SLC through America's Afghanistan (Nevada) and then into Oregon or California. The ugliest, most boring godforsaken trip one can make in this nation. At least Nebraska is green.