Countdown to TESS'S Road Trip!!
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Tess | Wednesday, March 20, 2002 - 11:04 pm     Marm, help!!! I picked up my AAA trip tik last night--both volumes--in addition to 9 extra maps and a tour book. They plotted out the WRONG route in PA!! They got the town wrong for when we're visiting relatives so our directions from Kep to PA and then from there to you are all wrong. I think I have a clue how what to do but let me know when you're around so I can be sure. They also gave me a very strange route from Zed to TK!! grrrrrrr. I have a sick feeling that it's going to be very expensive to hook up my laptop to my cell phone. I talked to one guy today and he didn't even know what I was talking about. However, Spy has graciously agreed to be my contact. I can't wait to get on the road. We're surrounded with new furniture, mostly still in shipping cartons. Our house is a maze of boxes and displaced furniture. A hotel room will seem spacious at this point!! |
Schoolmarm | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 03:23 am     Tess, It's easy....just get out your atlas...you were a geography major, remember. From Kep's...you want to get on the Ohio turnpike 80/90 (I think she's on the I-90 part) You will skirt around Cleveland. It's a GREAT road. Take I-80 into Pennsylvania, then get on I-79 south to the Cranberry/Mars exit. Stop at the K-Mart at the mall right there, as they are going out of business. I assume that you can get to your in-laws house from that exit. Now, to get up to Clarion (and I'm surprised that they didn't give you the Clarion that is near Philly....Pennsylvania has duplicate towns...big state). Get back on I-79 North and get on I-80 east. You might want to stop by the Grove City outlet mall at exit 113 before you get on I-80. Great shopping! That's where I ran out of gas last week. GET GAS THERE on the way down to Mars or back up. It's always at least a dime cheaper, if not more. From I-80 follow the directions that I emailed you. You could go from Mars to Clarion cross country, but it would be faster on the interstate. |
Tksoard | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 07:32 am     Tess, I don't know where Zed is, but coming from the east on I-40, Gordonsville is exit 258. Very easy and Mc's is right to the right of the exit. You'll see it. Good Luck!!! 21 Days!!! HOOO HOOOO  |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 08:38 am     There there, Tess, couple deep breaths. Go check on the Eiffel Tower for a minute. Ohhhhmmmmmmm. All better. Those bleeping, incompetent AAA flunkies ought to be flogged!
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Kep421 | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 11:32 am     Not to worry Tessie...I can get you to the turnpike...Its not very far from where we will be having lunch. I'm going to email you with the exit off I-90 (Exit 148) and my work email address so that I know when to meet you at the Steak-n-Shake. My boss gave me the afternoon off, so as soon as you arrive my work day will end!!! WOOHOO!!!! |
Tess | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 11:57 am     Yippeee, Keppy! I probably won't have email in the car so I'll have to send you my cell phone number if I haven't already. I can email you the night before with the time we're planning on leaving in the morning. We're trying to get to the Cranberry/Mars area in PA by early evening so we can see the kids before bed. Their children are younger than Sarah. Marm, that's exactly what I thought when I looked at the maps. Juju, I'm pretty sure that flogging is the answer. I'm just taking the free maps and ditching the trip tik. TK--Zed is on the OTHER side of those little bumps called the Great Smoky Mountains. Once I get on I-40 it's a straight shot to you! Then the trick will be to get checked into the hotel in Nashville before Tnt arrives for our evening of Survivor. I will send you my cell phone number also and will email you before we leave Zed's in the morning. It would be most helpful if someone would divert the Highway Patrol so I can get to all my destinations on time. Any volunteers?? |
Tksoard | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 03:31 pm     I'll do it Tess. I haven't met any of the THP since I've been here. Now if you go to Mich!!  |
Tess | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 03:42 pm     Thanks, TK!! You always come through in a pinch!! |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 04:12 pm     "I'm just taking the free maps and ditching the trip tik" There you go, Tess! That's the ticket!
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Tksoard | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 04:29 pm     Any time Tess. After all, we are the Volunteer State. Go Vols!!  |
Tess | Thursday, March 21, 2002 - 10:41 pm     Whooohooo, TK. I just realized tonight that I GAIN an hour before we get to you so we have more time than I thought. What a relief!!! We have to be checked into our hotel and then get to Marm's room before 7pm so we can watch Survivor and eat BBQ with Marm and Tnt. On the other hand, on the way out to Kep we lose an hour. I'll have to remember to tell my sister in law we'll be a tad bit late. I think it's about 310 miles to Kep from my sister's place in Chicago. Then it's about 125 miles the hotel near family in PA. We'll have all day Wednesday and then Thursday morning with them though. I am so ready to leave right now!!! Ok, maybe tomorrow. |
Jewels | Friday, March 22, 2002 - 01:31 pm     Tess, sounds like you are going to have a GREAT time on your trip! How exciting it is that you have been able to meet so many people!  |
Tess | Friday, March 22, 2002 - 01:55 pm     Thanks, Jewels. I feel very fortunate. People here are the most generous, warm-hearted group. |
Kep421 | Friday, March 22, 2002 - 04:30 pm     Hey Tessie...go to your local State Highway Patrol and make a donation to the Trooper's fund. They will give you this very nice sticker to put on your car, proudly promoting you as a supporter of the Highway Patrol. It's amazing how nice those stickers look when they are DISPLAYED in a PROMINENT place somewhere on the BACK OF YOUR CAR. I'm jus sayin'... |
Tess | Friday, March 22, 2002 - 11:48 pm     hahaahahaha---what a fabulous idea!!! |
Tess | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 01:08 am     8 hours and 53 minutes to departure.
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Soeur | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 03:58 am     Have a great day Tess. May the wind always be at your back |
Kep421 | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 05:05 am     OMG, ITs TOMORROW!!! WOO HOO!!! I will post here for you guys to let you know how are visit goes...Do you think Tess will be offended if I take notes? |
Webkitty | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 05:20 am     Have a fun trip, Tess! |
Neko | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 07:34 am     Maybe Kep maybe...LoL Have fun Tess!!! |
Car54 | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 07:43 am      |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 08:21 am     Bye, Tess, I miss you already, but I am glad you are getting out there for this big fun adventure. Hmmmmm, you have been on the road now for 15 minutes .. No, wait! You haven't left yet. You might take one more peek here before you go. I hope Sarah behaves like an angel and you don't have to put Charlie in too many time-outs. I hope your Tess-phone works as well as the Butter-phone but that you don't send e-mails while YOU are driving. I hope you have the best health you've ever had and that you don't tire yourself out. I hope everybody you meet is just as much fun in person as they are on the board. I hope you come back a richer person and that Charlie doesn't try to forbid you from associating with us ax murderers after meeting a few of them. Dang, I am getting so inspired, I might just take a little road trip myself while you are gone.
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Tess | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 09:35 am     aaaaaaaaaaaaaak---SNOW--HEAVY SNOW out my window. The plow just went down the street behind us so my little Subaru Forester will have to do its own plowing until we get over there. It's going to snow or rain all the way to Chicago. brrrrrr. 25 minutes to departure and my 2 assistants are packing the car. Did I mention there is SNOW all the way down the first leg of today's route? That would be US HWY 52 through Rochester to catch I-90 East. Juju, I will NOT be using the phone while I'm driving! I don't even do that in my own neighborhood let alone while I'm sledding down the interstate. Have no fear. Kep!! Watch out!! I'm bringing some really interesting Minnesota weather with me when I come! <wonders if Kep will end up with as many notes as Merlin.>
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Lancecrossfire | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 09:40 am     Take care Tess--especially with the bad weather. |
Buttercup | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 09:53 am     I kindly suggest that reports from Tess' roadtrip are put in the already existing Road Trips folder. Some of my reasons for suggesting this are: 1. There is already a link to the folder on www.tvclubhouse.com front page (Under Hot Topics...) 2. I think it would be nice to have all road trips in one place instead of having to search the board for people's trips 3. New and old members may get encouraged to post some of their own road trips in there as well I'm just sayin'...
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Lancecrossfire | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 10:07 am     That makes good sense Butter, especially since this thread is titled "countdown to TESS'S road trip". Once it starts, the count down is over. |
Juju2bigdog | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 02:04 pm     Sheesh! Picky picky. <ambles on over to the road trip thread>
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Kep421 | Monday, April 01, 2002 - 02:39 pm     Gotcha Butter!!! (...kep makes mental note to put written notes in other thread...what thread?...oh yeah...nevermind...) |
Admin | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 06:20 am     So what happened? Did you go? |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 10:18 am     Ack! You've got to get more "with it," Admin. The Beginning The End and a couple Archive threads in between.
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Admin | Monday, May 13, 2002 - 01:54 pm     Hmm...I'll have to get with it you're right. |
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