well, the rendezvous points depend on who we are rendezvous-ing with and that is going to be up in the air till the last week, realistically...some will be die hard definites and others will not, or will have something come up, etc. SO, I'm thinking that we plan a corse from Claremore to Deadhorse and back to the, oh lets call it the BUP (break up point) - where we split up and head our separate ways home...at the BUP, some smaller caravans may still be intact, e.g a car from Kansas City and a car from St. Louis will be together till Kansas City...but those smaller caravans can be constituted on the spot. Let's focus on getting the route down - going through the areas we want to go through - there and back. I advocate two different routes for variety and different sights, etc...but neither should take us too far out of the way. Once we nail the MAIN ITENERAY DOWN (claremore -> deadhorse -> BUP), then we can decide where along THAT route it would be best to rendezvous with other people coming on board that are not starting at the OkieQ. My two cents. Chris
OK Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just ran three scenarios through MapPoint from my house (140 miles from the OkieQ) to Deadhorse, AK (one way) - Quickest trip - 4130.1 miles, 6 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes. Shortest trip - 4121.9 miles, 6 days, 5 hours, 13 minutes. "Preferred roads" - 4397.1 miles, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes. (heavy on limited access) I haven't dug through the route to find the differences yet, but they're not very significant --- Now, where were the possible rendezvous points? On 12/13/05, Hans Neureiter wrote: > Attached map, if it doesn't get stripped, shows a treck from OkieQ to > Prudhoe Bay @ 9,500 miles round trip. This is just about 2 1/2 weeks. > ( - Winnipeg - Saskatoon - Edmonton - Whitehorse - Fairbanks - ) > > -- > Hans Neureiter, Houston, TX > '82 300SD, '95 E300D -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC The FSM created the Diesel Benz http://www.venganza.org/ _______________________________________ For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net Christopher McCann, Squier Park, Kansas City, Missouri -2005 Blue Point Siamese, "Rose" -1987 300TD, 150K, "Rotkäppchen" -1985 300SD, 210K, "Wulf" -1976 240D, ?K, "AKP-Wagen" (Alternativen Kraftstoffs Prüfenlastwagen) -1972 Jacobsen 21" Turbo Vent -1971 Case 222 Hydrive, 12HP Kohler, 38" deck, Snowcaster, "One Banger" --------------------------------- Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Holiday Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 15 00:03:44 2005 Received: from web30012.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.201.215]) by server5.arterytc5.net with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Emgb1-0004Il-NA for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:03:43 +0000 Received: (qmail 48624 invoked by uid 60001); 15 Dec 2005 00:03:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=hAwiTwVEWJaM6aVw/QZR3vAk9xAfwqi/dScpRgDopNIQctyGymJupyTZ/VzSDuMayKxQWCOaYemz82ONgmyxy+InATDrd0LVcsc1EH9q2G3taGvgQAO14uI0F6iSpNKGs7sh+jOS9Gl+JLb5nd9Fv9SxQKBN1TGKPjprv8+Q53c= ; Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from [66.140.70.226] by web30012.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:03:39 PST Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:03:39 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.6 Subject: Re: [MBZ] ArcticQ - US rendezvous point X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes mailing list <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:03:44 -0000 Something like this is exactly what I had in mind...with Denver being the main break up point (BUP) OR, forget the BUP and set a claremore -> deadhorse -> claremore route (different each way) and people peel off on the return route as needed/wanted to get back home. Chris Hans Neureiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a route that avoids double backing for the most part, like a figure 8 between Wichita KS and Watson Lake with the cross over at Hinton/Jasper, Alberta. Distance and Times are according to MS Streets & Trips. Main Junctions on Route from Oklahoma City to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and back: Oklahoma City, OK > I-29 N Topeka, KS > US Hwy 75 N Omaha, NE > I-29 N Sioux Falls, NE Fargo, ND Winnipeg > CAN I-1 W Regina > Saskatchewan Hwy 11 N Saskatoon > CAN I-16 W Edmonton Hinton > Alberta Hwy 40 N Grand Prarie > Alberta Hwy 2 W / BC Hwy 97 N Watson Lake > Yukon Hwy 1 N Beaver Creek > AK Hwy 2 W Fairbanks Livengood > Dalton Hwy Deadhorse/Prudhoe ______________________________________________ Fairbanks > AK Hwy 2 E Watson Lake > BC Hwy 37 S Kitwanga > CAN I-16 E Jasper > BC Hwy 93 S Eureka > US Hwy 93 S Missoula MT > I-90 E Buffalo WY > I-25 S Denver CO > I-70 E Salina KS >I-135 S Wichita KS > I-29 S Oklahoma City OK _______________________________________________ TOTAL: 8,922 miles 180 hrs driving On 12/13/05, OK Don wrote: > > I just ran three scenarios through MapPoint from my house (140 miles > from the OkieQ) to Deadhorse, AK (one way) - > > Quickest trip - 4130.1 miles, 6 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes. > > Shortest trip - 4121.9 miles, 6 days, 5 hours, 13 minutes. > > "Preferred roads" - 4397.1 miles, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes. > (heavy on limited access) > > I haven't dug through the route to find the differences yet, but > they're not very significant --- > > Now, where were the possible rendezvous points? > > > -- > Hans Neureiter, Houston, TX > '82 300SD, '95 E300D _______________________________________ For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net Christopher McCann, Squier Park, Kansas City, Missouri -2005 Blue Point Siamese, "Rose" -1987 300TD, 150K, "Rotkäppchen" -1985 300SD, 210K, "Wulf" -1976 240D, ?K, "AKP-Wagen" (Alternativen Kraftstoffs Prüfenlastwagen) -1972 Jacobsen 21" Turbo Vent -1971 Case 222 Hydrive, 12HP Kohler, 38" deck, Snowcaster, "One Banger" --------------------------------- Yahoo! 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Shopping From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 15 00:10:00 2005 Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net ([216.148.227.154] helo=rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Emgh5-0004wo-QR for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:10:00 +0000 Received: from comcast.net (c-24-18-178-168.hsd1.wa.comcast.net[24.18.178.168](misconfigured sender)) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with SMTP id <20051215000955014008ifkce>; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:09:55 +0000 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:09:53 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: redghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] QoD X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes mailing list <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:10:00 -0000 Yeah, I know it is my fault. No matter how much I take care of the car, I get blamed if it is not perfect. I just do not have a place to work on the car that is warm, light and safe enough to do a change of glow plug at the moment. On Wednesday, December 14, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Jim Cathey wrote: >> she has not been able to >> figure out how to start Gump, so I am safe enough. May get sucked >> into >> being her driver for a while. Wonder if I can get more nookie that >> way? > > Oh, you dreamer you. No matter how she screws up, it will somehow be > ALL YOUR FAULT. > > My wife refuses to consider driving the Frankenheap. Partly because > it's a new kind of stick to drive (she's only driven the Dodge and > Chevy trucks [stick] prior to this), and partly because it's not > key-start. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > > -- Clay Seattle Bioburner 1972 220D - Gump 1995 E300D - Cleo 1987 300SDL - POS - DOA The FSM would drive a Diesel Benz
