Hi all...
We're off-literally. I'm writing from 30-some-odd-k feet, enroute
to Los Angeles. 
As
some of you may remember, I bought a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia Deluxe
Campmobile in December of last year, with a toasted engine. With the
assistance of my good friend Darryl Evey (runs Desert Autohaus
in
Victorville CA, drop by and see him if you're in the area and need
some VW parts), I rebuilt the engine during the Christmas break.
Darryl finished up putting the engine in the bus, and has been
breaking it in for me, and now I'm on my way out to CA to drive her
home to Texas. Joining me on this worthwhile endeavor is my co-worker
and fellow lunatic Craig McKibben, who thought that a 1400 mile run
in a '78 bus was just what the doctor ordered for those worktime
blues. 
Crazy,
eh? ;-) Start was a little rough, we got to Austin's airport at 5pm,
with a 5:17 flight, but we pulled it off, and are on the way. I'm
listening to mp3s of the Grateful Dead at Red Rocks, 9-6-85, while I
write, and Craig's alternately
futzing with the QuickCam, getting photos of the plane, and playing
the old StarWars arcade game in MacMAME. Many dead TIE fighter
pilots...
This should prove to be an interesting trip. We're taking a large
portion of I-40 (aka old Route 66) through AZ and NM, then cutting
down through Roswell NM and visiting Carlsbad Caverns, before
returning across the vast wastelands of West Texas and hitting
Austin. Additionally, we've got the oddball factor going: 2 geeks, 3
Apple Laptops with attendant cables and dongles, a Connetix QuickCam,
a GPS reciever and attendant map software, a '78 VW bus, 4 cds of
live Grateful Dead mp3s, all 4 StarWars 
soundtracks
in mp3 format, and a plethora of other fun software and hardware...
;-) Being that we have the camera, we will be documenting all of this
as we go in html, the pages (in fact, one's there now to accompany
this report) are at <http://www.hintz.org/trip2/>. We'll likely
be the only type 2 on the road with it's very own local area network.
;-) We should be arriving in LA around 8pm, then we'll be driving on
out to visit with my Grandfater and Mom-she doesn't know I'm coming,
thinks I'm in Texas, so it should be a cool early Mother's Day
present... ;-) More tomorrow from the road... ;-)
As
some of you may remember, I bought a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia Deluxe
Campmobile in December of last year, with a toasted engine. With the
assistance of my good friend Darryl Evey (runs Desert Autohaus
in
Victorville CA, drop by and see him if you're in the area and need
some VW parts), I rebuilt the engine during the Christmas break.
Darryl finished up putting the engine in the bus, and has been
breaking it in for me, and now I'm on my way out to CA to drive her
home to Texas. Joining me on this worthwhile endeavor is my co-worker
and fellow lunatic Craig McKibben, who thought that a 1400 mile run
in a '78 bus was just what the doctor ordered for those worktime
blues. 
Crazy,
eh? ;-) Start was a little rough, we got to Austin's airport at 5pm,
with a 5:17 flight, but we pulled it off, and are on the way. I'm
listening to mp3s of the Grateful Dead at Red Rocks, 9-6-85, while I
write, and Craig's alternately
futzing with the QuickCam, getting photos of the plane, and playing
the old StarWars arcade game in MacMAME. Many dead TIE fighter
pilots...