On the road again

[Don Bradner]

My running years are behind me, but we are avid geocachers so I want to be able
to do long walks on uneven ground without incident, hopefully soon!

Thanks for the invite, but we won't be hitting the northeast this trip - expect
to hit the east coast in Virginia, then spend several weeks working our way down
to Florida. Only scheduled items on our itinerary are RATS and a rally we run
that will be in Tampa in November.

On 8/18/2008 at 11:18 PM thomas_sorrentino wrote:

>Hey Don,
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>Are you coming as far as NY? If so, I've got some free parking here!
>Good news, I broke my ankle about 15 years ago, plate and screws
>thing also,it does get better. I've since been able to run 1/2
>marathons and triathlons! (not lately though).
>
>Tom Sorrentino
>1987 PT38
>Bedford Hills, NY
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>--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
> wrote:
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>> Left home in Eureka today, exactly 10 weeks after badly breaking my
>right ankle. Got the surgeon to remove the one screw that had to come
>out (tied tibia and fibula together) on Thursday, and it is still
>complaining a bit about that.
>>
>> I gave it a good workout today by crossing on California 299. This
>is only the second time I've driven an RV West-East on that road, and
>the first time in a 40 footer. For those unfamiliar with it, the 150
>miles from the coast to Redding crosses four passes and has very few
>straight parts. The middle portion along the Trinity river was thick
>with smoke. Before we left this morning a neighbor told me that they
>had heard 299 was closed because of a flare-up at Big Bar, but a call
>to Cal-Trans indicated the road was open.
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>> When we got to Big Bar, the grass was flaming right against the
>pavement! Saw lots of fire crews, but didn't see any that appeared to
>be doing anything. Huge tent city fire camps at Junction City.
>Between Junction City and Big Bar is where that helicopter went down
>August 6.
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>> Going up the 8% grade to Oregon Mountain, the third of the 4
>passes, I was down to 18MPH in first gear to keep the engine at 200
>in the 100+ air temps.
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>> The culmination of that crossing is 5 miles of continuous hairpins
>down from Buckhorn, the last summit. There is literally no stretch of
>straight road in that 5 miles, which drops a bit over 1500 feet in
>the process. Most turns marked as either 20MPH or 25MPH.
>>
>> We usually go either north or south on 101 before heading east, but
>since we are going to Salt Lake City it would be a lot of extra miles
>to go any other way. Price we pay for living behind the Redwood
>Curtain.
>>
>> Don Bradner
>> 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
>> Posting today by satellite from Susanville, CA
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>> Don Bradner
>> 90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
>> My location: http://www.bbirdmaps.com/user2.cfm?user=1
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