I know how you feel
@DCB-270 , we get a couple weeks and can do that twice a year. But lately, during the summer season, just getting a weekend off is almost impossible. Hence missing the gathering a few weeks back on Texoma. Going to Bimini or even Arkansas is just not possible for us. I wanted to make the Tablerock event too, but it is a day getting there, and a day coming home. So being in the glass business, I get that your
days are busy, right up to late Friday most weeks I am sure. Kind of makes distance a challenge. Even Texoma is a push for you guys I am sure.
We may keep the boat, or we may sell it...just kind of up in the air. I am putting all new Carlisle Trailer Radials on the trailer this week, and adding a second spare. We don't want to deal with tire issues, and that was one thing last year on the Powell trek that worked just fine. With less than 4000 miles on the tires, maybe I don't need to worry or be concerned...but driving such distances for 2 to 3 days each direction, I don't want to deal with it at all. The I will have 4 good spares, 4 years old, with 3000-4000 miles on them. Guess I could offer them for sale. But without wheels, I don't know the value or desire. This probably should be a thread of its own...but all of you I know, have known, for a number of years...so just kind of talking out loud here.
@PEARCE , like many trade workers that have weekends off, your job(s) affords you weekends!...and I get the cruiser idea. I love the idea and would do it in a heartbeat. We even shopped for one just before we bought the '08 yamaha. But alas, not many weekends. The boathouses can be a ghost town during the week, the restaurants can be closed, and not much activity. I had a landscaper, a plumber, and roofing contractor, that all had cruisers...they don't work weekends. You may remember too, that in the mid 90's, we bought a Trojan...that cost me more than I could stomach in the first year.
Hmm
, am I seeing a pattern here?
The coach about ran us off that first year too.
It is the last hurrah for it if it breaks down again on the Powell trip this year. We have enjoyed getting it in condition...just replaced the air bed with a memory foam...so sleeping is going to be great now!
@Jebinok @farrelltravis ... so the 19th-22nd? The 22nd is a Monday. We will come if you guys help us old farts Hot Sauce the boat after we take it out of the lake!
