Let's talk about road trips.

Flying J, Coast to Coast AM, toels and road trips are all fantastic. This thread features correctness.

wow, that's inspiring, elvis. i'd love to know more about those smaller towns, like why you decided to stop there, and what wonders you found within them...

I'm making <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100374867501222670161.00000112a0d7abc6c0f06&quot;>this haul</a> next Tuesday and then again two weeks later. No stopping but to gas, eat, and pee. It was fun the first time, when I-40 was brand new to me. The second was still pretty fun despite getting stuck in an Albuqueque white-out for two days and then having to backtrack through New Mexico and go through west Texas to escape.

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wow, that's inspiring, elvis. i'd love to know more about those smaller towns, like why you decided to stop there, and what wonders you found within them...

It's all on my blog and Flickr stream from then. I've driven cross-country seven times, the Alaska run once, and a half-loop of Australia.

It's, er, what I do...

My criteria for what/where I stop at are pretty varied. Sometimes it's connect-the-dots (one trip was to finish off the remaining states I hadn't been to yet - I've been to all 50 now) others were to drive the complete length of US-50, check out art museums, gravestones, the remains of one of the Wilhelm Reich sites in Maine, dead mines, competing geographic centers, old movie sets, etc. etc. The only rule I have is to (if possible) avoid driving over the same road twice.

Also, to elaborate on the number of cross-country trips... The six trips were done by myself. If I include trips taken with one or more family members then it becomes nine cross-country trips.

once all the house shit goes through i think im finally gonna do the coast to coast thing maybe

Interstate highway/road trip landmark Flying J files for bankruptcy

NEW YORK (AFP) — Flying J, a big privately held firm that operates oil refineries and truck stops, said Monday it filed for bankruptcy protection, hit by the abrupt fall in energy prices and a credit crunch.

The Utah-based firm, which has some 16 billion dollars in 2007 revenues, said it filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code "to address near-term liquidity needs brought about by the precipitous decline in oil prices coupled with the disruption in the credit markets."

"All of Flying J's operations, including approximately 250 travel plazas and fuel stops, are open and serving customers in the normal course," the company said.

"The company plans to continue normal business operations as it moves through the reorganization process."

"Even though Flying J today is a successful and historically profitable company, it faced near-term liquidity pressure from an unprecedented combination of factors: the precipitous drop in the price of oil and the lack of available financing from our traditional sources due to disrupted credit markets," said J. Phillip Adams, president and chief executive.

"With this sudden and unanticipated inability to meet our liquidity needs, we regret that we had no other choice than a Chapter 11 filing to enable us to stabilize our financial base."

Flying J is among the 20 largest private companies in America, with some 16,000 employees in the US and Canada.

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RFI: Attractions in New York State and surrounding areas. No more than 3 hrs away (flexible for something really awesome). Would prefer country to city (eg. Sorry, Philly) and cheap is a big plus.