Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Tips on Quick Trips[NFC] - by request

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

Memories...as I recall the order of towns, Moab to Delta, then it got
really remote to Baker, and then Tonopah.  Tonopah is a tourist
destination due to the lack of light/skygazing opportunities.
Unfortunately my one night there was on a full moon night with
completely overcast skies.  :-(

We got some really quick traveling in those days in that area though,
and were sure to strictly adhere to the speed limits in town...

-matt
'85 308

On 5/18/08, ken rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com> wrote:
> Ha! I just wrote Hans about Tonopah, NV - as miserable a speed trap
> as ever there was. You have been ripping across the desert for hours
> at triple digits, then you come down the hill...
>
> Slow to 55
> Slow to 45 (there is nothing to see but a failed bared wire fence)
> Slow to 25 ... (an outhouse and a dead dog)
>
> Finally in town, sharp Left:  it's Slow to 15 - your sense of motion
> is so skewed from hours at high velocity that you feel you could get
> out of the car, walk to the corner and wait for it.
>
> The only place worse is Tularosa, NM; the venereal disease of small
> towns. 10 MPH and they trail you in unmarked cars for 3 miles out
> into the desert before the town limit ends - in unmarked Caprices.
> Try running THAT in a Ferrari, the cops are thicker than flies on a
> used tampon - which is a good mental picture of Tularosa when you
> think about it!
>
> uk