Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Crowdsourcing our Sea-to-Shining-Sea Rally:EasternUSroute

[clyde romero (clyderomero]

You need to get out more Charles!

            
  
Clyde
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Perry [mailto:charles [at] carolina-sound.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 12:41 PM
To: clyde
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Crowdsourcing our Sea-to-Shining-Sea
Rally:EasternUSroute

The last time I drove it in a Ferrari was 2001 when I bought my 355
spider and drove it home from Chicago. The parkway was slow on weekends
because of the camper convoys and Harley groups that just toodled
around, but still a terrific drive in my opinion, as long as you trust
your group to safely pass on double yellows, which is illegal and yet
necessary.

About mid-way through VA we pulled over on a scenic outlook and the car
wouldn't start again. Battery was bad from previous owner neglect. We
called the rangers and waited about 35 minutes for one to show up to
jump start us. 

He told us that the Pkwy was one of the most under-patrolled areas in
the country and was thus a popular drug-running corridor since the odds
of getting stopped were low. He also had some pretty serious weaponry in
the front seat for the same reason. At the time, he told me they only
had two rangers to patrol the whole parkway.

Obviously 8 years is a lot of time and they may have cracked down to
address the problem above, but we encountered no officers on the whole
parkway except for the one we asked for.

-- charles

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Liu [mailto:bigheaddennis [at] gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:48 AM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: 'The FerrariList'
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Crowdsourcing our Sea-to-Shining-Sea Rally:
EasternUSroute

True - I did Skyline a few years back, and it was slow.  But we took it
easy and didn't consider it a challenge, more as a scenic drive.  Do
others here think the tradeoff isn't worth it? 

Thanks,

--Dennis 

-----Original Message-----
From: clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net [mailto:clyderomero [at] 
worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:46 AM
To: BigHeadDennis [at] gmail.com
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Crowdsourcing our Sea-to-Shining-Sea Rally:
Eastern USroute

Ok let me stop you now
Stay off the Blue Ridge Pkwy
They patrol that better than we did the no fly zone over Iraq!
Speed limit is a whooping 45 MPH and its a Federal Ticket to boot We run
it on bikes because we can out run the cars they use You will loose
massive amounts of time if you take the Pkyway

Don't say I didn't warn you!

Clyde 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Liu <bigheaddennis [at] gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:21:42
To: clyde<clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net>
Cc: The FerrariList<ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: [Ferrari] Crowdsourcing our Sea-to-Shining-Sea Rally: Eastern
US
        route


First off, I want to convey my gratitude again at everyone that
responded.
We're getting closer on the details, and I'm anticipating when I'll be
able
to tell you more - very soon.  

(And if you do reply, please make sure to include my email directly in
your
response, as I'm not subscribed to the Flist)


Anyway, I've penciled in the Manhattan to Denver leg of the trip (still
working on the "fun" stuff West of Denver, though it depends in part on
whether a certain former late night talk show host may want to meet up
with
us and if we can weasel a garage tour :-) .  We'll take 3 days to get to
Denver, then 4-5 days to get to Monterey.

Here it is, and any further refinements, suggestions or WARNINGS would
be
very much appreciated!

Sunday:  Manhattan to Hot Springs, West Virginia.  500 miles,
approximately
11 hours, but we should be able to shave an hour off that, though we may
well lose it for photo stops, etc.  This takes us out of Manhattan and
onto
I-78 through Allentown and Harrisburg, PA.  This route allows us to
avoid
the usual weekend Eastern Seaboard Metropolis traffic.  Then onto I-81,
through the corner of Maryland, to Front Royal, VA - the Northern
terminus
of the legendary Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkway,
http://www.blueridgeskyline.com/.  It'll be a Sunday in August, so
there'll
be traffic, but it's beautiful.  All the way down Skyline Drive, which
goes
through the heart of Shenandoah National Park.  At the Southern
terminus, we
will continue onto the Blue Ridge Parkway, but if the traffic is
horrendous,
or if we've been otherwise delayed, we can bail off of Skyline at a
couple
of different points and get onto I-81).  We exit off the Blue Ridge
Parkway
on Rt 56 (north of Montebello, VA) and take some state roads to Hot
Springs,
WV, where we overnight here:  http://www.thehomestead.com/

Monday:  Hot Springs, WV to St Louis, Missouri.  686 miles,
approximately 12
hours, though, again, we should be able to shave an hour off.  We start
the
morning by driving through the Highland Scenic Highway,
http://www.byways.org/explore/byways/2460/travel.html, in the
Monongahela
National Forest, http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/mnf/general_info/intro.shtml.
We
pick up I-64 just SW of Charleston, WV and start flying out west,
through
Louisville, KY, and overnight in St Louis, MO.

Tuesday:  St Louis, MO to Denver, CO.  850 miles, about 12.5 hours, but
we
should be ashamed if we can't do it in 11 hours, since it's all highway,
on
I-70.  We'll stop in Kansas City for some REAL BBQ.

Total mileage for this leg:  approximately 2,036 miles, or 35 hours (or
32
for us).  The direct highway shot between Manhattan and Denver is 1800
miles, though it's probably a realistic 26 hours total, so we're adding
6
hours with our scenic touring.

Thx,

--Dennis


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