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Team 364 is taking a charter bus out of Gulfport. 6 and a half hours. not bad.
Just wandering, what does your team do on long road trips to get ready for competition and just for fun?

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Well we have made it to atlanta. Its the most confusing city in the world. Alll the one way rodes the bad traffice and there was a copy every mile on 75 it was horrible

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Some of you may have seen this cruizin south....



I know Ryan Saw me, for like 2 seconds just cause traffic slowed him down, man they go fast on 710.

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Why were you going south?...shouldn't you have been heading north, or were you bringing your equipment directly from another competition?

Do you not have a radar detector? I do believe that either Virginia is the only state left that has a ban on the great things or there is one other state. If I lived anywhere else, I would probably already have one, and I may get one when I go off to college in PA, but for now, I just watch out and have been good enough to avoid any police confrontation so far!

It is too bad that I wasn't going to Atlanta...I could be pimping my hot ride:
1968 Dodge Dart

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Nice ride!

It was for the ride home after nats, i didnt think a new thread was nessesary. No i dont have a radar detector, but i just didnt want to go any faster not safe with an old trailer witha big expesive robot in it.

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yes we have a radar and a jammer but it doesnt help when its on mute, we were in a city and forgot to turn it off mute

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le beast averaged around 90 MPH the way back... And this time we made sure the volume on the detector was full tilt

We had 2 detectors, but the one that was up on the dashboard had the volume turned off (thank you ryan) during our stop in fort pierce (cut over to 75) and i opened her up once I got on, and was doing about 97-98 for about 5 minutes and then saw some cute little blue lights come from the other direction and do a U turn through the median and start following me, she clocked me at 91, and legally I coulda been dragged off to jail, but she was nice enough to let me go. (luckily I ripped down the jammer/detector down before she saw it)

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18 hours from Rhode Island to Atlanta certainly brought the team closer. Driving nonstop and changing bus drivers in Virginia, we left Tuesday night at 7pm and arrived in Atlanta around 1pm the next day. On Saturday we left soon after closing ceremonies, about 7:30pm, and got back into Rhode Island around 1:30pm the next day. A long trip that I would have gladly replaced with a plane ride.

We took a Peter Pan chater bus that was as uncomfortable on the way down as it was on the way back. In total, seven movies, roughly 2000 miles, and stops in Virginia, New Jersey, and North Carolina made for an interesting journery. The worst part though, for everyone, especially me, was trying to get sleep. Those seats were sooo uncomfortable.

It was an experience though that I won't forget. I had a chance to take a 2.5 hour direct flight, but for some insane reason I didn't. I recall seeing some buses from Canada, did some teams really drive that far? They deserve an award. Any longer and I would have gone insane! :ahh:

-TD

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The reason tom could not sleep is because he kept trying to snuggle with me hahah. Actually it was a fun bus ride. How else can you watch the ENTIRE star wars triology in one sitting

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and you also got to hear Dave Ferreira recite every line! :D But anyway...the bus ride wasn't too bad. It might've been better if Rick didn't borrow my "pillow" (sweatshirt) on the way back, but I didn't expect to get much sleep anyway. I hope 121 flies next year.

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The trilogy was quite amusing...it didn't end until I think 2am. Anyways, Rick can't say much because he took up his seat and half of mine and I was nearly sitting in the aisle. Rob and some certain other hooligans had TWO seats all to themselves and I was stuck with Rick. That lack of sleep lead to 14 hours of nap time that night (and meetings missed back at school). Maybe next year when we fly I can shove him out on to the aisleway :) .

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Hey guys, give the bus some credit. The money that we saved by taking the bus allowed us to go to three events. What would yu rather do, take a flight to nationals, or only have the opportunity to attend 2 events? I personally relish the opportunity to destroy my gpa by skipping school for three events. I am willing to spend some time on the bus and be able to go to nationals.

And I don't understand why you couldnt sleep Tom, Ricksta should make a very comfortable pillow :D

Rob

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Wait... saved money = three events... ok. Team 240: bus must = saved money, 2 events? Ok where'd the PR department put the money cause its sure not on our robot. What I'm getting a 50% raise! w00t! Ya theres a reason why I don't do much of the math on the robot...

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[Sarcasm]Oh, I enjoyed the 20 hour or so bus ride from Rhode Island to Atlanta and the 20 hour or so bus ride back! Being crammed in a seat with nothing to do except play gameboy and listen to music was the best part! I hope our team takes the bus again next year :) [/Sarcasm]

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108 went for the Indiana Jones Trilogy

...and true lies, and lord of the rings, and air force one...

Good times :D