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Re: Pictures From Big April 28th Southern California Meeting
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lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.people, lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 2 May 2001 12:20:16 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Frank Filz writes:

Ross Crawford even managed to keep up with Larry.

This may sound like a "remarkable statement" but it is not. I wasn't driving
nearly as fast as I usually do, and certainly not as fast as most of the
traffic. Ross's challenge is that his idea of following is to follow at a
polite distance, like 1/4 mile back... must be those wide open spaces in Oz.

I'm not sure I'd say "most" of the traffic, but yea, whoever (I think it
was Kevin) was complaining about the "slow" Southern California drivers
must not have been driving on the same highways as we did.

This does not work on US freeways, you need to follow much much closer or
you get boxed in and stranded and then have to dig your way out and haul
butt to catch up.

One reason caravaning doesn't tend to work too well.

The person at Sunday Breakfast that Frank forgot was Paul Gyugi...

Hmm, I guess I was too busy contemplating my breakfast... I should have
remembered Paul since I bought so much from him at the December Baylug
meeting (I really need to stop trying to pretend I'm a west coast
AFOL..., when's the next PNLTC meeting? :-) :-)

--
Frank Filz

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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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  Re: Pictures From Big April 28th Southern California Meeting
 
(...) No kidding. I was cruising at about 75-80mph and people were passing me like I was standing still. I never could figure out why they were tailgating me when I was in the 2nd lane from the right with two or three open lanes to my left. ~Grand (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Pictures From Big April 28th Southern California Meeting
 
(...) This may sound like a "remarkable statement" but it is not. I wasn't driving nearly as fast as I usually do, and certainly not as fast as most of the traffic. Ross's challenge is that his idea of following is to follow at a polite distance, (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)

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