We're Off Part 2.... AZ-WY-MT-SD-AZ

[IdahoRanger]

Me right now:

Mark, you must share the same "heavy right foot syndrome" as me.

Dave, @AzScorpion is driving with a passenger and has to behave. I like to scare the crap out of my passengers.

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[NTXTremor]

Mark, you must share the same "heavy right foot syndrome" as me.

Dave, @AzScorpion is driving with a passenger and has to behave. I like to scare the crap out of my passengers.

I really don't, though. Ever since I owned a 1974 Volvo station wagon in college, my wife has told me I drive like an 80 year old man. She drives like a NASCAR racer.

Maybe I just need a new tune... Livernois?

 

[AzScorpion]

Mark, you must share the same "heavy right foot syndrome" as me.

Dave, @AzScorpion is driving with a passenger and has to behave. I like to scare the crap out of my passengers.

Those last 2 fill ups were averaging 70-80 mph, actually nothing really phases her anymore lol. But it is more fun driving it tuned but you all know what happened with that fiasco.

 

[Dr_Strangelove]

@AzScorpion your squirrel story had me in stitches. Reminds me of my many trips to Zion NP and their famous squirrel signs "DO NOT! Feed Squirrels, they are dangerous!"

Meanwhile the trails are littered with these dudes "Ehhhh.. *Burp* You can jus' set that down right here sweetheart I wouldn *burp* I wouldn't harm a fly!"

 

[rang19ca]

That squirrel looks like a relative of fluffy

 

[AzScorpion]

One drawback to renting an Airbnb is you don't know the physical address before you rent it, you only see the general area. While this one in MT is nice (it's a full 3 bd/2 bath house all remodeled) it's right by a set of RR tracks! That darn train runs all night long and of course there's a crossing about 100 yards away so each time one comes it has to blow the horn 3-4 times.

Last night was the worst as it seemed to run every 45 minutes so needless to say I got no sleep. We were going to get up early and go over to the east side of Glacier which is a 90 minute drive to the Two Medicine entrance. The other two entrances are over 2 hours away because the Going To The Sun road is still closed and you can't cut through the park yet. So after getting only 3 hours sleep I washed the truck and bought ear plugs instead. lol

I felt like Joe Pesci in the movie My Cousin Vinny. ?

 

[IdahoRanger]

One drawback to renting an Airbnb is you don't know the physical address before you rent it, you only see the general area. While this one in MT is nice (it's a full 3 bd/2 bath house all remodeled) it's right by a set of RR tracks! That darn train runs all night long and of course there's a crossing about 100 yards away so each time one comes it has to blow the horn 3-4 times.

Last night was the worst as it seemed to run every 45 minutes so needless to say I got no sleep. We were going to get up early and go over to the east side of Glacier which is a 90 minute drive to the Two Medicine entrance. The other two entrances are over 2 hours away because the Going To The Sun road is still closed and you can't cut through the park yet. So after getting only 3 hours sleep I washed the truck and bought ear plugs instead. lol

I felt like Joe Pesci in the movie My Cousin Vinny. ?

Bummer, reminds me of this scene.

 

[Trigganometry]

This is with an IPhone 7+ right after I got it. One of those images that it’s hard to believe a phone that old could grab this

 

[Radioman]

One drawback to renting an Airbnb is you don't know the physical address before you rent it, you only see the general area. While this one in MT is nice (it's a full 3 bd/2 bath house all remodeled) it's right by a set of RR tracks! That darn train runs all night long and of course there's a crossing about 100 yards away so each time one comes it has to blow the horn 3-4 times.

Last night was the worst as it seemed to run every 45 minutes so needless to say I got no sleep. We were going to get up early and go over to the east side of Glacier which is a 90 minute drive to the Two Medicine entrance. The other two entrances are over 2 hours away because the Going To The Sun road is still closed and you can't cut through the park yet. So after getting only 3 hours sleep I washed the truck and bought ear plugs instead. lol

I felt like Joe Pesci in the movie My Cousin Vinny. ?

I can relate Dave. I have lived in Roseville, CA since 1973. It has the largest rail yard on the West Coast. When I bought my first home in Roseville, I asked the existing people in the house if the rail yard noise bothered them. They said it didn't. After I bought the house and moved in, wow the noise was awful. But, after a short while, if I had been asked if the rail yard bothered me, I would have answer no. I guess it is what you get use to.

Now I am in my second house in Roseville, I am further away but I can still hear the train yard at night if I have the windows open.

Some might ask why live in a railroad town and I say that Roseville is a great town with excellent schools, very intelligent growth, and fairly low crime.

 

[AzScorpion]

I can relate Dave. I have lived in Roseville, CA since 1973. It has the largest rail yard on the West Coast. When I bought my first home in Roseville, I asked the existing people in the house if the rail yard noise bothered them. They said it didn't. After I bought the house and moved in, wow the noise was awful. But, after a short while, if I had been asked if the rail yard bothered me, I would have answer no. I guess it is what you get use to.

Now I am in my second house in Roseville, I am further away but I can still hear the train yard at night if I have the windows open.

Some might ask why live in a railroad town and I say that Roseville is a great town with excellent schools, very intelligent growth, and fairly low crime.

Yes, you're right you do get use to noise after a while. I rented a house back in the 90's with an old gf and it was close to a train. Not as close as the one here but close enough to hear it and bother me. But after a few months I got use to it and it never kept me up again.

I'm a very light sleeper to start so that doesn't help much. The first couple nights here weren't as bad because the first night I was tired from driving and the second from hiking all day. Plus my 2 houses I built back in MA were both in the woods (country setting) and there was little to no noise out there. Even my house in Goodyear is relatively quiet except for the "ricers" tearing through the neighborhood once in a while. lol

 

[Chris M]

One drawback to renting an Airbnb is you don't know the physical address before you rent it, you only see the general area. While this one in MT is nice (it's a full 3 bd/2 bath house all remodeled) it's right by a set of RR tracks! That darn train runs all night long and of course there's a crossing about 100 yards away so each time one comes it has to blow the horn 3-4 times.

Last night was the worst as it seemed to run every 45 minutes so needless to say I got no sleep. We were going to get up early and go over to the east side of Glacier which is a 90 minute drive to the Two Medicine entrance. The other two entrances are over 2 hours away because the Going To The Sun road is still closed and you can't cut through the park yet. So after getting only 3 hours sleep I washed the truck and bought ear plugs instead. lol

I felt like Joe Pesci in the movie My Cousin Vinny. ?

That's the kind of thing you'd make some kind of formal complaint about, isn't it? Shouldn't the owner have to disclose such a thing?

 

[Bob902]

Be careful out there Dave

 

[AzScorpion]

That's the kind of thing you'd make some kind of formal complaint about, isn't it? Shouldn't the owner have to disclose such a thing?

In the description it does say "there's a train nearby" so I took that as down the road, not in the front yard. lol At least the house doesn't shake. ? It would be nice if you could see the address before paying for it because then you'd see the tracks and how close it is. But I understand why they do this for the owners privacy/security.

I guess I could but they've been great about everything else (answering questions and giving us restaurants to go to) so it's not something I want to fuss about. I did read all the reviews and no one ever mentioned anything about it so maybe others are just use to noise more than I am.

 

[AzScorpion]

Be careful out there Dave

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That's why I wasn't nervous when we saw the bear at Grand Tetons. There were about 20 of us who gathered around to see the moose and no way the bear would pick the skinny Polack over all the others.

 

[Big Blue]

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That's why I wasn't nervous when we saw the bear at Grand Tetons. There were about 20 of us who gathered around to see the moose and no way the bear would pick the skinny Polack over all the others.

Just remember you only need to be faster than the slowest person in the group .

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