I can surely attest that unless one is young and spry like Ron that driving ten hours in an rv in heavy traffic
will leave one wilted. And with a headache. But that's all. Trailer pulled great, and despite it basically dwarfing the truck, that hemi rocked and had zero
problem keeping up with traffic and the 8 speed trans on tow/haul just rowed the tunes out.
A good thing the truck takes regular gas, which I paid 1.76 or thereabout several times today, though I filled up at least three times.
Slurp. 9mpg. And I was doing all of 64-65 max in the right lane in a 70mph zone. Frankly there was so much traffic no one was getting anywhere any faster than I was as several times I had to come off cruise and slow down as the traffic just clogged up.
I bet I could have got 11mpg if I hadn't used cruise. Come hill or dale the trans downshifted and upshifted smoothly
and since I never saw over 2900 rpm on cruise, I just let it do its thing.
Like my own little symphony of baritones...that engine has chops.
the trailer bed is hard as a rock, shortly to get some kind of pillow top. And all night long heavy trucks went by about 50 feet away. Let's say the ambience was lacking but otherwise it all went well. Everything worked.
I feel like I've been on a long boat ride and things are still vibrating...
I bet if Eric added up two or more of his car engine horsepowers it wouldn't total 395. Maybe all of them and the Iseki thrown in too...
of course if he could buy gasoline for 1.76 a gallon, and diesel for 1.89, he might be in the garage turning up the wick on his engines.
time for a hot shower and as i was taught as a child, then one foot on a banana peel and the other foot in dreamland.
