Road Trip report (Minneapolis To Folsom)

The road trip from Minneapolis to Folsom was simply great. We touched 8 states in 3 days covering 700 miles a day. The trip was initially planned for 4 days, but we managed to finish it in 3 days, thanks to the "high speeds" allowed by some states and the total lack of policemen in colorado. People were driving crazy in the rockies. Generally when its hilly, we tend to slow down. This was not the case in colorado. People were zipping past us and since we dint want anyone hit us from behind, we had to keep up with their pace. Its often said that people drive crazy in california. That is true. Minivans and SUV's which are generally considered "unstable" at high speeds were zipping past us. We were travelling in a Ford Mustang - a sports car. We were supposed to go fast!!. The average speed in california highways is 80-85 miles per hour. No idea why there are signs on the highway informing the drivers that the speed in 70 Miles per hour. I guess the drivers are partially blind when it comes to reading signs. And what about truckers?? I believe the truck drivers think their Truck is a "little" bigger than a car and hence they can compete with the cars and SUV's on the road when it comes to speeding.

On the whole it was a fun trip. I would definitely like to make many such trips across the rockies in colorado, the canyons of Utah and the vast expanse of "nothingness" of Nevada.

One more week

One more week for my road trip to california. We are planning a 4 day 3 night trip, going past, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California with night halts at Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada. There are some beautiful photos of Rockies along I-70 which makes me all the more excited about the trip. Some of the photos can be seen at

http://protophoto.com/subject.html?subject_id=314

That said, There is one problem. Looks like cingular has very bad coverage at some part of the route. I think I might have to get a verizon phone before I leave for the trip. Was thinking of switching over to verizon for sometime now, but dint think I will switch over for this reason.

Revisiting Quickstar

On Sept 2004, I had written a post on quickstar. After about a month I saw lots of comments for that blog. People have written down their experience with Quickstar. Its worth a read. The reason for my page getting so many hits is because if you search for "quickstar" in google, this blog is the third link. The same case with another of my blog, "Reliance India call". Checkout these two blogs at

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/archives/koda0009/blogthoughts/2004_09.html