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A 3,558 mile road trip in Lightweight Bucket Seats and the Tail of The Dragon

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Old 06-14-2018, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ocgarza
My wife was the daughter of a full-time Indiana preacher/ part-time farmer. She's very practical, hates shopping, loves concerts, Tex-Mex food and strong red wines. She packs light because that's the way we travel even in the SUV I love her to death! Coincidentally, it is our 30th wedding anniversary today
I visited my cousin in CA three years ago in a rent car - big mistake. Should have had a real car to do HWY 1 from Sonoma northward. I will next time
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My wife took some video of the drive to Story, Indiana with my cell phone and using IMovie in the phone, I made a three-minute video of some of the prettier, twistier sections. Editing controls with IMovie are pretty limited so pardon the cuts.

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And here's a short video of some driving footage from the Tail of the Dragon.

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Originally Posted by tomc_mets
Happy anniversary!
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Thanks Tom. Found a real keeper.
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Originally Posted by Petza914
Maybe you can put it on YouTube and link to it here.

Nice trip - Nice story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Done. The short videos from my phone on the drives to Story, IN and the Tail of the Dragon were posted above.
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Thanks for posting the story! What a journey!
Love hearing how other RLers enjoy their cars.
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nice post!!
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Great post, sounds like an awesome trip. I have the same seats and tires on my 997.2 GTS and I daily the car. They are amazingly comfortable seats. I sat in a 991 GT3 with the 918 LWB and I couldn't wait to get out of that car.
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Originally Posted by Amiroo39
Great post, sounds like an awesome trip. I have the same seats and tires on my 997.2 GTS and I daily the car. They are amazingly comfortable seats. I sat in a 991 GT3 with the 918 LWB and I couldn't wait to get out of that car.
Yeah, you don't realize how good those seats are until you drive another Pcar that doesn't have them



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