Me? Yeah kinda. My plan is to leave on the 21st, hitchhike to the Ouachita National Forest, do the Eagle Rock Loop hike, hitchhike back to DFW by the 26th (morning), and fly to Phoenix where I’ll do a road trip until nov 6th.
If I spend the 21st and 25th hitchhiking that leaves me with 3 full days to do the 48km-12h walk. Which sounds reasonable.
It seems to me that my best bet is to hitchhike to Athens. Which is nice because Athens is where I grew up (the og one). And right in the middle is Paris
Basically, you’re passing through my backyard.
Fri/Sat/Sun I’ve got stuff going on. Mostly on Saturday. After that, if hitching is slow, and you don’t mind riding in the jankiest Ford Ranger you’ve ever seen, hit me up.
Not a problem. The jankiest ranger of all time won’t go that fast.
Seriously, this thing was rescued just before the junkyard. It had 4 flat tires, a completly busted windshield, some “creative” rewiring by the previous owner, a fragged flywheel gear, nothing but steel springs to sit on, no working gauges (various reasons), and fist sized holes in the block and radiator.
I’ve fixed some of that. The block only got JB weld. Been driving it for 3-4 years now.
It’s really more of an extended crack. It runs from the pan rail, almost to the deck surface, then follows the upper deck surface for about 3 inches, and back down to the pan rail.
I drilled the crack ends, then drilled multiple places along the crack, tapped the holes and tightened bolts to hold the sides together, and then SMOOSHed a heaping handful of JB weld over it all.
3 years ago. I drive it every day. I’ve made multiple trips back to Kansas, about a 9 hour drive one way.
I replaced it at the beginning of this summer. The hole was a busted up cracked section so you could fill it up with coolant, but as soon as you drove it, it would push half of it out. Didn’t realize that at first and thought it was the JB leaking.
But it ran fine like that for years. It would overheat, just barely maybe almosty right at the boiling point if the outside temp was over 90 with AC or over 100 without.
Rangers are fricking awesome. My next one will be bought from texas and have license plate that says “Walker”.
AND everything I can find on the flipper says you can’t hand carry it??? Maybe if it was in a case, no batteries, and in checked luggage?
