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Old 09-21-2007, 11:58 AM
 
Location: Phoenix metro
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Bring some good tunes, that stretch of highway is horrendously long and boring, a vast nothingness.
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Old 09-21-2007, 06:53 PM
 
Location: Kingman - Anaconda
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I tried very hard not to make any off the wall comments as to the new layout for I-40. But If only I could give you my orange hard hat and reflective vest you would fit right in.

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I'm the one who wasn't paying attention. Smack me with a orange cone.
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Old 09-21-2007, 07:07 PM
 
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We made the drive in June/July from Vegas to Greer, AZ. 40 was kinda boring. Especially if you had one Eagles CD and you thought you had a Stevie Ray Vaughan CD to, but it was really a DVD and wouldn't play in the CD player.....So you just built up your expectations of Winslow after hearing "The Song" about 40 times between the Hoover Dam and the corner.

I wish we would have had time to make a few 20-30 minutes trips off of 40 to check out some of the stuff we saw on the historical markers on the way. But it's probably a good thing we didn't. I thought MI was boring driving, but 40 was really boring. The drive got interesting when we got to Mogollon Rim country around Payson though. But before that?? Boring....And hot. Did I mention it was hot?

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Old 09-22-2007, 12:18 PM
 
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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I tried very hard not to make any off the wall comments as to the new layout for I-40. But If only I could give you my orange hard hat and reflective vest you would fit right in.
Rambrush,
Lol, I deserve it.
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Old 09-22-2007, 12:21 PM
 
Location: Southern Arizona
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We made the drive in June/July from Vegas to Greer, AZ. 40 was kinda boring. Especially if you had one Eagles CD and you thought you had a Stevie Ray Vaughan CD to, but it was really a DVD and wouldn't play in the CD player.....So you just built up your expectations of Winslow after hearing "The Song" about 40 times between the Hoover Dam and the corner.
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LOL @ and the . . .

Have you considered either SIRIUS or XM RADIO?
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Old 09-22-2007, 02:37 PM
 
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Have you considered either SIRIUS or XM RADIO?
I thought about it, but I'd rather stick to CD's...if I can remember to bring them. Can you take XM radio with you into a rental car? Is it "portable"?
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Old 09-22-2007, 02:52 PM
 
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I thought about it, but I'd rather stick to CD's...if I can remember to bring them. Can you take XM radio with you into a rental car? Is it "portable"?
Sure they make portable units.

The best solution I've found to bringing your own music is to own an MP3 player such as an Ipod. Then download every piece of music you own to it. I have a 60 GB Ipod with hundreds of CDs on it and it's only 1/3 full. I can listen to it on my 2 hour drive to the airport, listen to it on the plane, then in the rental car when I get to my destination. Think about that -- every piece of music you own, with you at all times. Of course that requires that you get one of the bigger hard-drive based units, but even those are still tiny. 1/2" thick, fit in your palm. And they make every kind of car/home/motorcyle/earbud attachments that you can possibly imagine.

When I buy a CD, it gets downloaded into my Ipod database on my PC, then synchronized to our Ipods. The CD then gets put in a box, never to be seen again. It's a wonderful world.
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Old 09-22-2007, 03:44 PM
 
Location: FINALLY living in AZ and LOVING it!!!
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You might want to think about getting off at Seligman and taking Route 66 to Kingman. Seligman is sort of surreal. The drive is less boring than I-40 and you can pretty much drive as fast as you want! There are a few Route 66 nostalgia sites along the way too.
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Old 09-22-2007, 03:47 PM
 
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Sirrius or satelite radio is the best for any drive. There's the assortment of music and talk shows, comedy, current events, etc. You get the whole spectrum with satelite and it works everywhere! I'm sold because I'm always on the road and want to be informed at all times. You get CNN, CNBC, all the ESPN channels, comedy channels, talk personalities, all niches of music. If you get bored from this type of radio, you have no personality. There is ALWAYS something on. Of course it takes about a $600 investment and you can have a lifetime membership with purchase of unit, otherwise you have to justify spending $12/month. Not for everyone.
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Old 09-22-2007, 10:39 PM
 
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Hmm, sounds like an Ipod is for me. I hate listening to what passes for regular radio these days. Radio as we know it is going to die. I'm listening to the same liberal snotty DJ that I was listening to 30 years ago, only I've grown up and am more conservative now and he still sounds the same! What's worse is he's very conservative compared to his sidekick and former weather and traffic girl!
I can't believe I used to agree with this guy. Now I laugh my a$$ off at the guy who my FATHER used to listen to 30 years ago. I was too young and stupid to know what was funny back then. Radio is doomed.
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