Escape Rally, 5/27-5/29, 2022 At Nk-Mip CG in Osoyoos, BC

[Jim Bennett]

Originally Posted by gabeck

We have usually done it in one day ...but will maybe stop over in Revy..... getting old...getting slower...

We have stayed for free at the ski hill parking lot. Toilets available in the locker room. When we went in early October there were two other RVs, though I bet lots more in the summer.

[cpaharley2008]

We are looking at possibly 5x 10 hour days unhitched on the road out to Chilliwack/Osoyoos and then 6 towing days on the return. Approximately 5800 miles total.
On edit, 9350 kilometers total.....

[Jim Bennett]

Under, 1,500 kilometres both ways here.

[diannelgraham]

Originally Posted by Jim Bennett

Under, 1,500 kilometres both ways here.

800 kilometers both ways for me

[Bayner]

I'm so close it's not worth towing the trailer.

[Centex]

~2200 miles / 3500 km for me by the most direct route (one-way). I'm looking forward to a relaxed meandering trip with other sights and fun along the way

[Jim Bennett]

Originally Posted by Centex

~2200 miles / 3500 km for me by the most direct route (one-way). I'm looking forward to a relaxed meandering trip with other sights and fun along the way

That's the way to do it. We usually make it an easy two day trip out there, then they had a bunch more days on the way home. Lots of stuff to see in BC.

[cpaharley2008]

We have to stop at Chilliwack first to get our new Escape and then meander over to Osoyoos. It is a beautiful drive.....

[Bayner]

Our BC highways took a serious beating in the past year both from nature and increased traffic on some routes due to closures on others. They are a bit rougher than usual. That might get remedied before May, but I think it's fair to give warning that you may find yourselves travelling a little slower than usual up here this summer.

[cpaharley2008]

Found an early rally photo...

[gabeck]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

Found an early rally photo...

Oh gosh .... thinking we might just prefer the Escape rally......

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

Found an early rally photo...

Nothing like a loaded shotgun and alcohol.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’ve been to both South Georgia and out on the Palouse in Idaho.
Cars were interesting
I had a Pontiac like the one in the first row and my brother had a lead sled like the one next to it.
Iowa Dave

[Centex]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

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Cars were interesting
I had a Pontiac like the one in the first row and my brother had a lead sled like the one next to it.
Iowa Dave

Next to that, the (? '54) Studebaker wagon is the one that caught my eye.

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by Centex

Next to that, the (? '54) Studebaker wagon is the one that caught my eye.

Yes the studebaker caught my eye too. In that next row , is that a Kaiser or like a HenryJ? I never learned them as there weren’t that many around. We were GM people back them so I’m ok on those, especially Buicks. “When better cars are built, Buick will build them” Valve in Head engine. Dynaflow transmission. I want a big long Buick with that Dynaflow drive, I want all the chicks to know I’m the baddest cat alive. And Rocket 88 “Oldsmobile”. Big Joe Turner too. This Buick video just about makes me cry.
Iowa Dave
https://www.google.com/search?q=big+...FhVVlnNyo,st:0

[Centex]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

... In that next row, is that a Kaiser or like a HenryJ?
Iowa Dave

Could be, marques too esoteric for me, too (though I'm sure I saw them in my Dad's Popular Science magazines in those days; I'm told I learned to read very young, sitting in Dad's lap as he read Gus Wilson's Model Garage stories to me each month, and then me wearing out those magazines more than he did).

[Ron in BC]

Originally Posted by Centex

I saw them in my Dad's Popular Science magazines in those days;

as he read Gus Wilson's Model Garage stories to me each month, and then me wearing out those magazines more than he did).

Now there's a blast from the past.

Ron

[cpaharley2008]

I could not decide which one I liked best, Popular Mechanics or Popular Science monthlies....oh, do not forget my mom's Readers Digest with the jokes.....Humor in Uniform!!

[Iowa Dave]

My mom would save up and buy my youngest brother a subscription to popular mechanics since he was the one who was “mechanically inclined”. My best friends family got popular science so we would trade them back and forth. I got my own magazines by trapping pocket gophers for the 10 cent bounty and other mammals for the fur.

My dad looked in on an old Bohemie guy about every day. He lived alone. A couple pretty college girls stopped by his home and when they left he had subscribed to 6 magazines for three years. Many times we would go down to his home after we got off work. I should have been doing homework but I would patiently set in a straight backed oak chair and read those sporting magazines cover to cover. Most of the nights we’d go home and my mom would cook our dinner well after my brothers had eaten theirs. Then I’d try to do my homework at 10 o’clock at night. But I can identify about every piece of now antique sporting goods to this day.

Popular mechanics was a pretty good publication. It taught my brother and I to “think” through a problem and then tackle it. Both my brother and my father in law regularly did winter overhauls of automotive components on the kitchen table in the dead of winter. I cast lead sinkers from wheel weights on the “canning stove” in the basement. Probably wouldn’t fly today.
Iowa Dave

[cpaharley2008]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

My mom would save up and buy my youngest brother a subscription to popular mechanics since he was the one who was “mechanically inclined”. My best friends family got popular science so we would trade them back and forth. I got my own magazines by trapping pocket gophers for the 10 cent bounty and other mammals for the fur.

My dad looked in on an old Bohemie guy about every day. He lived alone. A couple pretty college girls stopped by his home and when they left he had subscribed to 6 magazines for three years. Many times we would go down to his home after we got off work. I should have been doing homework but I would patiently set in a straight backed oak chair and read those sporting magazines cover to cover. Most of the nights we’d go home and my mom would cook our dinner well after my brothers had eaten theirs. Then I’d try to do my homework at 10 o’clock at night. But I can identify about every piece of now antique sporting goods to this day.

Popular mechanics was a pretty good publication. It taught my brother and I to “think” through a problem and then tackle it. Both my brother and my father in law regularly did winter overhauls of automotive components on the kitchen table in the dead of winter. I cast lead sinkers from wheel weights on the “canning stove” in the basement. Probably wouldn’t fly today.
Iowa Dave

Is that anything like the "shot" towers we have in Baltimore where liquid shot was dropped and upon hitting the water would form round shape needed to be used as ammo?

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by cpaharley2008

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Is that anything like the "shot" towers we have in Baltimore where liquid shot was dropped and upon hitting the water would form round shape needed to be used as ammo?

Molten lead, poured into machined molds is a popular pastime in the Midwest in the winter. A factory in Denver iowa makes the Do-it line of molds. I’m casting mostly jig heads these days. I have also cast a lot of conical projectiles for muzzle loading rifles. Very soft lead for those with no impurities.
For three summers after high school I worked in a grey iron foundry casting rock crusher components and crane counterweights, weighing up to 14,000 pounds. Pouring molten iron into a sand mold with the vat of molten iron suspended by a rolling overhead crane was hot work It took three quarts of cold beer to rehydrate the body at the end of the shift. There is a shot tower in Dubuque Iowa.
Iowa Dave