It's officially booked!!!!

[Red Eye Racer]

Hey guy's

It's officially booked,.... my first vacation as a working adult 8) A particular thank-you goes to milefile for giving me some helpful hints on where to "see some sites". Thanx Eric 👍

Here's the schedule:

Saturday August 30:
-Fly out of Grand Rapids @ 7:45 am
-Arrive in Las Vegas @ 10:40 am
-Pick up rental car and drive 4 hours East to Hotel in Flagstaff, AZ

Sunday August 31:
-Drive South to Sedona or East to Petrified National Forest

Monday Sept. 1 (Labor Day):
-Drive South to Sedona or East to Petrified National Forest

Tuesday Sept. 2:
-Drive to Vegas to stay at Imperial Palace,... probably stop off at Grand Canyon, Hover Dam, and Zion on the way.

Wednesday Sept. 3:
-Vegas,.... goto Grand Canyon, Hover Dam, and Zion if missed on the way up to Vegas

Thursday Sept. 4:
-Vegas

Friday Sept. 5:
-Vegas

Saturday Sept. 6:
-Leave Vegas early, approx 7-8am,....
-Arrive at Jim's (fellow GT3 racer from origin site) house at about NOON....

Sunday Sept. 7th:
-Jim's house
-Hook up with 2 more racers from origin site,.. plan on hittin up the local go-kart track.

Monday Sept. 8th:
-Leave Jim's
-Fly out home from Los Angeles at NOON....
-Arrive in Grand Rapids at 8:30pm

 

[Zero]

Hey man, while you are in Vegas you should check out the Luxor, there are many fun activities that occur in there, also their game room is 2 floors, I loved it when I was there. You should also goto the New York New York and ride the Manhatten Express rollercoaster, its great. I have more to say about Vegas but my time is very limited right now due to my school starting in a week and I have way too much summer homework to do.


Have fun on your vacation

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Thanx Zero,.. and yeah,.. we plan on hitting the NYNY coaster,... and thanx for the tip on the Luxor 👍.... that's the one modeled after the Giza Pyramid, correct?

 

[Zero]

Yeah pretty much. The Sante Fe hotel, its not on the strip but its great it has a 60 lane bowling alley, a full sized ice rink and a bunch of other good stuff in it, I cant remember everything I havent been to Vegas in a loooooooooong time, about 3-5 years

 

[w00tness]

Im going to vegas on the 19th

Staying at the flamingo.

RYR, your gonna have a great time, ive been there about 5 times and it gets better each time.

PSS.. go to the saharah to the driving simulator, pretty fun there

 

[Duke]

Hey, have a great time, Brian. It's odd how it suddenly strikes you, "Hey, I can take a trip and see stuff!"

 

[Zero]

Originally posted by Red Eye Racer

Saturday Sept. 6:
-Leave Vegas early, approx 7-8am,....
-Arrive at Jim's (fellow GT3 racer from origin site) house at about NOON....

Sunday Sept. 7th:
-Jim's house
-Hook up with 2 more racers from origin site,.. plan on hittin up the local go-kart track.

Jim who.....? Explain this to me urgently.

 

[w00tness]

Hook up with 2 more racers from origin site,.. plan on hittin up the local go-kart track.

Would that be X-Plex? Thats a nice track.

 

[km]

Originally posted by Red Eye Racer
Hey guy's

It's officially booked,.... my first vacation as a working adult 8) A particular thank-you goes to milefile for giving me some helpful hints on where to "see some sites". Thanx Eric 👍

Here's the schedule:

Saturday August 30:
-Fly out of Grand Rapids @ 7:45 am
-Arrive in Las Vegas @ 10:40 am
-Pick up rental car and drive 4 hours East to Hotel in Flagstaff, AZ

Sunday August 31:
-Drive South to Sedona or East to Petrified National Forest

Monday Sept. 1 (Labor Day):
-Drive South to Sedona or East to Petrified National Forest

Tuesday Sept. 2:
-Drive to Vegas to stay at Imperial Palace,... probably stop off at Grand Canyon, :Hover Dam , and Zion on the way.

Wednesday Sept. 3:
-Vegas,.... goto Grand Canyon, :Hover Dam , and Zion if missed on the way up to Vegas

Thursday Sept. 4:
-Vegas

Friday Sept. 5:
-Vegas

Saturday Sept. 6:
-Leave Vegas early, approx 7-8am,....
-Arrive at Jim's (fellow GT3 racer from origin site) house at about NOON....

Sunday Sept. 7th:
-Jim's house
-Hook up with 2 more racers from origin site,.. plan on hittin up the local go-kart track.

Monday Sept. 8th:
-Leave Jim's
-Fly out home from Los Angeles at NOON....
-Arrive in Grand Rapids at 8:30pm

wow a hover dam i would love to see how one of those work:lol

 

[Max Powers]

You're not really one to point out spelling errors.

 

[space]

If you can, drive out to Meteor Crater, Red Eye. It might just be a big hole in the ground, but it's a badass hole in the ground.

Plus you can hear a story about someone who flew into the crater, but couldn't fly out, heh.

 

[w00tness]

Originally posted by space
If you can, drive out to Meteor Crater, Red Eye. It might just be a big hole in the ground, but it's a badass hole in the ground.

Plus you can hear a story about someone who flew into the crater, but couldn't fly out, heh.

a badass hole eh?

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Thanx for all that info guy's

If the sale of my motorcycle goes through as sceduled tomorrow, we'll be taking THIS little ride Hopefully we'll see the crator space was refering too

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Originally posted by km
wow a hover dam i would love to see how one of those work:lol

see location

 

[km]

Originally posted by Red Eye Racer
see location

i did see ware it was but there is no hover dam there but there is a hoover dam

 

[Duke]

Originally posted by km
i did see ware it was but there is no hover dam there but there is a hoover dam

How is it possible this person is still walking the earth?

 

[hanker]

Sounds like a Sweet trip, are you going with anyone??? Remember not to p blow all your money in one casino

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Damn (no pun intended), I hate to do this,... but...

Originally posted by km
i did see ware it was, but there is no hover dam there. but there is a hoover dam

Would you prefer I called it Boulder Dam?

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Originally posted by hanker
Sounds like a Sweet trip, are you going with anyone??? Remember not to p blow all your money in one casino

Yeah,.. takin the GF along for the ride Although, I doubt we'll even gamble. I might throw $100 on black and see what happens,... ya never know

 

[Pako]

Sounds like a great trip Red Eye Racer! Can't say that I've booked a trip like that before. Sure I've taken the miss' along for a drive to the West Coast for some good ocean air, but that was the extent of it.

Hope all goes well. So how much did you budget ($$$) for the trip? If your uncomfortable in posting it, that's cool to, I was just curious is all.

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Originally posted by Pako
Sounds like a great trip Red Eye Racer! Can't say that I've booked a trip like that before. Sure I've taken the miss' along for a drive to the West Coast for some good ocean air, but that was the extent of it.

Hope all goes well. So how much did you budget ($$$) for the trip? If your uncomfortable in posting it, that's cool to, I was just curious is all.

Thanx man,....

As far as finances go,... the initial cost is $1300 and change for All air travel, car rental, hotel accomidations. I figure we'll probably, get about 20 miles a gallon in the car, and will travel a minimum of 1000 total miles, so, a pesemistic guess of $200 for fuel should be sufficient.

I'm betting on $50 a day(x9) for food and $100(x9) a day on supplies and recreation (high esimate). Which brings the total so far to $2850,.... add on $540 for the helicopter trip and we get a grand total of $3390. Though I'd be suprised if the entire trip costs' me over $3000.

Does that look like a high/low/acceptable estimate?

 

[Red Eye Racer]

I'm hookin up with 3 other GT3 racers on Saturday, Sept. 6 at this place in Southern California

If anyone lives in the area and wants to join up with us for the day,... gimme a shout 👍

 

[DoZeRxXx]

anyone ever been to this place http://www.bigchiefcarts.com/carts/index.htm
25$ for 4 hours unlimited rollercoasters and gokarts

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Just made a reservation to rent a Vette for Wed. Sept. 3. I know I coulda done better but the Vette is the ol' lady's favorite ride in the world ( yeah I know).

Damn-it though,... we're getting the standard convertable,... because is comes in automatic (again, she ruins my fun cuase she cant drive manual). I wanted the Z06 sooooooooooooooooooooooo bad,... they had one but only in a 6-speed and only $50 more too

Oh well,... at least I get to beat on a Vette for a day

 

[Red Eye Racer]

BTW,... I'm takin the plunge on Sept. 4.

Wish me luck

 

[Red Eye Racer]

I know I'm about 2 months late on posting these but hey, better late than never

I'll post more pics of the cars in the museum later tonight.

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This is the spot where Erica and I got engaged

This is the Vette we rented for a day in Las Vegas. Unfortuantely, is has a form of TCS/ASM that couldnt be turned off and kept the REAL fun to a minimum

Front view of the vette 8)

This is a photo taken while we were in a helicopter taking a trip from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon. You may remeber that I later posted about a crash that occured 2 weeks after our trip and the same pilot we had died in that crash.

This is a Delta HF Integrable Rally Car on disply/for sale @ the largest showroom for exotic vehicles for sale in the world. It's on the fifth floor of the hotel we stayed at (Imperial Palace). They were asking $400,000 for this bad dog

This is one of the cars you get to drive at the Skip Barber racing school (Las Vegas Motor Speedway).

View of the Hoover (Boulder) Dam from the helicopter ride.

This is one of the cars you get to drive at the Skip Barber racing school (Las Vegas Motor Speedway).

These were on display at the same museum as the Delta, though, I dont remember the selling prices.

This was taken at NELLIS Air Force Base in Las Vegas. Erica's cousin is stationed there, and he gave us a grand tour of the entire facility. It's virtually a self sustaining city in itself. VERY impressive. This tank was in the first golf war. The crew were sleeping inside when the tank was hit by the 'dud' missle They all survived unharmed.

I'll have more soon

 

[Ev0]

Man, now I really want to go to the Skip Barber racing school Any other cars like the Indy car or the Winston Cup car at Skip Barber? Cool tank btw

 

[Red Eye Racer]

Yeah, there were other ones that I DO have Pic's of.

They looked like S2000's but I dont remember off the top of my head.