http://www.timbotrip.com 48 States in an 84 Scirocco Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:33:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/28/the-rest-of-the-h2o-pictures/ [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/28/h2o-pictures-from-the-show/ http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/27/dinner-2/ [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/27/pictures-from-saturday-before-h2oi/ [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/27/washing-the-cars/ [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/26/friday-night-the-crabby-dinner-run/ [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/26/convoy-pics-2/ [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/26/convoy-pics/ Raul is not going to H2o International. He's holding his registration enevelope which he is giving to G-rocco. http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/26/poor-raul/ Warm ceviche Crabcakes, salad, corn and for dessert? Crème Brûlée [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/24/rauls-dinner/ The last capitol has been done. The 48 State Roadtrip is over!   This weekend, I am driving to the show in Ocean City, Maryland- H2o International where I will show off the hood. This site will stay here, archiving my trip. It will also serve as the blog for all of ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/24/the-trip-is-complete-but-its-not-over/ Here are the pictures from dinner tonight! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/23/dinner-at-its-nutts/ The group showed up!!  We all met at the NJ state capitol - the last one. After our pictures, we went to eat at It's Nutts - a great place on NJ route 29 we have all eaten before. [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/23/trenton-new-jerseys-state-capitol/ We're working on Paul's car, installed a new Catalytic Converter. I am putting the mudflaps that JonnyPhenominon gave me in Maine. Then we saw some cheap gas!! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/23/working-on-cars-gas-prices/ On the porch, we have made a fire in the fireplace. This fire looks sorta like a skull, which is pretty neato! Then we got to thinkin' - S'mores!!! AWESOME!! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/22/smores/ Paul made dinner, it was very good. Southwestern Chicken wings, chicken breasts with BBQ sauce, bacon, mixed cheese, some shells and cheese, and southwest mixed veggies. Dang good! And, Sciroccojim explains his rear strut situation. [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/22/dinner-in-nj/ New Jersey officially has the record for cheapest fuel of the trip!! I'm staying tonight with Paul and Lee (sciroccos4life and sciroccos4lifewife) in NJ. [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/22/new-jersey/ Met up with INTERNETRACECAR from the SomethingAwful forums at the state capitol of Connecticut. [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/21/hartford-connecticut/ Rhode Island is the last of the 48 states that I have never visited before, and the third-to-last capitol of this trip. There was a marathon going on downtown in Providence, so I had to get a little creative, and I think it turned out much better than normal! And as ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/21/rhode-island/ an HDR image is the combination of two images taken at different exposure levels. In this particular case, the people in the scene moved, leaving some rather strange effects. This produces an image that shows the colors of both input images. [caption id="attachment_2725" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="High Dynamic Range Image"][/caption] [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/20/high-dynamic-range-image/ I met up with Eli (sharkytm on SomethingAwful and VWVortex), and we explored the cape here. Then we went and ate at PI Pizza. New England style Pizza, it was quite good! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/20/on-the-cape/ Jonny filled me up with some gas, and I left Maine. I drove down I-95, so I was in New Hampshire for like 15 minutes! :) Then Boston. This was the one I was worried about, and I was right to - Saturday in a city designed YEARS before cars? Yeah. But ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/20/2701/ I met up with Jon (JonnyPhenomenon on VWVortex) to take photos of the Maine State Capitol. Now we're eating breakfast in Lewiston, ME. [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/20/maine-state-capitol/ Got here to John's place (crazyaboutrocs on VWVortex) in Bucksport, ME. He's getting the Lobster ready! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/19/lobster-in-maine/ [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/19/entering-maine/ Wow! These little states are easy!! :) [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/19/new-hampshire-state-capitol/ This morning, I left New York for Vermont. The trees are just starting to change! Mtl-Marc met me at the capitol and signed my hood. Thanks, Marc!! On to New Hampshire, and Maine! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/19/capitol-of-vermont/ [caption id="attachment_2621" align="aligncenter" width="375" caption="New York State Capitol"][/caption] Visited Albany, New York today. Took photos of the downtown area. Then I drove to Amsterdam, NY - and Julie took me to the Windmill Diner for dinner. [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/18/new-york-state-capitol/ This morning, I bid Raul goodbye. Raul is the executive chef at a restaurant called Swanky Bubbles, which has a location in Center City Philadelphia, and also a location in Cherry Hill, NJ.  Raul's car was broken when I left, it is still broken, hence the "fix me" I drove through ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/18/driving-to-new-yorks-state-capitol/ It just happened that my grandpa was going up to New York to see the Queen Elizabeth 2 leave New York. This is the second-to-last time that it will be here before it retires to Dubai, the last time is in October, so the light will be gone on departure, ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/17/trip-to-new-york/ Muahahahahahaahahahaahah!! I'm back in my state!! (er, Commonwealth!!!) Pennsylvania welcomes me. Well, thanks! :D  McConnellsburg!! (My last name is McConnell) [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/15/pennsylvania-welcomes-me/ Left Daun's devastated area this morning. It really looked like a Hurricane hit. The highest recorded windspeed was actually at Clinton County Airport - the airport next to which we have the "Cincy" Scirocco get-together each year. The speed was 77mph!! Anyway, I drove to West Virginia, and saw the capitol. ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/15/west-virginia/ Drove to Dayton, OH. So far, so good. The streets in Daun's neighborhood were trashed. There's trees down, power lines down, and general destruction. There's also a LOT of sawdust in various places, this is half cleaned up. This is Daun's partner Brad's Grumman airplane. The nose gear was being repaired, so ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/14/airplane-destruction-in-hurricane-ohio/ Crazy windstorm in Ohio!! It's a hurricane!! 60-70mph winds!! STUFF HIT ME!  Cones, trashcans, signs, cornhusks. But I got the Capitol!! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/14/windstorm/ [caption id="attachment_2490" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Welcome to Ohio"][/caption] Welcome to Ohio AGAIN!!! This is the FOURTH time I've been to Ohio this year. That does not include a fifth time that I flew over it. :) http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/14/entering-ohio/ [caption id="attachment_2487" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Bra on Tony's Scirocco"][/caption] Paul@VWVotex gave me a bra in Arizona, but I couldn't use it because I don't have the correct bumper. But Tony does!!! It's rather nice, I think!! http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/14/a-bra-for-tony/ [caption id="attachment_2484" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Tony's Garage"][/caption] Tony invited all the area VW people out to his garage.... and ALL of them came!!!  It was rainy, but we made the best of it. It was great to meet all of you!   I was too tired to last past 10:30pm, but the fun ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/14/michigan-gtg-in-tonys-garage/ I'm here with Tony! http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/13/arrived-in-ann-arbor-mi/ I drove echassin's Honda Spree around the block one more time, it was fun! It's raining. A lot. The highway was flooded. Westbound was closed, our side had to go around the flood. BAD!! Anyway, I'm at the Capitol now, took my picture, and I'm on my way to Tony (Neptuno on ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/13/trip-to-the-capitol-of-michigan/ We visited Chris (Fein1 on VWVortex) - he has a Panama Brown 77 rabbit with a 16v. It's a very cool car. The wheels are ATS Classics, the tires are Sumitomo HTR200s, the same tires that I use (in a very different size though) [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/13/its-not-orange-it-is-brown/ We drove downtown to get some pictures of the skyline of Chicago. But the buildings were hiding in the clouds! But this spot would make for a GREAT car picture on a sunny day! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/13/chicago-and-the-adler-planetarium/ The least expensive fuel of the entire trip was near Blaine, MN - it was 3.42 per gallon for regular. Konomi bought me that tank of fuel! Thanks! The most expensive fuel of the entire trip had been the 4.12 I paid at the station near my house in Philadelphia, but ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/13/the-most-expensive-and-cheapest-gas-one-tank-after-the-other/ Here's an insane Scirocco racecar. Craig's Scirocco is a 2.0L 16v bottom with an 8v top and a large cam. Muahaahaha! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/12/shrttrackrs-insane-race-rocco/ We started putting back together Eric's spare transmission for fun. Eric happens to have a BOSCH oven! Then we worked on Eric's new FREE Honda Spree!  It's from 1986, has 1500 miles, and needed the carb to be cleaned up a bit.  By nightfall, we were buzzing about the neighborhood! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/11/transmission-and-spreeeeee/ Eric has 3 VWs with the ATS Cup wheels on them. From the $400 Cabriolet, to the perfect GTI, to the mythical Scirocco that has been amazingly rolled out on to the driveway for my honor! :) [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/11/the-ats-cup-convention/ Met up with meanvw to have lunch. Had THE CHEEF - it was HUGE.  Then we went to the Jelly Belly warehouse. There was a "factory tour" - but it was really just riding around in the warehouse looking at TVs. But you can buy a bag full of ONLY ... http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/11/wisconsin-and-jelly-beans/ [caption id="attachment_2395" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison"][/caption] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/10/capitol-of-wisconsin/ I also found that I was across the street from The German Haus. Muahhaah! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/10/entering-wisconsin/ Took some night pictures! Neato. [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/09/tonight-pictures/ We went down to the Mall of America - a HUGE mall - four floors, and it has an amusement park inside! [gallery] http://www.timbotrip.com/2008/09/08/mall-of-america/