> > > He stopped in Connecticut? Call me nutty, and we all know I don't know my geography, but Connecticut? At this rate, he'll be lucky to get there by autumn.
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> > That's what I was thinking, but then I thought about it some more and it made more sense. He probably didn't leave until Wednesday afternoon, needing to be at home when the moving people were working. Depending on where he stopped in Connecticut, it would have been a 4-6 hour trip. So it's not an ambitious trip, but he probably would have been traveling well after dark, and Dave isn't very comfortable driving after dark.
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> > So we'll see how it goes. The progress he makes today, him having a full day to travel, will be more telling than yesterday's.
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> Good point. Agreed. Safe is really all we're after here, anyway.

You did say "new car" didn't you?
The proper way to drive a new car is not to fast.
You have to break them in gently. By the time he gets to Ohio, he'll be covering three or four hundred miles a day. Trust me.
How"had a new car once"ard