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Tuesday, November 29 - 5:43pm

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It just occurred to me with SoloHQ closing, I better do this now...

...I'll be driving the hardy Toyota across country West to East next year (and back a while later), so if anyone wants to get together and have dinner if I'm passing through your city, email me now [solo mail] so I'll have your email or phone [or philcoates at att dot net.]

I don't have the dates and I don't know what route I'll be taking, and I'll probably see the sights along the way [I love to drive across America!!} but it is *at least* a couple months away...and I'll be driving from California and visiting New York City and Florida.

Phil

[A place to sleep overnight is not vital. I can afford motels out of the hundred thousand Lindsay pays me annually for posting regularly on Solo.]

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Tuesday, November 29 - 7:15pm

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Hi Phil:

I would really enjoy getting together for drinks or dinner if you are going to be passing through Philadelphia. In fact, I would so enjoy it that I would consider meeting up with you in NYC if you are bypassing the City of Brotherly Love.

I have enjoyed reading your posts for years in different forums, and I was happy to see that you had begun to post on SOLO. In fact, a few years ago I think we even corresponded online briefly after I asked you a question about something you had written.

Edit: you know what, putting my email and phone number on this site is probably a bad idea, I will SOLO mail it to you instead.
(Edited by Ashley Frazier
on 11/29, 7:16pm)

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Tuesday, November 29 - 7:42pm

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Yes, and if ye be coming thru Tampa, would love having dinner and chats with ye...

Yeah, Ashley - it'd be like leaving it on the bathroom wall... EVERYBODY would know it...

(Edited by robert malcom on 11/29, 7:45pm)

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Tuesday, November 29 - 8:45pm

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Phil-
Go South young man! I'm in Atlanta and would love to have dinner.

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Wednesday, November 30 - 3:16am

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Where in California are you starting from (I'm in S.F.)?

For the really brutally long drives try taking 500-1000 mg. of L-Tyrosine every hour. It'll keep you alert, but not wired or jittery. If you happen like wired and jittery then buy asthma medication with about 20-25 mg. of ephedrine per dose. And if all of that fails to keep you awake and you really get desperate then take a few thousand milligrams of Niacin (vitamin B-3). It'll light you up big-time and the flushing effect in your face and neck can be extremely irritating. But it'll bug you enough to keep you awake long enough to find a safe place to stop and get some sleep. Just don't mix the Niacin and Ephedrine at the same time. ephedrine raises blood pressure and heart rate while Niacin is a vasodilator and will suddenly drop your blood pressure. Mixing them could do wacky things to your heart.

Oh yeah, I was a professional roadie (driver/tech/merch/sound/security/etc.) touring with bands for several years. That should explain everything mentioned above. ;-)

Drive Across Country - Next Year