East Coast Gathering of Bus-Folk

[EastCoastCB]

Well, I do live in LAKE county.

[bansil]

Wishing you all safe travels and many fun times and memories, a big project at work has me stuck up North here
Hope ya'll have fun and will meet you folks in the future

[EastCoastCB]

You should put together a lil rally of your own up there in TN.
I could maybe come up in the shorty.

[brokedown]

I think a few of us might be interested in a TN meetup, we could have ourselves an old fashioned convoy of skoolies. ******* up traffic on the interstate like nobody's business.

Although once the weather gets nice in places that aren't Florida, we plan to travel to some of them, we might not be nearby

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by brokedown

I think a few of us might be interested in a TN meetup, we could have ourselves an old fashioned convoy of skoolies. ******* up traffic on the interstate like nobody's business.

Although once the weather gets nice in places that aren't Florida, we plan to travel to some of them, we might not be nearby

BREAK one-nine..
We got a convoy, c'mon.

[brokedown]

On a related note, do people usually mount CB radios in their skoolies?

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by brokedown

On a related note, do people usually mount CB radios in their skoolies?

Nah, they're nothing more than relics these days, man.
We used to be on the CB all the time. That was twenty years ago.
Nothing but other languages and lot lizard banter on there anymore.

[brokedown]

Interesting. The VHF radios are still very important on boats, but I haven't had a good old CB in twenty years or more.

[EastCoastCB]

Yeah twenty years ago I was rocking Cobra 19. Now I've got a prepaid cell with no voicemail and no data or even a browser. Still low-tech.

[brokedown]

Age showing: on.

I had a radio shack three channel radio with swappable crystals that ran on something like 12 AA batteries. I was a member of their battery club, where you would get a free battery every month just for showing your card. They were also one of the biggest computer dealers in town, and even ran their own computer camp, although it wasn't so much a camp as a bunch of kids in a poorly lit room full of Tandy color computers. Anyway, I forgot what I was trying to say.

[EastCoastCB]

When I was a kid there was a Tandy in the back of our classroom that not even the teacher knew how to use. IIRC it had an amber monotone screen.
First time I saw anyone actually use one was when we moved to Indiana for half a year when I was 8. Even back then FL schools were desperately underfunded and behind the times.

[brokedown]

My dad used a Tandy TRS 80 model 3 for his business which was like that, two floppy drives in the front and a monochrome screen. He used that for way way too long, something like 22 years. Now he is pissed off at windows 10 for being hard for him to use.

[bansil]

Cobra 25 GTL w/15' steel whip...ole skool

I roll with head phones/ear plugs...mine is way loud

[tobeamiss]

Now you went and made me feel old!!
Back in the day, my Dad put a CB in our cars and had one at the house. They sure came in handy when the roads got bad. Dad could come and rescue me! We used them when we went on vacations too. They we alot of fun. We had a 50ft antennae at the house. My handle was the "Ladybug" thanks for the memories!!

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by tobeamiss

Now you went and made me feel old!!
Back in the day, my Dad put a CB in our cars and had one at the house. They sure came in handy when the roads got bad. Dad could come and rescue me! We used them when we went on vacations too. They we alot of fun. We had a 50ft antennae at the house. My handle was the "Ladybug" thanks for the memories!!

My dad was "Gopher"... called his 20 "the gopher hole". We had a hundred foot antenna and a big tube amp linear.
over.

[tobeamiss]

Originally Posted by EastCoastCB

My dad was "Gopher"... called his 20 "the gopher hole". We had a hundred foot antenna and a big tube amp linear.
over.

Nice! My Dad was the "Rebel Rouser". He was originally from SC

[cadillackid]

theres a couple exits coming through georgia on I75 where one sachool system's entire fleet must go on.. it literally looks like a skoolie convoy!!!

plus when you get near the fort valley exits you get to see dozens of brand new Bluebirds! esp in the summer there are lots of them!


im in Florida now.. in gainesville for the night then on to st pete... just didnt feel like running the last 175 miles tonight... stopped for a nice dinner and chill out..

I came through tennessee today... id go to a skoolie meet there!.

-Christopher

[EastCoastCB]

Originally Posted by cadillackid

theres a couple exits coming through georgia on I75 where one sachool system's entire fleet must go on.. it literally looks like a skoolie convoy!!!

plus when you get near the fort valley exits you get to see dozens of brand new Bluebirds! esp in the summer there are lots of them!


im in Florida now.. in gainesville for the night then on to st pete... just didnt feel like running the last 175 miles tonight... stopped for a nice dinner and chill out..

I came through tennessee today... id go to a skoolie meet there!.

-Christopher

TN or the lookout mountain area of GA/TN/AL would be GREAT, imo.

[superdave]

took the bus out today, had the cb on 19. don't want to get stuck in traffic. I stopped at a recycle place and weighed the bus, front axel was 5500 then 19560 for the whole thing. looks like ill be leaving with a nw wind 0f 23 mph snow and a balmy 16 * temp.

[Tango]

85 degrees here in Houston today. And...no snow.