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unOFFICIAL OR SoreButtapalooza to Mt. Rushmore.


Tonik

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My place of business calls me in to the office today and starts to give me grief about me taking my vacation in 2 weeks and try to cancel it and they know about my trip that I applied and got my vacation approved for back in December of last year. So here is what is going on there are five of us in my department It takes all five of us to keep it running smooth but we can get by ok with 4 so only one of use can be on vacation at a time My vacation starts on the 11th and ends on the 17th one of the other guys starts on the 18th and ends on 24th which is not a problem but the other 3 guys in the department all turned in their two week notice Friday. I worked for Eaton Corp for 31 years and get a pension and I’m at the age where I can get social security now. I told them I would be more than happy to work overtime and cover my coworker’s vacation time but if they canceled my vacation they would have my 2 week notice by the end of the day. My coworker is a few years older than me and retired after 30 years in the navy. Turns out my coworker told them the exact same thing I did. I will find out by the end of the week what they decide. I will be going no matter what their decision is. F-ing ass hats I may turn in my 2 week notice Monday anyway.

The days if treating employees with respect and like we are a asset are long over. At my work it's always us against them anymore. I wish I could respect the man I work for because that's the way it should be but they make that impossible. When guys get older at my work instead of trying to tap into that experience and knowledge they look at it as "this guy gets too much vacation and can't work as fast let's get rid if him" but they don't want to sweeten the retirement pot so they can. We are nothing more than a number in their system and it makes me sick.
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Not really. Sometimes you just have to call a turd a turd. I do feel for you that you're in this position though. Someone with your experience should be much more valued. Maybe this is a good thing. Either way, I'm glad you didn't cave and are still going on this trip.

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I'm looking at day 4 and 5. Originally I had us staying east of Chicago...but that is 13 hours. I am just not liking that idea after 3 days of pretty hard riding. Plus hotels are either dumps or pretty expensive.  Does anyone object to staying south on 80 on the way home....and then staying just west of Chicago at Morris IL. Lots of cheap hotels there.  Shouldn't be that much traffic on 80 Monday morning...we could leave a little early so we get past Chicago easily.

 

It would look  like this:

 

 

Sunday:   http://goo.gl/maps/sWa19  11 hours

 

Monday:   http://goo.gl/maps/dAJ3k  5..75 hours

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Ok, we will go with that plan then. I just grabbed a room at the Days Inn...Morris Illinois for Sunday night the 15th.  Below is the link, make sure it is the right hotel and dates and stuff please drive through.

 

 

http://www.daysinn.com/hotels/illinois/morris/days-inn-and-suites-of-morris/hotel-overview?cid=local

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Final routes for all five days with stops.  I printed out a copy for everyone along with the ICE phone numbers you all gave me.

 

http://goo.gl/maps/j8ZgV   Day 1 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/EiK3D   Day 2 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/lQJWh   Day 3 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/JGls4   Day 4 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/buVxa   Day 5 with stops

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even i am excited just following the thread, cant imagine how you guys must be feeling.

 

Island of hate, be island of hope for me and plan some thing like this for sep 2015. May be a Epic Ohio to Cali or Mission Ozark some thing. Oh wait a minute, i dont know where i will be on sep 2015 :(

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Final routes for all five days with stops.  I printed out a copy for everyone along with the ICE phone numbers you all gave me.

 

http://goo.gl/maps/j8ZgV   Day 1 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/EiK3D   Day 2 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/lQJWh   Day 3 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/JGls4   Day 4 with stops

 

http://goo.gl/maps/buVxa   Day 5 with stops

Transfering them to Map Quest so I can put them In gps. Google maps suck in that respect.
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Transfering them to Map Quest so I can put them In gps. Google maps suck in that respect.

ITN Converter. Free. Put the long Google link into the box that says 'name' and it will export to darn near anything. Yea, Google sucks at transfers.

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Or tell.me what format you need and I'll email them to you

Downloaded converter and was able to modify first route to my start point. But can't seem to get it in the GPS. Have a card in the GPS and it lists as f drive. I'm missing a step. Garmin Nuvi. Believe it would be a gpx file. Tech savy I'm not.

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Downloaded converter and was able to modify first route to my start point. But can't seem to get it in the GPS. Have a card in the GPS and it lists as f drive. I'm missing a step. Garmin Nuvi. Believe it would be a gpx file. Tech savy I'm not.

 

GPX looks right.  After you copy them to that SD card it looks like you have to import them on the Nuvi menu.

 

https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId=%7B65814150-50b3-11dc-4ec8-000000000000%7D

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Everything is Ok they will get it covered  

 

That is freaking awesome. Everybody wins, especially us since you will be with us. It's going to be epic. Weather is pretty decent. Maybe a little rain in Chicago on the way out, maybe a little rain Friday morning. Rest of it is clear.

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BTW, I run a tracker on my GPS...lets the wife know I am ok plus she likes to follow along.  As long as none of you object, I am going to post the link here when we leave so the OR peeps can follow along. And of course so can your wifes/girl friends/boy friends.

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