wow what game was it?

Perhaps you forgot that you are no longer in the 18 - 25 year old age group.
Or perhaps because you "stayed at a Holiday Inn Express", you thought you would be high energy roadtrippers.
At least you got a lot out of the weekend.
Anything funny happen on your road trip? Any drama out on the road that you saw?
Did wifey enjoy the quality time spent together?

Just another exciting aspect of pinball. Glad you made it back safe!

Ah but the game is so much better when you have to work for it. Now whenever you look at it you will remember the epic journey it took to get it.

There and back again... lol

Don't worry, give or take a few years, you are not the first to behave like this. Count me in!

Could have shipped for $350--you probably spent $800 going there, but that hour in Cincy was probably worth it LOL.

All the machines I've acquired past & present, I drove & picked them up.
Yes, on a couple trips I could have saved money by having them shipped, but not all trips.
On a couple trips a friend came with me, so that made the trips much more fun.
One trip turned into a mini-vacation, so the extra money spent on that trip doesn't count towards pinball shipping expenses correct?
Fortunately, no problems encountered so far on my pinball roadtrips concerning:
vehicle break downs, accidents/wrecks, speeding tickets, road rage, damaged machines (except minor cabinet dings), etc.

At age 51, I'll also admit that it's getting harder to still act like a 20-something yr old.

I think gas vs shipping price should be considered here. How much did you spend in gas alone besides all the time you invested?

Glad you got a machine you really wanted though

enjoy

I always look at it this way. It's a hobby so it should be fun and interesting. If the goal was to make money off this thing called pinball I would have given up ages ago.

Isn't there some quote out there. "Part of the trip is the journey?????" Maybe I made that up.

Nice score and congrats on a new addition to your collection.

Chris

I had a 1000 mile trip similar to that to pick up my STTNG a month or so ago. I was a truck driver for 10 years, and I used to make that drive 3 times a week. This one hurt. I am only 40, but I could definitely feel the effects for days. I just did a 500 mile round trip on Sunday to pick up a Demo Man, and that is still a good range for me.

Between California Extreme and game pick ups, I have made 5 trips of 400 miles or more in the last 10 weeks. I think I am ready for a break. lol

This reminds me of my and Brian's warehouse find in Sturgis SD. 620 miles and 10 hours one way in a 27' Penske rental truck.

We left at 6:00 AM New Years eve day and arrived in Sturgis around 4:00. If you've never driven that far in an empty truck, you're missing a real treat. And if you've never driven I90 in SD in the winter time, you're missing another real treat. The winds never quit blowing. We then spent the next 5 hours loading 22 games. By the time we got to Rapid City (where we spent the night), got a bite to eat, found out I f'ed up the hotel reservation, found another hotel along with a six pack and almost got arrested at a grocery store, we got to bed around 1:00 AM.

We were then on the road at 5:00 AM and made it back to town around 3:00. It was a great feeling the closer we got to home, but we then spent the next 4 hours unloading the truck and taking it back to the rental center. I think we finally made it home around 7:00. I think I was sleeping by 7:30. The following day I felt like I had been run over by a truck.

Good story B_K. I guess you sorta felt like you got run over by a 27' Penske rental truck loaded w/ 22 pinball machines. What was the deal w/ the grocery store incident? Just short tempers?
Also curious, was there any somewhat rare pins in that haul, anything interesting or spectacular w/ any of the pins? Sounds like the road conditions could have easily been much worse being that it was the dead of winter.

You can search Pinside for "warehouse find" and get all the details.

We got to the grocery store about 5 minutes after it closed. About the time we're turning around to leave, two squads pull up. Turns out they had a silent alarm a couple minutes before we got there. Of course, it took about 15 minutes for the cops to check out our ID's and let us go.

The first pic is our haul and the second is me about 9:00 PM after being on the road since 6:00 AM and spending the last 5 hours packing and loading pins. The last time we ate was late morning. I'm f'ing hungry and I want a f'ing beer.

Oh, did I mention it was New Years Eve day in SD and there was no heat in the warehouse.

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