Yahoo maps estimates 5 hours thirty nine minutes from Lake Worth to Lake City
and seven hours fifty minutes to Alcoa from Lake City.
Looks like 15 hours plus fuel,food and potty stops.

 

If its about 8hrs to Lake City and check in time is 5pm, how about we meet at 9am ish in Lake City? (Rough times I know)

 

Here's a thought-let's list our cell numbers for the drive. You can PM me and I'll update the list




Zdave87 "Dave" 407-448-5434

JerseyGirl "Kimmie" 954-560-7004

DEIGER "Matt" 561-315-4054

Treedriver "Wayne" 904-347-6647

 

^^^

PMd mine

 

I did this drive last Sept. on my own. I stopped only for fuel and a 15min. food stop. Did the whole trip from Lake Worth to Knoxville in 11 hours. Average speed in Florida was 70-80 mph. Georgia, damn if I wasn't at the speed limit (too many cops to mess with), and TN cross 70-80mph based on traffic.

We have a few FI engines going this year so we might need to add 1 extra gas stop, not sure on the Highway mpg.

I concur with Jerseygirl on timing. If we leave on Thursday at 5:30-6am we could get to Lake City in roughly 5.5 hours, which means 10:30-11am.

If I may, we did a quick stretch break at the Welcome Center for Georgia off of I-75. We could do exchange of cell phones and meet there. Although we are counting a lot of good average speeds and no traffic.

Let me know your thoughts.

Deiger

 

I say "F-em". Let 'em build an extra fuel tank.


Deiger, we've got to keep in mind that we'll have at least one So Fla member heading up from the extreme south end of Dade County. Don't know if we can realistically set a departure time of 5:30-6am.

 

Shouldn't be quite that long.
Last year, 3 of us did the trip and made it in about 14 hours and that was with hitting major traffic outside of Atlanta.

 

Would this be the easiest meeting location? How far beyond the I-10 / I-75 junction is that?

 

[QUOTE=JerseyGirl,Mar 7 2005, 11:23 PM] Would this be the easiest meeting location?

 

Sounds fine to me. Deiger, what do you think?