Boston Driver

So this weekend, I was "forced" into taking the beast to a Rev War reenactment at Fort Ticonderoga in upstate NY. I had planned on taking my wife's Honda Pilot because of all the stuff I needed to haul, but because of her "maintenance required" light coming on Thursday night, needless to say, I was not going to take the truck on a long drive until I could get it checked out.

So, I packed up the 4.2, and Junior Driver and myself headed up to Fort Ti.

Not many pics on the jouney up, since I was racing the darkness on Friday evening (sorry Mr. Hansen, we did not meet in VT on my way through). Here we arrived at camp, and had our tent setup (sorry for the blurry pic)...

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In the morning, this is what the camp looked like...

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...and I wonder if they make these multi-spoke wheels with the proper offset to clear HP2 calipers???

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And this is what my license plate looked like, I think the Xenons act as a bug light, and the front end of my car takes 'em out! Anyone wanna check these for Eastern Equine Encephalitis??

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This was Jr. Driver and I at the Fort taking in the sites...

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Sunday afternoon, packed and ready to go. BTW - those OEM roof bars are pretty nice, but yes, a bit noisy on the highways...

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We took the ferry from the Fort in NY across Lake Champlain to VT...

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...and a couple of shots from the road trip home through the Green mountains of VT...

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Overall, a great trip, 4 hours from the FOrt to my driveway, including the ferry ride and two "potty" stops on the way. The car and the RNS-E navigation worked flawlessley, and in the end I was glad that I took the car instead of the truck. Avg was 19MPG (manual calculation at fillups), computer said 19.5MPG. Still not too bad.

AzadA8

since the last night i saw him...which was last year...you car is looking dead sexy ( if you didnt know that already) and hows it runing?

doctorno

very cute kid! no pics of the re-enactment tho lol :-(

Boston Driver

other than the gas mileage, which is only slightly worse than the 2.7T.

All the gadgets are working fine, and I am REALLY enjoying it! Haven't seen you around town lately...did you move???

Boston Driver

I'll add a few later.

Meltz

...that Ethan Allen had an Audi brigade under his command .

Sweet car, and nice pix!

A4AdMan

Make sure you don't post the ones that show you dead on the field of battle. To traumatic.

Boston Driver

the Crown forces were just too strong for the Continental forces and militia.

I think the highlight was the canon fire on Saturday night after 9PM. Jr. Driver was alseep, then all the canon let loose, ripple fire for the next 15 minutes. Fun time, and believe it or not, the little guy slept right through it!

A4AdMan

ROTFLMAO

wallaby

Nice photos. Love that drive, we always enjoy the Fort Ti ferry (even have t-shirts), and I know exactly where that Stop sign is.