I miss my baby!!

[connman429]

So here I am, thousands of miles from my Tc. I haven't been home for three weeks. This job will probably take another two. I'm outside the U.S. and the customer is chauferring me to the jobsite and back to the hotel. In the last month, I've been renting/borrowing a 2001 Escort, 2009 Jeep (can't remember the model name, it's the 4-door Wrangler), 2009 Camry, and a 2010 Altima (all of them are auto trans and gutless). They all suck when compared to my car! I'm going out of my mind!! I find myself hitting these forums three or four times a day, just to see what other people are saying about their Tc. Last week, I spent about K in my head, surfing the net, looking for future upgrades. I actually feel guilty knowing that my car will have sat for five weeks, but I don't trust my roommate to drive her; I just know he would dump the clutch and stall out. I feel like a junkie without my crack fix! Do the rest of you feel the same about your Tc, or am I fixating?

[navylife59]

You are not out of your mind. Well, unless you felt that way about a Honda. I feel the exact same way when I deploy overseas on my 40 Day junkets. I sit there daydreaming about cruising in my tC down the Autostrada in Sicily, the Autobahn in Germany, tooling in Japan or the smooth asphalt goodness in the Westernized Middle East countries. Then I think about how the drivers and back roads of Sicily are total crap; the Germans might laugh at me; Middle East and sand, need I say more; and the narrow roads and traffic around Tokyo. Japan would be awesome to take my baby back home to his birthplace.

[connman429]

I'm down in Trinidad right now. It would be great to have my car down here. Just the fact that the driver is on the left would turn heads (Another country that drives on the left hand side of the road). Going through town at 10 mph (traffic)would get the S/C whining just right! Then, whipping around the guy trying to turn and nailing the gas would be fun. They drive down here like rookie day at the auto-cross track.

[navylife59]

Dang! You are so far South that you are just about out of the Caribbean. How are the roads down there? We did an RON (Remain Over Night) there once at Port-of-Spain. The roads on our 45 minute trip from the Aeroporto to the hotel seemed good. Ever make it over to Tobago?

[connman429]

The roads are narrow, but in driveable condition. I wouldn't want to navigate through the towns in a Duallie! I haven't really done any travelling, since I've been at the job site for ten hours a day since I've been here. I've got tomorrow off, but that's going to be my paperwork day. Hopefully I'll be able to get finished Monday and head home Tuesday. I've been gone too long.

[navylife59]

Have a good flight home. Oh wait. With Obama cutbacks you are probably having to take a row boat home.