| Author | Message | ||
| Sinclair Mudaly (98ttsupra)
New member Username: 98ttsupra Post Number: 2 Registered: 4-2002 |
just wanted to say hi guys, and yes there are no decent roads up here in the northdallas/plano area. Do you guys ever get together and go on cruises on a nice weather day? Maybe we can organize a cruise between the local supra and ferrari croud, that would be pretty fun i think. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 302 Registered: 7-2001 |
I saw Deion at Norwoods in his purple Diablo. Nice car. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1255 Registered: 12-2000 |
Had a really nice drive last Saturday driving up NE of Frisco. Many great kinda twisty one lane roads. Not the smoothest though. They don't get pot holes, but pot valleys where it will sink 18 inches, but no cracking or hole. | ||
| Michael Doan (Mdoan300)
New member Username: Mdoan300 Post Number: 1 Registered: 3-2002 |
You should have kept going straight on Preston/289 past 380. One of Deion Sander's homes is off of Preston/289 in Prosper. It's kind of hard to miss 30,000sq-ft of living area and 9,000sq-ft of garage space sitting on ~90 acres of land w/ a small lake and water spout. On that note, Deion seems to like Krispy Kremes. You can see him and his purple Diablo there on occassion.  Michael. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 300 Registered: 7-2001 |
How appropriate. Staying over night in a town called "Leaky" with your Ferrari. My car has been "leaky" since I got it. | ||
| Randy (Schatten)
Junior Member Username: Schatten Post Number: 231 Registered: 4-2001 |
actually down in the hill country we have some great drives - well away from any other traffic, cars, buildings, people. check out http://www.miatadrives.com/ for a few of the roads. most of the great ones are pretty far out from D/FW, but still attainable on a weekend outing and perhaps a B&B stay in Leaky or one of the neighboring towns in the middle of nowhere. | ||
| Jim E (Jimpo1)
Member Username: Jimpo1 Post Number: 283 Registered: 7-2001 |
I think you summed it up Rob. The best driving roads are 'around' Texas! | ||
| Jerry H (Jerry)
Junior Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 64 Registered: 3-2001 |
The road guide sounds good. Lets get a small get together soon. A friend of mine said that L-Greenville was jambed with Fcars this last Sat. | ||
| Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Board Administrator Username: Rob328gts Post Number: 1108 Registered: 12-2000 |
Jerry, I'll have more time to respond to this tomorrow, I bought a book from the Ducati dealer on 35E about the best "driving" roads around Texas. | ||
| Dave (Maranelloman)
New member Username: Maranelloman Post Number: 12 Registered: 1-2002 |
LOL, Jerry! We used to live in Dallas--I know EXACTLY what you mean!!! As for great roads, there are a bunch around Duncanville/Lancaster to the south. Or, for a real world-class treat, come down here to the Hill Country. There are curvy rural roads here that you cannot believe are in Texas--no sh*t!! | ||
| Jerry H (Jerry)
Junior Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 63 Registered: 3-2001 |
Yesterday the wife and I decided we would venture out and see some sights around the small cities up in North Dallas. I didn't have any idea were to go, I just knew that it was the day to do it (65/sunny). I had some criteria for the trip that included finding a destination where I could park safely (if we wanted), little traffic and NO rock haulers (common problem around here). In addition I wanted to find some roads that had a little driving to them; as many of you know here in the great state we like (at least our engineers like) our roads poker straight. This was the challenge. As with all things, knowledge is king, unfortunately I don't have much knowledge of these kinds of things. So off we went. We started our leisurely drive up Preston. We timed this just after the mall stampede started, for those of us hear in the Metroplex this ranks somewhere on the traffic scale between rush hour and sign up day for soccer tryouts, mayhem is the only word that comes to mind. I assured my wife that my screaming gestures, a slightly heightened state of sensitivity, would subside when the mini van filled with the daughters of Plano's finest found a lane in which they felt comfortable. This eventually happened, as I knew it would, when consensus was reached inside the van as to which mall they really NEEDED to go to first. We continued heading north performing yet another hair raising feat of driving skill to avoid being run over by what could only have been an over anxious cell phone engineer carrying out land speed record tests of latest model phone. I felt sorry for this poor man; he was issued a test vehicle that possessed no turn indicators, rearview mirrors or brakes. Understanding that his needs were far more important than our own, I kindly gestured (internationally recognized hand sybology) that his need for ALL of the road was #1 on my priority list too. He immediately "rodgered" my response but was unable to signal because of the sandwich in his OTHER hand (typical engineer,working through lunch). Further north things began to thin out and I sat back, confident that things were getting ready to be fun, to enjoy the day in my beautiful car. We made the turn on 380 and headed for the open road, my wife gazed up at the blue sky and commented how overwhelming the view was. I smiled and replied, as I proudly slung into 3rd, "that�s why they call it the big sky state". The words had almost cleared my bottom teeth when a dark shadow accompanied by the roar of a thousand evil banshees enveloped us, it was the dreaded ROCK HAULERS. The first sped past me like I was standing still, I could see the scowl on the stubble face demon behind the wheel as he flew by. I knew he was laughing as he canvassed the road ahead of me with a thousand tiny potential scratches. Blah..Blah..Blah. The bottom line..made it back, no damage to ourselves or the car but I really want to know what are some driving destinations that are less stressful than what we encountered this weekend. Lets share some. |