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Old Mar 2, 2011 | 11:51 PM
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thats less then 100 miles a day lightweight! if you lived in wasilla youd put on 100 miles a day commuting to anchorage to work! up the ante! u gonna have to try harder to impress the wasilla folks.
 
Old Mar 3, 2011 | 01:11 AM
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yeah i know haha but considering i dont leave town much. other then odd trip to wasilla or down south its all around town miles. thats 58.8 miles a day around town running here and there. thats not counting the miles i've put on the expedition in that time frame lol i was just like holy crap thats alot!

since quitting my fulltime job i've been driving alot more.
 
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yeah i know haha but considering i dont leave town much. other then odd trip to wasilla or down south its all around town miles. thats 58.8 miles a day around town running here and there. thats not counting the miles i've put on the expedition in that time frame lol i was just like holy crap thats alot!

since quitting my fulltime job i've been driving alot more.

ya man for just around town! thats allot, but you went to hope last weekend i though?
 
Old Mar 3, 2011 | 01:30 AM
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yeah that was 200 miles round trip..well 198 to be exact. girdwood the weekend before. but the rest is all in town. i dont realize how fast it adds up. guess thats why i've been filling up so often lol
 
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man filling up i hate doing that!
 
Old Mar 3, 2011 | 03:05 AM
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yeah. like i told a friend. i just stopped looking at the pump lol i just like seeing that F mark being covered by the needle!
 
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F mark being covered by the needle!
There's joke there somewhere...
 
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There's joke there somewhere...

maybe it is, when mines full it goes past the F by a bit
 
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Just got the Ex back from the transmission being rebuilt and am headed for Fairbanks in the morning. Will try and get some pictures on the trip.
 
Old Mar 3, 2011 | 08:12 PM
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goodluck! i'd be alittle worried about leaving on a trip right after a large repair like that but hope it goes well! take survival gear!

yeah mine goes alittle past it also.


another 90 miles today..all running across town. damn! lol
 
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Well I guess I shouldn't say just got it back. It was 5 days and a few hundred miles or so ago. But after being without it for a week and a half it doesn't feel very long ago. Yeah I wanted to get a few miles before we drove up. And we never go anywhere without winter gear.
 
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oh ok good to hear, better safe then sorry so they say right? lol
 
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Great pics, nice looking x. Have you dusted off that engine compartment yet?
 
Old Mar 4, 2011 | 04:14 AM
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another 90 miles today..all running across town. damn! lol

thats just another 40$

money grows on treez!
 
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i wish! filled her up tonight....$130.01 had a 30cent discount on the first 28 gallons and a 10cent discount on the last 8 gallons. it still hurts!
 



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