i've flown enough for five lifetimes and i have adhd, it's torture at the 4 hour mark. across the country, virgin's fine, if i'm going 9 hours or more, i'm spending a few extra bucks to maintain some kind of sanity and using BA's curtained-off beds .

have you been on a swissair cattlecar lately? rows in the middle of nowhere with fat guys coughing. i'm ipadding it until i need to pop some seroquel i need to fall alseep flying and drool for the remainder of the flight. booze makes me feel like death on planes. anything but attendants bringing you whatever fluids you desire stat leaves you dessicated as shit and again, feeling awful.

i've never seen most of the country, i'd like to. i've spent enough time on the coasts and texas with some skiing and wilderness mixed in, but i'd like to see what the dakotas are like, what the miss. river's like, etc.

yeah, an rv would be cool as shit for something like that, but we've got two viable cars to do it relatively fast and comfortably when it comes down to it. his getting some skiing in and my tagging along if i can do moab and go back to sedona(was there right after new year's but barely scratched the surface of hiking trails or bike trails) make slickrock and redrock a real possibility. both probably are hard to justify trips to on their own, but moab a second time would be a real treat, as would hitting telluride and jackson for him(he's good enough to care that it's not park city or shit, I'm happy with western snow).\

anyhow, a little more comfort or the best sportscar short of the rs8 and christ knows, maybe close to some serious-assed shit. i've driven the cayman, i'll take it over any bmw m, 911's without the major turbos, and i've never driven a gt-r so i can't compare but the only thing i'd rather drive that distance is a 599 in gto form or a 612 because of the space. the v-10 enzo-derivatives are too fucking demanding to want to drive anything but short and on perfect surfaces. i'd take it over any lambo made, unless i was driving in a straight line and had earplugs in the whole time and suffered from color-blindness. it'd blow any of them away going over mountains, million dollars or not, a gt3 may fall short of the top speed, but it'd end up a day ahead of a veyron or lambo once the elevation started to rise and things got twisty. 599's fast and just handles with the track german stuff, i've taken driving courses and a 458's so light and composite-y for the bhp and way it handles 12 hours would make me want 4-point belts and a helmet because redlines around 9k and a comfortable settling in point of 179 is just scary. schuey made that car for himself, it was supposed to replace the non-12 cars but it ended up embarassingly faster than the enzos and f50's. the f40's still considered the one car you can buy that an f1 driver would need serious time with before being able to push, it's supposed to do 240ish, in the hands of a pro it's been clocked faster than mclaren's, veyron's, etc.

ferrari's new top dog team driver supposedly had it over 265, and this is a car from the late fucking 80's.just a beast, so much carbon before carbon and supercars mixed, 4-pointers, race seats, and nothing like a stereo, digital gauges, etc. just a lightweight shell, sickeningly-longthrow clutch and wasn't even geared to do 0-60, it started shining after 150-70. just a brutishly amazing car.

but yeah, i'll take a cayman over an aston for the rockies.