loong drive
Wow, now I can't even crack a joke about a crazy-long drive, I've done too many.
While I would be willing to do the drive, and I would enjoy the conversation, we're talking about adding an "extra" 2500 miles to another 3000 mile trip, this time in August. Even assuming the pace was stepped up quite a bit from my usual 600 mile/day pace, to say 900, we're still talking about over 4 days of HARD driving in August, in an Opel. Add 3 days in CA, and 2 more just to get me home, and I'm out 9 days of work for the event, if nothing goes wrong the entire trip. Planning for delays, and a more moderate pace, and I might miss as much as 20 days to do this kind of trip, with Bob on the road for most of that too. Add to that, if something did break, there is the possibility of missing the event entirely while fixing things.
While this kind of thing could be done, it would require so much planning, luck, and $ that even I would be hard pressed to truely justify the trip. Oddly enough, the August part has me the most worried; after the heat stroke I got driving from NY to SD last July I just haven't been able to handle the heat as well and it kind of scares me. Probably not a trip to really plan on taking very seriously.
All that said, I do need to get over to OH sometime this summer/fall to deliver some parts. Depending on what kind of time crunch Bob is in I might be able to deliver parts then. I also have all kinds of room to store stuff here, so that's no big deal either.