Anyone need to do a river crossing on their commute?

[MasterMario]

I found just the vehicle for you

Hey @Miss-Mercedes this is in Chicagoland...maybe you could make it into an ultimate RV/boat.

[DrDanteiii]

@MasterMario I do, but the bridge is a much easier option.

[aremmes]

@MasterMario The owner could make easy money just by towing it to an open field and let people use it for target practice for a nominal fee.

[ttyymmnn]

@MasterMario

I drive one of these.

[ForSweden]

@MasterMario said in Anyone need to do a river crossing on their commute?:

this is in Chicagoland

Does Chicago not use drawbridge anymore

[ttyymmnn]

@ForSweden said in Anyone need to do a river crossing on their commute?:

Does Chicago not use drawbridge anymore

They do, but you have to have the right car.

[HoustonRunner]

@ttyymmnn I had the GI Joe toy of that back in the 80s. I LOVED that one.

[MasterMario]

@ttyymmnn hopefully you're only crossing creeks or small rivers though

[Roadkilled]

@MasterMario

At my last job, I had a coworker who lived in Edwardsville Illinois. The office was in O'Fallon Missouri. He had a 47 mile commute that required crossing both the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the two biggest rivers on the continent. It might have been faster for him to take a boat.

[EssExTee]

@MasterMario I might need to. It started biblically downpouring a bit ago while I was at a customer's house down a steep dirt road. I actually felt the AWD doing stuff on the way out.

[HFV_Junkyardin]

@ttyymmnn IS that a cut seen from GTA2?

[ttyymmnn]

@HFV_Junkyardin said in Anyone need to do a river crossing on their commute?:

@ttyymmnn IS that a cut seen from GTA2?

No, it's from Blues Brothers. Very possibly the greatest car chase ever filmed. The more I look at it, though, the more it looks like CGI. Here's a real shot:

[Ad absurdum per aspera]

Supposed to be surprisingly seaworthy in the right hands. "Lighter" makes one think of harbor conditions, but this is for your... unimproved situations.

[theturbomrt]

Gotta do what you gotta do

[іди на хуй Влад - formerly known as Distraxi]

@Roadkilled said in Anyone need to do a river crossing on their commute?:

@MasterMario

It might have been faster for him to take a boat.

At my job before last I had a co-worker who commuted by boat when the tide was right. Took him an hour and a half by road in rush hour, or 15 minutes to get to his local boat ramp and launch, then 20 minutes along the coast and up an inlet to beach it on the mudflat about 200 yards from the office.

[Roadkilled]

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi

My commute basically goes from one end of a 13 km long lake to the other end. Traffic on the roads around the lake can be bad at rush hour. There are parks with boat launches and boat houses at both ends, and there is a river at the north end that gets me even closer to my office. I've been tempted look at going to work by kayak.

[іди на хуй Влад - formerly known as Distraxi]

@Roadkilled Reminds me of this beer ad - an oldie but a goodie.

[ttyymmnn]

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi

Boy, it's been a long time since I had a Steinlager.

[іди на хуй Влад - formerly known as Distraxi]

@ttyymmnn Ditto. Used to drink the stuff all the time 30 years ago, when my dad worked for Lion so I could get it cheap, but not since. You don’t see a lot of it here nowadays, though I believe it’s still a big export brand.

[ttyymmnn]

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi

When I was in grad school back in the early 90s, I became very close friends with a viola player from Christchurch. He turned me on to Steinlager, and the All Blacks. He also tried unsuccessfully to explain cricket to me, but I have since watched enough to figure it out.