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bugs
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# Posted: 16 Sep 2011 04:58pm
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We are 150 km from our tiny shack aka (Ruddy Duck Lodge). I pick the lady wife up from campus at 4:25 and we are unlocking the gate at our driveway around 6:00.
The drive is mostly through cultivated prairie/parkland cropland until we get near our place then there are more hills, more trees and there is a shift to mixed farms, cow/calf and horses. There is a pit stop about an hour out with cheap gas, an in house bakery and some of the best home made sausage (garlic and beer) I have tasted.
The last 15 km is on gravel roads where all the farmers seem to know our truck and wave to us (Nice touch.) and there is usually lots of wild life to see.
We are about 40 km from what passes as a city in these parts (5,000+) if we need anything.
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dmanley
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2011 08:26am
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We are 55 miles, which takes about 1 hours and 15 minutes, door to gate. I would say door to door but we haven't finished the cabin yet. We're about 15 minutes from the nearest store and community, which is also on the way to our property. Travel is mostly interstate and state roads, except for the last 3 miles which is gravel. A little messy in rainly weather, but still managable and well worth the effort.
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AYP1909
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# Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:28am
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Our new cabin will be about a 5-hour drive over 2 mountain passes and through some of the most beautiful scenery in North America. Anything closer is hardly worth leaving home. Except for maybe the traffic, the airplanes, the motorcycles, the din of the city... The old cabin is only a bit over an hour away.
There is a small town about 30 minutes away, a country general store about 5 minutes drive, and 50 minutes to a Home Depot. Growing up in the Seattle area we never measure anything in miles; it is always in minutes since the traffic is the determining factor.
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trollbridge
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# Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:53am - Edited by: trollbridge
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Wow 5 hours is a long drive. I am surprised at how far some of you go.
We are 2 hours 10 minutes from home with a (most importantly) Menards Building Center 20 minutes away (cause we can't seem to get through a weekend without needing to get something we forgot or ran short of!). In fact, lucky for us, an hour from home we pass our first Menards store so, if we are lucky, we already realize what we forgot. If they don't have it at the store by our cabin then simply crossing the bridge into Minnesota provides us with 2 more Menards within minutes of each other. Kinda handy when we needed 20' long 2x12's for roof rafters! A few here, a few there and WHA LAA!. The van on the other hand...not so happy!
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# Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:00pm
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72 miles to cabin in the Ozark mountains of AR ,, 3 miles to the store 1/2 mile to the clear mountain river called spring river ,,,
trout fishin is great in the upper section
catfish and small mouth farther south
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customrunner
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# Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:10pm
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2 hours 15 minutes door to door
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bobrok
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# Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:19pm
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Quoting: trollbridge I am surprised at how far some of you go
Oh, it's worth it, trust me :)
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 1 Dec 2011 12:50am
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35 miles north in a straight line.
66 miles by road though.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 6 Dec 2011 10:56pm
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Quoting: AYP1909 Our new cabin will be about a 5-hour drive over 2 mountain passes...and 50 minutes to a Home Depot. Growing up in the Seattle area we never measure anything in miles; it is always in minutes since the traffic is the determining factor.
Wow, are we in the same area? My cabin is about a 5 hour drive, I drive over 2 mt passes (Blewett and Snoqualmie) and I am about 45 minutes from Home Depot.
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ranchboss
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2011 01:42pm
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canadian girl
That is the perfect place you can work on it during the week.
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AYP1909
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2011 04:15pm
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Toyota:
Snoqualmie and Blewett, indeed. We will be about midway between Tonasket and Republic. HD in Omak.
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Bzzzzzt
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# Posted: 8 Dec 2011 10:10pm
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Our cabin is a 4 hr drive from the house. About 230 miles. It's about 11 miles to the nearest Wal Mart, which constitutes "town." LOL
The cabin is far enough away from the house that it's at least an overnight stay but close enough that if we needed to just run down there we could.
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fthurber
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# Posted: 10 Dec 2011 10:35pm
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about 200 yards! Partially hidden in our woods...
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wakeslayer
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# Posted: 3 Jan 2012 06:03pm
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1375 miles. We drive 1150 the first day, and 225 the next morning.
We drive it every summer and stay for two weeks. The other times we fly to Spokane and take a shuttle van to our storage locker. We keep a big ol' mountain crawler Wrangler there. Town is 20 miles away for supplies.
It's a long ways to go, but worth every minute when we get there. Our goal is to settle about 150 miles from the cabin.
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adakseabee
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# Posted: 3 Jan 2012 08:25pm
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Exactly 507 miles, 1 gas stop for the Silverado, 1 gas stop to fill a five gallon can for the tractor), one extra "pump bilges" stop, 10 miles to a "real" lumber yard, 11 miles to ice and victuals, 12 miles to a Lowe's, and 30 miles to Home Depot, and eons away from the troubles of today. Why am I not there?
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Rifraf
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# Posted: 4 Jan 2012 09:27am
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Mine are:
196 miles from home to cabin
Time is 3:30 door-to-door
Other details:
5 miles to nearest building supply and stores (small town stores like wooden floor grocery, caseys gas station )
I get down there once every week or two to do some work on it.
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tcmatt
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# Posted: 11 Jan 2012 10:36pm
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One hour drive to ferry dock or airport. 2 hour ferry ride or 20 minute flight. (property is on an island in the middle of Lake Michigan.). Once on island, 15 minute drive to land.
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larry
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# Posted: 12 Jan 2012 10:54pm
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my place is 2.5 hours north of my home. not too long of a drive and i'll have to wave to Lisa on my way by!
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cabinbiscuits
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# Posted: 13 Jan 2012 11:43pm
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One hour and ten minutes driving. About 64 road miles.
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jbos333
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# Posted: 15 Jan 2012 01:54pm
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Wow, I thought the drive to my future cabin site was too long. Now that I see what most of you are driving, I'm spoiled!
40 miles to future cabin, so 40-60 minutes depends on weather
3 miles or so to small town - small grocery/gas, convenience store/gas, post office, etc.
20 miles to bigger town- 2 building supply stores, Wallyworld, Tractor Supply, 2 full size grocery stores, Mcd's, BK, Taco Bell, KFC etc etc.
It is my plan to be full time there, but I've always thought it might be a little "too far" to work, etc. Now it doesn't seem so far.
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