Dan started the meeting at high noon...I arrived at 1:05pm.
Fortunately, there were a couple of people already there that did not say if they were going to come at the Sonic in Cypress, Texas. It was a sauna-like and nearly 100F - heat index was probably 110F. Both Dallas and Houston had ozone orange days - Dallas has ozone red on Sunday.
Pictures will follow, but just got back at 3am. One guy brought his son and a new TCH - the other a Mitshibui Gallant (ironically one just like it in Corsicana just south of Dallas was pulled over for speeding - different car). Dan got his tires up to 60psi and installed his ScanGage, took him for a clinic and Jeff got 40-something mpg - definitely beating the EPA. Jeff drives a motorcycle.
Dan was expermenting with daisy chaining a pair of ScanGages (i.e. a pair working at the same time). After some difficulty, he had success!
Dan drove my Insight for the first time and went from 50.2 to 89.7 mpg! Had my Insight five years before getting 90mpg for any segment. I took a city spin on Dan's Prius and got shy of 88.5mpg - definitely pleased.
My main regret was leaving about 90 minutes late - could have tried for a 90mpg trip from Lewisville (Dallas) to Cypress (Houston), but it was 80.8 to Houston - 82.2mpg back to Dallas (but could have been 1mpg better if it were not for an inadvertant turn into Downtown Dallas by the JFK site...that grassy knolll must have worked on me.
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Dan must give me good mojo - on my 1st highway drive in a Prius - I got 60mpg @ 60mph. On the way to this meeting, my lifetime mpg finally broke into the 60's (was about 47 when purchased)
Intestingly this "liberating" feeling of having 60.1lmpg was shortly after passing the Huntsville State Pentaturary.
Ate at a Chinese restaurant, and Dan left a minute before I did. When I caught up - a near accident and verbal assult had taken place. A nurse had to stop for a pedestrian - a guy with his wife right behind her nearly collided. He got out and hurtled obsentities at her - she was visibly upset by it all. It was all but certain he was not sober. We took down the license plate of his F350 - he got back out when he saw me attempting to sneak a picture of his plate, but fortunately he did not quite resort to fighting. He did his fearless bluster and finally left.
Need to find a different note to end - a couple of big-rigs were hauling windmill blades out of Houston - wish my camera was ready.
The meeting was a good start.
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