Dang, looks like I'm about 6 months too late to start thinking about Moab...
Ashley it is about 21 hours for me, but I have been there 7 times, it is THAT much fun. And I don't even have a VX. :bwgr: (Technically it is an all Isuzu event, but I think VXs were at least 80% of the crowd in 08. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
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There likely will be some opportunities to convoy. There are a couple of VXs in Chicago that you could hook up with in, say, Iowa City, or Lincoln, or at least Denver if you didn't want to miss out on that beautiful Kansas countryside (Nebraska is SO much more interesting
). And I am usually coming down to Des Moine from Minneapolis myself. I have convoyed from there westward with some of the Chicago crowd in the past.
This, of course, assumes I still have a job and can afford the trip
but that pretty much goes without saying for anybody.
T'would be nice if gas prices stay this low for May 09...compared to near $4/gallon this year.