Tommy_s4

Ok, I've been planning this trip for about 2 years now. Its a trip to forget about everything and go somewhere. The problem of making a dream real is the mony. I'm looking for sponcers for a trip from New York, U.S.A. to Hong Kong, China. Anybody have any idea how to rais about 20Grand? (20 grand= gas, food, hotels, police bribs::we all know a usa car in russia will be fun::, car repairs, videa camras, tape. I plan to create a website etc. Also any idea how to get from alaska to russia? thats about it for now i guess. The trip will be in 2008. Gota hit 18 for the trip. You guys will prob think i'm some imature kid, I'm not I've bin around. I've been to china 8 times, Did acting there. i've been around the world. If i get enough money i plan to upgrade my ML320 with a new suspenson before the trip so that it can hande the harsh conditions better. Well thats it for now. Wish me luck.

Musikmann

I don't mean to be offensive, but your spelling/grammar is horrible. I wish you good luck with your solicitation for money, but I don't have enough myself to help an "immature kid" - your words - on some fantasy joyride who can't use the english language any better than you do. I think you would make a pretty poor ambassador abroad for the USA. Grow up and go to college, and while you're there, take some remedial english courses!

FireFox31

Damn, if I had a Benz before I was 18....... It's 10 years later and I still don't really deserve one.

Tommy_s4

ok both of you I'm an acter their for i'm a compleat moron with a 167iq. lol. Also acting pays ok money their for I have a car. I'm more of a family guy though so I got my parents one to. Anyway my spelling yea I know. I really need to work on it. What can i say. Anyway thanks for the replies.

Musikmann

Your IQ is 167? If this is true, congratulations! You are in a VERY elite fraternity - 99th(+) percentile.

I'm not UNintelligent, but I would commit a homicide (vehicular of course) to have an IQ that high.

M

Tommy_s4

after i took my test the instructer said i was "gifted". But i still cant spell with all that brain power. go figure.

Musikmann

Maybe you have some form of dyslexia? As far as I know, there is NO correlation between IQ and any form of that "disease".

And "gifted" is an understatement!

Cheers,
M

raymond g-

.....kind of like an idiot savvant then...like in Rain Man?

Musikmann

No, he had autism. But, as far as I know, that is not correlated with IQ either.

Curiously, Dustin Hoffman came to my town in West Virginia to learn what it was all about to be an idiot savant. I used to have a customer who ran an Autism center, and the boy was her son. I met him briefly; he was pretty bizarre!

raymond g-

yes n no. autism can be simply be someone with under developed cognative
and learning skills. idiot savant can still be autism, but the person also has the
unexplainable ability to excel in areas where normally developed people require
much training....and where the autistic person had none. ergo lies the
interesting marriage of low IQ vs high IQ...in the same person.

Musikmann

Thank you Raymond. I hadn't considered the training vs. no-training aspect of this issue.

I suppose the etiology of the various autisms is still only speculation(?)

Tommy_s4

Ok guys, I'm not an idiot, moron, etc. I am not rain man, I am not dyslexic. Etc any other name u can pile on. To just clear the record. I can spell, Its just whenever i type fast I cant. I was just joking when I said I still cant spell.God damn. If someone was reading this they would think I have down syndrome.

thanks for the replies.....i guess..........

zam2000

Once the real estate deal that I'm working on completed (it's going through escrow right now), I should have quite some extra cash. It will be quite a cash winfall for me on that deal.

I think your proposal and idea sound great (raise $$ for your trip around the world), and I wouldn't mind to help you. Probably not the whole $20K, but definitely anywhere 20-25% of that sum, that should give you a good starting point. Just share experience of your trip w/ us here.

Btw, those who're in the real estate business probably know: I'm selling the B.B (NY). Should make local headline once the deal close.

Tommy_s4

Thanks,
I also plan on pitching my idea to parts companies to get the parts to mod my truck. I'm currently designing the website. I'm also creating a route to take and figureing out how to get my car from alaska to russia. Also should i keep going when i reach Hong Kong. Should I keep going to England? I also plan on writing a letter to Moter trend, car and driver, road and track, Top Gear, Fifth Gear, etc about this to see if i can write an article for there magazine about the trip.
Thanks alot. also If you need to reach me my number is (347) 968- 3360

Thanks

Whitey

LOL, no offence but in a way this thread has turned kinda funny, at least to by-standers (I think I know how you feel too tho).

When do you plan to do it? If around Oct this year, MB will be testing out the facelifted W211 CDI's, travelling from Paris to Beijing. I'm planning on joining that . Maybe you should explore tagging on to that program somehow to save some costs and have some company (33 new CDIs in fact)? I'm also exploring sending my car to Malaysia, maybe doing a trip around Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam..nowhere near as adventurous as your plan but anyways it beats driving around this tiny town...

Be sure to hit me up if ever in this part of the world, but remember, you'll be driving on a different side of the road over here

Good luck.

Musikmann

No offense my friend, raymond g- and I just started talking about some things and were only using your thread for that. I don't think either of us intended to call you an idiot, moron, rain man or dyslexic. OK, I see that you CAN spell when you slow down a bit.


Now maybe we should start talking about what types of pharmaceuticals you might need to relax you a bit

Tommy_s4

Very funny, very funny.

Tommy_s4

Any idea on HOW to tag along?