Cabin fever, nails in worn tire, AutoPilot preference

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Feeling a little cabin fever, I was thinking about driving to the Mississippi casinos in Tunica. But I picked up at least two nails on the worn front tire making it unrepairable. Expected, I was planning to replace the front tires and ordered a replacement pair. So I switched to the backup, BMW i3-REx. A nice car, the 4 hour, 234 mile trip each way is not a problem except no BMW AutoPilot.

The BMW is a joy around town and pretty good on the highway. The MagicEye, dynamic cruise control works nicely. But without lane keeping and lane changing, it becomes another, long distance drive. So I've decided to wait for the new tires. AutoPilot takes so much of the burden so I can enjoy the trip.

In a couple of weeks, the Martin Luther King holiday will be here, Jan 18, and I can get a low room rate. The Christmas/New Years surge will have abated (or sent them home.) So the options:
  • direct to GoldStrike - the limit of current range, modest speeds makes it possible.
  • SuperCharge Tupelo MS or Memphis TN - either works with Tupelo being midway.
  • SuperCharger Athens AL - pretty close to Huntsville, a 'topper' charge going West and a stretch headed home.
Winter weather and winds will be the determinant.

Bob Wilson
 
I thought you bought new tires not long ago, or was that rims? A trip to a casino is not something I'm going to, but for your wife's sake, I hope you don't get a bad case of Covid.
 
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I thought you bought new tires not long ago, or was that rims?
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Both rims and tires. I had planned to runout the front tires and replace but the nails called the issue. I am running 'staggered' tires:
  • 225/45R18 front (ordered) - replacing the worn out front tires, one with two nails
  • 225/55R18 rear - due to front king pin overhang, these only work on the rear
marshall said:
A trip to a casino is not something I'm going to, but for your wife's sake, I hope you don't get a bad case of Covid.
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My wife of 43 years passed Saturday, December 19, under home hospice. I miss her but the accumulated maladies, it was time: AFIB (pretty common in older folks); end stage renal failure (creatine 5.1-5.5, normal 1,) and; advanced dementia (Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde stage.)

I've visited the Tunica casinos last summer and they have pretty good COVID-19 sanitation practices. Must mask all times unless actively sipping drink. Plastic dividers between players and dealers with station sanitation when player leaves. Plenty of hand sanitizers and dice cleaning when shooter changes. Chips will always be a challenge but masking and hand sanitizers helps a lot.

Bob Wilson
 
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I'm sorry to hear about your wife. However, from your posts I got the sense you took very good care of her. Over forty years of marriage is something to be proud of. Good job the both of you.
 
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