thenaimis
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My original plan for taking delivery of my Taycan was to fly to Los Angeles and do the PCELA experience, get it wrapped and coated in LA, drive from LA to Las Vegas to visit family, then drive the rest of the way back to central Texas.
Of course, these days the prospect of flying isn't a great idea. I'd hoped that by the time my car was ready (currently scheduled for October 23) that the Pandemic will have abated somewhat, but now as infection rates skyrocket, I'm far less confident it'll be safe to fly by then.
Additionally, while my initial looks at the trip back using A Better Route Planner indicated it would be possible to make the trip, now it's indicating that the gap between Las Vegas and Phoenix is too great. It does seem doable using RV parks for charging in Kingman, about halfway between the two cities, according to information available from plugshare, but that information isn't available to ABRP for what it's worth. And this complication made me a little more apprehensive.
And then when I ran across a completely unrelated video of someone describing road tripping through that desert between LA and LV in an ICE car, I really started to question the sanity of my plans. So while I really wanted to get someone at Porsche to teach me to drive this car, and I wanted to visit my family, the experience is going to have changed from side by side instruction to separate cars due to covid-19 and the risk to both me and my family may not be trivial either. And since I just lost my uncle out there in Las Vegas I don't want to risk spreading a deadly disease to the survivors either. And hell, it may be far enough out that I can't really make a decision, but it definitely has me wondering if I'm making a series of big (potentially fatal) mistakes.
Of course, these days the prospect of flying isn't a great idea. I'd hoped that by the time my car was ready (currently scheduled for October 23) that the Pandemic will have abated somewhat, but now as infection rates skyrocket, I'm far less confident it'll be safe to fly by then.
Additionally, while my initial looks at the trip back using A Better Route Planner indicated it would be possible to make the trip, now it's indicating that the gap between Las Vegas and Phoenix is too great. It does seem doable using RV parks for charging in Kingman, about halfway between the two cities, according to information available from plugshare, but that information isn't available to ABRP for what it's worth. And this complication made me a little more apprehensive.
And then when I ran across a completely unrelated video of someone describing road tripping through that desert between LA and LV in an ICE car, I really started to question the sanity of my plans. So while I really wanted to get someone at Porsche to teach me to drive this car, and I wanted to visit my family, the experience is going to have changed from side by side instruction to separate cars due to covid-19 and the risk to both me and my family may not be trivial either. And since I just lost my uncle out there in Las Vegas I don't want to risk spreading a deadly disease to the survivors either. And hell, it may be far enough out that I can't really make a decision, but it definitely has me wondering if I'm making a series of big (potentially fatal) mistakes.
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