Brad, we do plan on taking nice highway, there has been plenty of big rigs that go up there, it should be a good time.
Thats cool you are a toolmaker/machinist. I still go out welding with the truck but mostley in the winter, mostly oil and gas pressure piping and structural welding. I have 3 trucks I try to keep busy, it gives me more time to tinker with toys etc. I also have a 200dx, I have never tried to plug it in to the Newell but I would imagine it would work fine. They are small enough to stash away in a compartment somewhere. Too bad they dont make a cc/cv with ac to tig aluminum and still mig/stick steel, had a 302 gas powered miller that would, but they dont make a plug in machine that I have found that would do everything. I have a lathe and a cnc mill in my shop and use them when the need arises.