I'm tellin ya. It was the shizzle. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Katrina Martin <k.d.martin@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:02:09 To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tcb] Re: DAC Classic Trip Report Damn I knew I should have camped. Damn...Mudd wrestling is my favorite!!! Katrina On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:23 AM, Wuzmop@xxxxxxx wrote: > We head out Thursday at 9:30 am right on time. Mike and I are in our > buses from Dallas to Alvarado to meet Bodean and Luke and family to > head out. Two unproven cars in Lukes ghia and Mike’s new 23. My bus > has made this trip many times. This time, it got a new shift coupler > and the tranny fluid changed before the trip, in addition to the > normal preparations. > > Going around the loop and on to I35, hit 4th gear GRRRR, THUD, POP! > I’m down. We pull off, and there are virtually no flat spots, so I > park it and get out. The bus didn’t hold in gear and went for a ride > with the family in it. Luckily, it was a short ride and I had the > wheels pointed to the curb so it stopped, but the wife’s rapid > heartbeat continued. I had a good 30 minute ride at 40 mph in 3rd > back to the house with Mike following to think up plan B. > > Plan B, cram a bus full of crap and the family in the bug. Now we > have 3 unproven cars on the trip, and I’m scared to death because > the bug is my cruise around town hot rod, I never intended it for > long trips. Plus my daily driver bus is at home dead, if I kill this > one, I’m in trouble. > > We baby the rides, cruising at a brisk 55 or so, I’m in front, and 5 > behind me including Bodeans truck and Sara’s mini van. Cruise is > going great until well after Hico in the sticks somewhere some > jackhole in a pick up yelled at a DPS officer in front of us. The > officer gets behind me, A) I’m going up a hill B) I’ve slowed to > pass him, he pulls me over and says I was impeding traffic and he > clocked me at 50. I explained the cruise, blah, blah, he gives me a > warning. I continue up to where the rest of the guys pulled over, > and Sara and Lukes mini van took a dump. They had AAA and insisted > that we continue, they would be back tomorrow. > > We had a brief linkage issue with Mike’s bus, but made it before the > rain, I ran to Walmart and bought a tent and we all set up camp. We > had been there a couple of hours, went to eat. I guess Bodean ran > back to get his wallet and was informed we couldn’t camp where we > were, no signs, and there was nobody to check in with when we got > there. Steve C worked it out in the morning, we were pretty adamant > about not moving since we managed to beat the rain and set up on dry > ground. Moving would mean putting our tents in the wet grass. All is > good! > > Torrential storm on Friday morning and we hunkered down in the tent > and survived it unscathed. I think we all slept thru it. Free nap! > Yay! > > I left early for the cruise to open the rest rooms at the park. Got > lost an hour out of the way, but still beat the cruise there! > > The rest of the weekend is a blur, saw a bunch of folks, ran Murray > through a brick wall, mud wrestling at the camp site, girls kissing, > the usual. Had a blast. Any more information regarding the events is > confidential. > > We came home on Monday, got pulled over in a school zone on the > highway that I didn’t see. Had a wonderful debate with a super nice > officer on why I don’t have to have an inspection on my antique > registered car. Got a ticket for speeding. Awesome. > > The bug did fantastic! All our cars made it back home safe, now I > want to build a road trip bug! > > The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps!