Glad you made it home safe. Did Steve and Sharon make it home ok?
Thanks for saying my trip report is great!
You need to finish your trip report by lets say,uhh Saturday. Ha Ha.
(It took me a week, it shouldn't take you that long)
Have a great day!
Katrina
On Sep 3, 2006, at 11:18 PM, Denis Dodson wrote:
I am home from Busses Nowhere Near the Arch. It was a truly great and unique event, but for me it was Busses Nowhere Near ANYTHING. It is a LONG drive, 8 or 9 hours doing 80 in the truck with Murray on the friggin' trailer again.
I had some family trouble getting away because it was Jan's first week of school and they moved her into a new room which made for an emergency "honey-do" list that was murder. I was dedicated to driving Murray to the BNNTA and so, of course, the alternator quit charging. I have found a new VW mechanic up here with great credentials, and who, as another benefit from living in a small town and not a big city, could drop everything and help me slam this new Bosch in and drive out all the electrical gremlins that I have been fighting for so long. Even so, this was going to take most of the travel day, so I asked if he could work on the bus while it was on the trailer. I was still thinking that I might make it driving up in Murray, but if he was on the trailer I could drop him off and use the truck to finish packing and stuff for the trip. So that was when I ran out of friggin' gas.
Not too bad though, I was within a quarter mile or so of my shop. Took an hour or so of time I didn't have. So I get Murray to the trailer and load him up, drop him at the mechanic's and pack. Now I'm thinking God may not want me to go to BNNTA, but that wasn't it; God wanted me to take the trailer. I had decided that, if I could be on the highway by 6:00 PM, I would still go, but I would need the trailer and truck so I could go 80 or not go. I hit the road at 5:45.
By 10:00 PM I was seeing double and picturing in my mind my spectacular flaming death from falling asleep at the wheel doing 80 with a bus on a trailer and the gasoline truck that had my name on it. Motel time in Lebanon MO.
Don't miss the next engrossing episode where Denis has too many free Jell-O shots at the information booth and Steve and Sharon's Coca Cola bus becomes a trailer Queen. There are photos.
