[tcb] Re: Kat's great trip report. BNNTA news
- From: "Sharon Chamberlain" <iluvvws@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:01:33 -0500
We're home! Just got in. We had a good time but that was a long trip home in
basically one day, we left yesterday at 8am and got home about 10:30, 972
miles. We got a motel room last night and got up at 4 this morn., we saw 7
wrecks from Dallas to Ft worth, very slick. The 3 days of 75 degree perfect
weather was worth every minute - I can't wait for October now. We made a
bunch of new VW friends, weird not to know anyone at a show, saw some cool
buses, beautiful scenery.
Nice to see Denis Sat morn, Ed and Leo from Tulsa never showed we don't know
what happened. We won some nice salt & pepper split shakers at the raffle.
Jan is so sweet she gave me a cool coke alarm clock for my display-wish we
could have stayed longer but my wild kingdom was calling me home.
So Tired.
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From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Katrina Martin
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 10:46 AM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Kat's great trip report. BNNTA news
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.
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