Next year you can print the !@#$% shirts yourself! Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: yea, well, i forgot to mention in my trip report about the rioting and pilleging due to the lack of psychoblooie shirts. >From: a1992cabbygirl@xxxxxxxxxxxx >Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [tcb] Re: psychoblooie ROCKS!!!! (trip report) >Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:42:04 -0400 > >I guess now that I am being called a loser, I guess Mark and I will now >ENJOY?wearing our t-shirts before anyone else!? So ha ha to you, Brian.? >And I was NOT going to miss The Police, even for missing a great party! > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brian Denning >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 8:51 am >Subject: [tcb] psychoblooie ROCKS!!!! (trip report) > > >well for the losers that formed an anti psychoblooie party and don't know >of all the fun that was had here is the trip report from me:? >? >Friday:? >? >i left hot springs at 1:30 with my wonderful map quest map in hand. i drove >the senic highway 7 through the ouachita mountains and valleys. average >speed was about 45. some hills were topped at 25. but the route was well >worth it when you get on the peaks of the hills and see the mysterious blue >haze that everyone who comes here talks about. my highway 7 route dumped me >onto interstate 40 in russelville by the nuclear reactor. i drove on the >interestate for about 40 miles all the way to ozark, arkansas. there i got >on highway 23. this highway is friggin' awesome if you have a motor cycle, >a really fast sports car that handles great or one of those skateboard >lookin' things that folks lay on and go down steep ass hills. i had none of >those, i had a vw bus. 56HP OF FURY!!!! highway 23 is the curviest, >hilliest windiest road ever known to exist. it goes through the ozark >mountains. it is one of these roads where when you look to the right you >see where you were and you look to y > our left you see where you are going to be shortley, you look behind you >you see a 180degree curve you look infront and are comming up on a 180 >degree curve. it was a fun drive on 23 but i never got out of second gear >and the bikers were pissed at me. that put me on 16 which was a nice >straight road then from 16 i got onto some county road then got on 45 then >got on another county road and drove along side beaver lake for a bit. then >i got to 412 the knob hill.? >? >now for those who don't know denis' house beartrap road is a pain to find >so i was driving down knob hill and i was looking for it and i saw what i >thought was it but i looked infront of me and was like wow look at all >those busses. i wonder what's going on up here. so i stop. oh yea that's >right i am going to a tcb party and those are tcbers. the drive caused me >to forget what i was doing due to all the beautiful scenery. so i stop hug >all the lovely ladies...and some of the lovely guys. (duncan should feel >honored right now) and i "helped" katrina watch an alternator be put on >homer. we visited for a long time we looked at the bus that chuck now >officially gets and we then went down to the house. i parked in the back >and popped the top and made the bed and cracked open a cold one and we hung >out. we ate some wonderful enchiladas (thanks sharon and bev and jan) and >the best damn guacamolie ever. i hate guacamolie and i went for seconds it >was so friggin' good. good job on wh > oever made that. and i also ate some tamales, i can live off of tamales >so i was pretty excited that there were some to be had. chad, kim and rian >and dylan show up along with others, i just can't remember what others >because of the cold ones. i passed out at like 11p.m. and slept kind of >restless (way to go duncan) some other folks showes up at 3 a.m. and >evidently it was exciting. oh well i at least i wasn't being smoked like >pig...we'll let andy tell you about that one.? >? >SATURDAY:? >i woke up at 6a.m. took a nice hot shower in the outdoor shower with all >the dogs staring at me through the window. threw on some clothes drank lots >of coffee. we ate breakfast which consisted of beetle and bus shaped >pancakes, blueberry pancakes, eggs and sausages (thanks steve for cooking >the pancakes, and dan for the sausage) we sat around visited discussed the >rainbow people etc. went up to the shop for a bit, chad and rian drove the >autostick ghia. went back to the house ate some yummy sandwiches.? >? >fastforward a few hours. DAC shows up. bbg mike tries to take out all the >body work i did on the bus, i was almost in tears, along with a few others >that had seen the body work. thank god he missed it. we had a byos party >(build your own shishkabob) and ate some yummy corn on the cob (neil said >the corn must of been a favorite judgin by the portapoty) then we sat >around and waited on the fireworks.? >? >9:00p.m. FIREWORK TIME!!!! chuck won the bus the fireworks were awesome. >our show was much better then the folks to the left of us. we had wirly >gigs, and big dogs, and kabooms in all different colors. my funny sentence >for the evening was "fireworks are like crack, a hundred dollars will only >get you high for like 5 minutes" dan bodean and the real fred shot >fireworks. i sat in the yard like a mountain person with a bear in one hand >and corn on the cob in the other. YEEE HAW!!!! afterwards we visited for a >while and i crashed around 12. it rained that night and i think everyone >slept like a little baby. i have never camped in my bus before and i will >have to say the rain hitting the fiberglass top was very soothing. infact, >i am getting sleepy typing this up right now.? >? >SUNDAY:? >? >woke up around 8ish took a shower (no audience this time) drank lots of >coffee hugged DAC said all my good by's visited for a little bit longer >went up to the shop to get some parts that stephen had dropped off for me >met neil and we convoyed to little rock. another first for me was convoying >somewhere. it was awesome. once elizabeth said i could go on they needed a >pee break but i told them i was having a blast following so we took 412 to >I540 we drove through the through the tunnel...second time i have done that >and the second time i have done that in a bus. the got on to i40 and >stopped for gas, i discovered i lost a hubcap somewhere...oh well i have >more. then when the road split between 40 east and i 30 south we split up >and waved good by. the rest of the trip was uneventful i topped the hill at >50. for those who don't know about the hill the hill is this steep ass hill >that comes off teh arkansas river bridge the first time i topped it in the >bus i topped it going 35 in > the middle land passing a semi. got home took another shower and crashed >on the couch..i still need to unpack.? >? >DENIS AND FRIENDS:? >? >thanks for the open invitation. this was the most amazing gettogether ever. >andy told me "see what your missing out on" and i totally agree. i spent >$50 and had an unforgettable weekend. you guys are great, the food was >great, the fireworks were great, the scenery is absolutely breathtaking. >thanks denis and jan for allowing us to come up there and party down. >thanks steve and sharon for takign care of us like you usually do. thanks >paul for making sure the girls made it to and from the peircing place safe. >i had a blast and i am forcing diana to come to the next one so she can see >how much fun can be had too.? >? >i don't think i can say it enough thanks for the good time that was had by >all. you guys rock. and i can't wait to see other trip reports.? >? >now i have to get back to work.? >? >_________________________________________________________________? >Who's that on the Red Carpet? 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