[tcb] Re: DAC Classic Trip Report
- From: wuzmop@xxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:11:22 +0000
I'm tellin ya. It was the shizzle.
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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!
>
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