[tcb] Re: TRIP REPORT!
- From: "Andrew Barnes" <deabarnes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 15:28:08 -0500
sounds like a good trip , Dennis . The part in McAlester about the Itailian
grocery / meat market ,very good little store ,next time you go throw there I
highly recommend to stop at Pete's Place very good Itailian food ,make there
own beer (good/stout) not to hi on price and if you leave hungry , it's your
own damn fault!! The top & luggage area of the westy is getting ready to go to
the Paint shop . ready to get it back together
Drew
----- Original Message -----
From: Denis Dodson
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:52 AM
Subject: [tcb] TRIP REPORT!
So, I left my house, (the leaves were just starting to come out making a
kinda green mist throughout the woods. Bufreakingcolic.) , got ice and beer for
the trip and hit the highway. I decided to top off the tank at Ft. Smith (only
about 1 1/2 hours from home, I was standing next to the fuel door on my truck
with the nozzle when the damn think did not click off when the tank was full. I
was sprayed with gas from about chest down and the f#@%&! thing was still
pumping when I pulled it out. I got some new clothes out, trying not to touch
anything too much, and stormed in to the little Quickie Mart ready to scream
and maybe punch somebody, but it wasn't going to be the 65 year old minimum
wage lady that was at the counter.
I tied to rinse the gas off of me in the crappy tiny gas station restroom and
realized that I was contaminated, toxic, a fire hazard. I should have orange
cones around me. Time for the hotel, laundry and shower.
End of day one. I had gone 67 miles. 613 miles to go.
Not much else happened all the rest of the way except that, to let everybody
know, do NOT try to find an address in Austin TX at 5:30! Especially towing a
full length trailer with a bus on it.
When I got to the campgrounds I had lots of help getting Murray off the
trailer. It was like the Simpsons episode where Bart hired Milhouse as a
watchman. All the knuckleheads watched as I drove one wheel off the ramp. There
were enough knuckleheads watching that we could lift that corner and put the
ramp under the wheel.
The three night campout/marathon was great. You were, pretty much all there,
so you know how that was. Bodean taking Big Balls' fastback for a spin through
the water was funny. especially when he was coming back. He stopped, backed up
and then splashed through the water. All this with Steve standing next to me,
cursing. Bodean seemed to drive everyone's car. Then somebody stole his. "Who
took it?" He says. Not "Where is it?"
The trip home took me days because I stopped at Chuck's house and got his big
arc welder, then drove in to Dallas, shopped and spent a night. On the way home
I found a true authentic Italian meat market and store in McAlester, OK. I have
lived in New York City and Hartford, Connecticut, both with huge Italian
populations, so I know authentic and this one was pretty good. The history is
that there was a large Italian population based on coal mining 100 years ago in
McAlester. Who'd'athunk it?
My only excitement on the way home was coming through a construction area I
was doing about 30 MPH on a very narrow two lane service road when huge monster
construction machine came out and took one and a half lanes. I swerved a bit,
enough to cause the wheels of the trailer to jump the curve. I looked in the
rear view just in time to see the bus land back on the trailer, the ass end
about 6" to one side.
I was going to get out and kick this guy's ass, but I wouldn't know how to
make him come down from his two story machine and then, if I had, he would
probably pinch my screaming head like a grape. So I let him go.
Honestly one of the highlights of my life and about the nicest thing ever
done for me was the People's Choice award rigged so that I was just about the
only person on the planet that could win it. I am sure that Sharon was the
great mind behind it, Steve doesn't like me that much, but all you other
knotheads went along with it. And the feeling when everyone cheered when I won
it was terrific and I truly appreciate it.
Funny story, after someone had shown me the ballot I found one on a table and
took it to the box. I looked at #9, which was mine, AND THEY HAD VOTED FOR
SOMEONE ELSE!
Lucky I squeezed out that win.
Next up, (drum roll) PSYCOBILLY 4! RED WHITE AND PSYCOBLOOIE!!!
Chuck, the head of the Explosives committee, went to a showing on the 29th
where this guy shows his fireworks available for this year. All special license
and stuff. It may be an awesome show. Pray for rain up till the First of July,
'cuz if it is too dry and we get a burn ban Dan will have to fire them from a
rowboat in the lake
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