[tcb] Re: TRIP REPORT!
- From: KatrinaMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 15:38:02 -0500
Great trip report!
Katrina & Dan Martin
71'bus "Homer"
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----- Original Message -----
From: Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, May 1, 2006 9:53 am
Subject: [tcb] TRIP REPORT!
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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