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Old 04-28-2008, 08:27 AM   #1
Longhorn Man
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Location: Hilliard Ohio
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road trip/parts run/meetin up with members

This is how to enjoy your saturday... a day you are supposed to be at work

Got a mssg from Randy.. aka byrd last week sayin he was cruisin through columbus headed to PA on a parts run, and he'd like to stop and grab lunch with me... or if I was free, I could tag along.
SWEET!
I've been itchin for a road trip! Been more than 6 months now since I had a good one.
So randy gets to town.. and the fun and confusion starts from the get go... he misses his exit where I am waiting for him, so i have to jump on the freeway and do 80 or 90 MPH to catch up to him and guide him to our lunch spot (Culvers... awesome burgers)... but the fun continues when we go to gas up 20 min after leaving, and he realizes that he left his wallet at the burger joint.
This is the first of many U-turns.
Amazingly, his wallet is there.
Other than a few more U-turns, the trip there was uneventfull... BS'in and joking, showing each other cell phone photos of our kids, talkin bad about some members, talkin bout other members we would love to meet, talkin bout the upcoming board meet... the usual board member BS'in.

I haven't been to PA since 02 when i got the longhorn... and I don't think I've ever been to this part of the state. (north west corner)
Here's me and Randy... lookin drunk... or gay... or something.
In all reality, neither of us look like this... this was our stunt doubles.
Yeah, stunt doubles... that's it.

We got to Brian aka burnsman (I think that's right) place... after what seemed like a dozen U turns, and got to look at his toys. Rather impressive toy barn IMO... and his 67 he's getting together looks pretty bad ass IMO. Simple, yet sweet.
Didn't get any photos of the toys... I have no idea why... but I did get a few pics of them putting the parts on the trailer.

Randy on the come-a-long, Brian in the back, and Brian's little assistant on the left. Brian's son was sittin there talking about putting nice rims on one of the projects... kinda had to take a double take on that!

I was wearing a white T-shirt... I stayed away from the work!

Actually, I got in on the loading and strapping, but I wasn't handin over my phone, and no one else was taking photos... so there's no proof other than the big spot of dirt on my noggin that I never saw till i got home.

Didn't stick around very long... had to hit the road, chatted with Brian's wife briefly... her name escapes me now, but I'd forget my own name if it wasn't on my license! Mrs brian seemed like a nice enough woman, and she seemed to think Randy and I were cool... that or she was just being polite!

It was tail lights and tire smoke on the way outta there. It was already like 6 or so, and he still had a lot of freeway between him, and Louisville Ky.

Now, of course, a road trip wouldn't be a road trip without a fuel scare, and this one was no exception. The guage did the typical joke on us, saying 1/4 tank as we left, and like 12 miles down the road it was resting on E... by the time we found a Mountain Dew station that sold gas too, the light was on, and the truck was starting to cuss and protest on the hill pulling up to the parking lot.
I think he said it was a 28 gallon tank, and he put in 27.5? I remember it was like $80 worth.
Stocked up the dew cooler and hit the road.


You know, the trouble with doing a road trip in a new-fangled vehicle... it takes all the adventure out of the trip.
I mean, what fun is it, if you KNOW you'll make it home? Where is the suffering if you push a button and ice cold air comes out the dash vents the moment it gets 3 degrees over comfortable? I don't even know if this thing had a spare tire... we didn't need to use it. I don't understand this... seems... I dunno... too safe or something.

I think Randy was going for a land speed record... but, we never got stopped. (again... where's the fun in that???)

Last photo... and even though i think it is the worst one... it is also the coolest one. We got back to Columbus, and instead of giving directions, and possibly making him do a few more U-turns, I jumped in my truck when he dropped me off at the house, and took him to the local Mountain Dew store so he could get some gas and pointed him in the direction he needed to be going. As he was pulling outta the parking lot, i whipped the phone out, and got real lucky on this photo... 11:23, he's got the thing floored, it's dark, and I'm trying to get this pic with a crap tastic digi-cam with a built in phone.

I got lucky.

Brian, was nice seeing you again... get that truck done man, it's been hidden in there too long!
To Randy... Same thing man, great seeing you again... let us know if you got home OK, and I'll see you in a few months!


Oh yeah... and this was much... MUCH better... than going to work!

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