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Thanks to all who participated on this
journey:
David & Becky Clark
Sam & Linda DeNeault
Vince & Cindy Dumas
Robert & Cydnie Geyer
Ron & Connie McCrary
Bob & Linda Rocket
Ron Spurlock & Leslie Mello
Of course, Bill Tichy who did the heavy lifting in planning.
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| SPECIAL THANKS to Larry Dyer
for all the commentary and to David, Becky, Robert, Cyndie, Fred, and
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Tuesday August 27. Our
trip started out at the ungodly hour of 5:15 Note: for those who don’t
know me, I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON. When I left my home it was still
dark, and cool, driving with the window down. I was heading north
towards Texas Motor Speedway because I was meeting up with the first
group at the QT gas station across from the speedway. Halfway there the
sky opened and poured down rain in buckets.
Met up with the Cowtown Club members and
headed North to Denton to meet the Legends members. (Just to let you
know, originally Shawn was to leave Winstar at 9:00, but then realized
he wouldn’t get us to Little Rock in time, so he moved the depart time
to 8:00). Got together then back onto 35 heading to Winstar Casino to
meet up with the North Texas Caravan. About a mile on 35 I looked in the
rearview mirror to see the taillights of Vince Dumas’ car, I thought ‘oh
s**t that’s not good’. I pulled over to see if they were OK. A little
shaken up but they were alright. Vince suggested we go ahead, and
he’ll catch up. We got to Winstar meeting up with the caravan.
We drove to Little Rock arriving at Bale
Chevrolet for snacks and social gathering, along with a few hundred more
Corvettes. Vince and Cindy Dumas met up with us at the hotel we had
booked many months ago. The problem was this hotel, even though
recommend by the NCM was not where we stayed. Everyone had some sort of
complaint about their room and we had to find other accommodations.
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Wednesday August 28th. We gathered at Bale
Chevrolet again for coffee and donuts. At 9:00 we began our exit with the
Little Rock Police blocking traffic all the way to the highway. After a
few stops for potty breaks and lunch we arrived in Nashville a little
after the museum closed so we just found our hotel and settled in for the
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Friday August 30th.
Still Bill hadn’t been to the museum, so he and I went back and
walked around to a less crowded Museum. Took forever to get back to hotel
because of a bad truck accident which had occurred around 2:00 a.m.
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Saturday August 31st.
Headed out of Nashville towards Mammoth Caves National Park. Met up with Sam
and Linda DeNeault along with Bob and Linda Rocket. We did a small tour
before leaving and heading to Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Sunday
September 1st.
Arrived at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the self-guided tour of the
museum, then the “Kiss the Bricks” tour. This was riding around the
track with a guide pointing out points of interest and stopping at the
yard of bricks. We had our picture taken kissing the bricks. Note: we
were originally going to do the tour of the garage area but because
NASCAR was going to be racing there the following weekend we couldn’t.
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Monday September 2nd.
Arrived at the Gilmore Museum, what a fantastic place! The only thing more
beautiful than the grounds were the cars on display. The staff there was
very knowledgeable and answered all questions. We ate lunch in an old diner
type structure originally from Median, CT. They allowed us to drive our cars
onto the grounds for some picture taking in front of an old-style Shell gas
station. Not everyone wanted to leave because we had not seen everything
there, but we did head out and arrive in Ludington, MI.
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