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Same guy went to Martinsville with us several times. He'd stay over and sleep on the couch the night before so we could get an early start. The bottom 7 rows on the backstretch were all unreserved seats, so we usually left around 7am to get a good spot. I had to go to the Dew Drop Inn in Appomattox and retrieve him a few times on Saturday night so he could go, and not make us late. He liked to drink...anyway, he came over one Saturday night before the race. I had already packed my cooler, had some beer, a few diet Mountain Dews for my wife, ice, and I made 2 or 3 tuna salad sammiches and had them right on top. The race started at 1pm I think, and we got there several hours early to get the best unreserved seats, and to avoid traffic of course. After sitting a while I thought i'd get me a sammich...opened the cooler...can't find any. Hmmmm...I put them right on top...wtf?...dig through the ice...beer...sodas...no tuna sammiches. Well, I must have imagined making those tuna sammiches and putting them in the cooler. Had to go get some of the famous Martinsville hot dogs. He didn't say anything at first, but he finally said "I ate your sandwiches" I said "why did you eat my sammiches?" he said "well,I got hungry last night,so I ate them" I said "no problem, but if you'd told me I could have made more". I was a little pissed off at the time, but we got a lot of laughs about it later. I kinda lost contact with him after a few years, he got married, had several children. I heard he passed away a few years ago.

Thank you, they were very good, I just put some of my home made rub on them and poured about a cup of my home made vinegar based barbecue sauce over it after I pulled it apart.

I was kidding, I have no idea where I might be then either. I could tell them I don't care where I go that week as long as it's nowhere near Pittsburgh, then i'd probably get a load going to Pittsburgh...usually works.

My wife and I used to go to Charlotte to the World 600 every Memorial Day weekend in the mid-80's to early 90's. They used to say the pre-race activities were worth the price of admission, we always had a great time. One year some other people from Appomattox went and they camped in the infield. We always stayed at a motel in Lexington, most of the motels closer to Charlotte jacked the rates up about 3 times the usual rate on race weekend. One of the guys had either borrowed or rented a van. Had windows in the back with blinds in them. Several of them went out to some club in Charlotte the night before the race, and the guy with the van picked up some girl there and brought her back to the party in the infield. Before everybody turned in for the night another one in the group had the brilliant idea to get in the van and open those blinds. I heard later that they all got quite a show when the guy and girl spent the night in the van. They even called over strangers that happened to be passing by the next morning- " hey y'all, come look at this!" They were still sleeping, nekkid as jaybirds, and everybody around was looking and laughing. Another time a friend went with us, and after Saturday's race I said "if you want more beer for tomorrow's race we'd better get it now". he said "that's all right, I don't need beer, let's go eat." The next morning we fought the traffic, got to the track, made our way to our seats, race was minutes from starting, he says "eff this, I need a beer!" So he takes a cooler, walks out of the speedway to a store back down rt. 29 about half a mile or so away from the track. By the time he got back the race was well under way. He said people were hollering "hey dumbass,the race track is the other way" at him as he was walking to the store. But he got his beer.

Amen to what Ed said, first off. I cooked a pig yesterday- well, not a whole pig but almost enough parts to build a pig. Cleaned out the freezer last weekend and got out 3 boston butts that had been in there a long time. They looked fine though. They're in the smoker, 4:30 am. They looked like this at 11:00 am. Look about like this now- I couldn't catch the chipmunk...

No, I usually go past the rest area and sleep on the ramp at the Kirby exit. Nice and quiet unless someone backs into you. But no, I didn't stop there at all last week.

Here's a miscellaneus truck. I don't know what it is, but it's neat looking.

Looks great, if i'm anywhere in the area and can park a truck nearby i'm gonna try to stop in.

I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head.

see, there's one right there ^ .................................

makes me wonder just how far the corruption goes- if you click "like" on a conservative or anti gun control facebook page or even a post, does that increase your chances of an audit?..who knows...

Oh yeah, that's right. My favorite part of that movie is the Scout they were driving.

Yeah, my son is going to see ZZ Top too, another one of my favorite bands. I't's kinda nice that he likes classic rock instead what they call music now.

I've heard the flatcar story since i've been driving too. Heard it was in California, Arizona, and Texas, maybe a few more states.

Anything going here yet? I'll donate what I can to the cause too.

I'm in Gladys,Va. Actually i'm about halfway between Gladys and Altavista. Here's some pictures, I can't figure out how to put a direct link to Google Earth.

My youngest son went to see Rush a while ago, and this is some of his photoshop work...totally different than my poorly photochopped pictures. That's my grand son on stage with them.

Picked up this girl hitchhiking to Winfall the other day. She layed the seat back... took off her shirt... then her pants...then she put her feet up and said "we don't have to go straight to Winfall, do we"? I said "git your feets offa that dashboard, I just Armoralled it a couple of weeks ago"!

That's why I didn't call, you weren't there.

It's posted as a 15mph. curve, I just ease around it. You can look out the passenger window from about where this picture was taken and see the road below. If anybody's coming the other way I just stop until they get around the curve. It drops away pretty steep too and the tires on the front axle of the trailer will be completely off the ground coming around it. I've been around it with a 53' van with the tandems slid forward a good bit and drug the rear bumper on the pavement all the way around it. I put a little video of it on youtube a few years ago, but I was headed west then, still driving the Peterbilt.

It was kind of late, I went up 99 to 350 to 80 going to Brockport, then went to Alliance and loaded firebrick and came through Canton on the way back.

glad I wasn't drinking coffee when I scrolled down to this, or i'd be heading to the Wal-Mart store to get a new keyboard!

I'll keep an eye out for them so I can throw out the welcome mat when they get here.

It's been raining most of the week, but I got a few snapshots in between storms. Here's some old units sitting in the field. These are all on rt.29, north of Amherst, Va. where I went to look at that Case tractor for Rob. Don't know if they're for sale or anything else about them really. I took a load of cinder block mats to Brockport, Pa. to the Whetstone Dam project. Turned off rt. 153 onto a dirt road... long ways back there... almost 2 miles. passed Cookie Joe's, which was apparently established in 2005. All I saw was this sign propped on a plastic chair. My directions said unload after you passed a stand of big pine trees, this must be them. That other truck getting unloaded down there was a clue too. Saw this well dressed driver at the Sheetz at exit 97 on 80. He might be wearing shorts and sandals, but he's got the tuxedo T-shirt thing going on. I saw a well dressed girl in a car too. Some road construction equipment in West Virginia. The curve at Chimney Corners. A Commercial Steel Erection Sterling hauling an R model. Then I saw another girl in another car. I only took a picture because she had a KW emblem in her lap at first, must be a KW fan I guess. Traffic lined up creeping up Afton Mtn. about 10 mph. The right lane was closed up ahead for construction. They're putting up avalanche walls. Looks pretty nice on the west side of the mountain, it was rainy all the way from Richmond to the top of the hill, as seen in the rear view mirror. Traffic was pretty heavy on 64 and 81 yesterday, glad i'm not out there today. ...until I went 64 west from Lexington, then it wasn't bad. This is from North Mtn, heading west. This is going down the other side of North Mtn, looking towards West Virginia. I took a small mill roll to Milton, W.V. This big one I brought back wouldn't fit in the steel rack it was in, so I had to set up coil racks to put it in. Saw this girl walking down 501 on the way home. She should really get some sensible shoes if she does a lot of walking. I saw a broke down car about a half mile before I saw her, but I didn't get a picture of it.

meanwhile, in Nevada...