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Yeah, me too. It just ain't the same.

Here's a few of many pictures I took at the greatest truck show on earth in Macungie, Pa. Some BMT members who just happened to be around the Watt's Mack tent around noon-ish. Here's the chef getting some cooking tips from master chef Jumper and son...I guess they're cooking tips. Then she went solo chef-ing anyway. Here's just a very few of the trucks, Dave Mitchell said there were over 900 trucks there. I'll have more pictures when I get home, and i'll post a link to Flickr when I post them.

Hmmm...I think you coulda' plugged that tire and made it back to the shop.

I saw those trucks!

So, who's going, if anyone? I'm loading up this rental car with stuff now. Me and Zina from Gladys, formerly known as Zina from Florida, are going and her sister Vicki from Florida is flying up too- imagine that. I'll prolly be hanging out over around the yellow fire trucks when I'm not walking around. I don't know if there will be any 1958 FWD fire trucks there. I, uhh...we...we got a stroller for the dog to ride in. He gets over-heated easily and he would duck under every few trucks he walked by in Harrisonburg to get in the shade. So, I might not be pushing a dog in a stroller, but what the hell, maybe I will be. We got another dog, and yeah, we spoil the heck out of him. But if anybody is around, my no. is 434-664-7847.

I was there too!

I tried to find that on Google earth but couldn't. I watched a YouTube video of a truck on the "million dollar highway" the other day, that was a pretty wild ride.

thank you Vlad.

That's right, as I was telling Wayne Ellis at the Harrisonburg show, a young man who owns 3 trucks, an R model, a 9300 IH, and his daily driver work truck, a '98 (I think) W900 that's putting over 600hp. to the ground, it was just different when I was his age, about 40 years ago. Back then, I drove a couple of trucks with 290hp. Cummins in them, then a VT 903 with 320hp, then a 285hp. 300 Mack, then 350's, and on and on. But everybody else had the same thing, the speed limit was 55 mph, and all was good, we got it done- with no engine brakes, power steering, satellite radio, or smart phones.

Here's a couple of pictures that I posted previously, one is a set of XPO Logistics doubles and the other is where I thought I saw a groundhog on the shoulder...but maybe I didn't.

Zina said "hi Vlad!"

We're coming Wednesday because we're picking Vicki from Florida up at the Allentown Airport at 10 pm. She goes back at 6am Sunday morning, so we'll be there all that time. Maybe we can meet up for dinner or something.

OK Vlad, I'll tell her. It'll be nice when you can come to Macungie again.

So I could have gotten a show pass for $50 because I'm an ATHS member, even though I wasn't showing a truck? Would that have included Zina from Gladys? If it didn't the $15 a day for 3 days was cheaper.

Yep, same here. I have a Samsung phone now and I can't complain about the smart phone, because if I hadn't gotten it I probably wouldn't have re-connected with Zina from Gladys, formerly known as Zina from Florida, and originally known as Zina from Connecticut. But, with all that being said, the best phone I ever had was my old Motorola flip phone. As for the tall gear shifts- I don't get it either. I've seen guys where I used to work get a brand new W-9 and put those 5 foot gear shifts in them first thing, before they ever hit the road. Grown ass men too, it just makes no sense to me.

This was the first time I've had to pay to go to a truck show. Usually they will just ask for a donation, and I usually give $20. At Winchester it's for the local food bank, but it's not a mandatory thing. At Harrisonburg we paid $90 for both of us for 3 days. Not unreasonable for what you get I don't guess, which is getting to see all those trucks, but it was totally unexpected.

Wow, i'm glad you're both OK. I couldn't see the pictures on my phone, but I can on the computer.

You're welcome. Here's some of the dignitaries I saw, Freightrain, Underdog, maint1, Brocky. That's Zina from Gladys, formerly known as Zina from Florida, in the picture with Brocky when she ran into him at the Cracker Barrel.

Yes, I posted a picture of whatever it said on there. Nice souvenirs though, I guess. I had the one picture of a chock that was propped in front of the tire and it looked like it had pushed into the tire an inch or more. They were just a little piece of 4x4, I'm sure they were mainly for show instead of actually being capable of stopping a truck from rolling off.

Yes! They had a lot of golf carts there too, they were everywhere! You could rent a golf cart, but even Tony Youngblood was complaining about how expensive they were- he said they were $150 a day, but I heard others say they were $100, which is still pretty steep. I guess if you split it 2 or 3 or 4 ways it's not bad though.

Yep, we're planning on being in Macungie too. I might wear my BMT T shirt, and a floppy hat. Zina's sister, Vicki from Florida, is coming too.

Well, Zina from Gladys, formerly known as Zina from Florida, asked me if I had snuck in any pictures of wimmens. I said "of course not (😁), but if one just happened to be in the picture I didn't crop them out either". So I'm always looking to find the "wimmens beside a truck" picture. Old habits die hard they say.

I wore a baseball cap the first day, then I switched to my "Gregg Hoffman hat" (Underdog) but I still ended up with a sunburn on my neck. I might have to bring my Florida hat to Macungie, that's a little bigger and even more floppy. I think I need a Sombrero.

I made it to the ATHS National Show and Convention for the first time ever. It was in Harrisonburg, about 2 hrs. from here. I saw a lot of trucks I had never seen before, and some BMT members too. All the pictures are here, just click on the picture- Here are some of the many Macks- This is one of the best looking i've seen- this one too-