We're back from the coast....the '36 Ranger did fine...need to tighten the adjusting screw on the P/S box.....it's got a little slack since I replaces the o-rings & seals.......
shot of the swimming pool from the balcony...
pic of the truk in front of the motel...........right truck/wrong motel...............
Topher.....wwwwwhy didn't i think of that.............?
The Company that made the aftermarket bodies went out of business, but you can buy an old cab & aftermarkey fenders, etc. to finish it for less than I paid just for the aftermarket cab!
Tomorrow I start my part of the TRS BANNER ACROSS AMERICA....Louisiana Trips.
I get up Saturday morning...(hopefully).....and head north....way up north to Alexandria Egyp......uhhh....Alexandria Louisiana.....
The Louisiana Relay.........
sloppy pic of the speedometer before the trip to Alexandria starts 220,359 miles.
I'll get the Banner from ADSMODEAN there at 2p.m. Saturday....
UPDATE: crossing the Mississippi Ribba at Baton Rouge, La. going West....
a sloppy pic of Baton Rouge...looking up-river toward Natchez Mississippi.....
about 120 miles north of New Orleans--the EASY RIDER cafe which was on the right side of the road was torn down--only a couple old buildings remain in the town of Morganza where the movie was filmed...
Alexandria Louisiana--about 180 miles into the trip---ADSMODEAN will be waiting for me wit da Banner!!!!
I........uhhhhh.......He.....found me....we glued the Banner to the '36 Ranger windshield......
speedometer pic at the relay site..........
ASDMODEAN like the truck--so i sold it to him for $500 and he threw in the last bridge i took a picture of......He told me--just sign below my name to make the sale Official.....
it all happened so fast---here i am tryin not to cry......
It's 2 hours since Shreveport...now I'm in Natchez Miss. which borders Louisiana.....
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....Political correctness claims another landmark......this Lady was a black lady in 1955 when my parents took me here to eat pancakes covered with cane syrup...she was the fore-runner of Ihop back in the day......good pancakes.......great cook/chef......(this is an internet pic/photobucket deleted all original pics)
DAT BE IT UNTIL TOMORROW WHEN I GOES BY THE SOOOOOOOOOPA DOME ON THE WAY TO HOUMA lOUISIANA TO MEET FORDMAN4X492 & THE OTHER MEMBERS.
I'm heading back to my house to get some sleep!
Day 2 of the Relay.........
Tagggggggggggggggg......i'm it!
Again......Waaahahaha
O.K........It's tomorrow--which would be today, Sunday.....I started at the Sooooopa Dome, but the thang is so big i couldn't get but a slice at a time with the '36 in front of it....I circled it a couple times (no...not from the interstate), but no TRS guys flagged me down....here's a hi-way shotthru the windshield Miss-sippi bugs & all.....
(lost the pic)
WHAT? SOMEBODY found it for me!
all-right........i'm heading soutwest from New Orleans across the neck-deep/alligator snappin/water moccasin infested/mosquitoe inhalin'/pride & joy of the south........Louisiana swamps (pronounced: swam-pssssssss )..........
of course you notice the road is elevated to keep the big ones from sleeping on the warm concrete at nite.....
you see that big bug splatter on the right side of the pic......I nearly had to run off the road to hit that one
I made it to Houma.....Tiliob...was waiting for me with his friend.......
Noooooo.......not the truck.......wrong pic........
here's fordman4x492 with his dad in i-forgot-Louisiana......
Berwick......yeah........Berwick LA>.................(by now i'm too dizzy/LA. asphalt bouncin' drunk to realize he ain't lookin at the camera.......)
Up the road another hour to Lafayette LA. to see bad-------bad-------baddad & his little white monster...He's signing while me & cajunman is watchin for poleece....
here's cajunman signing his tru.........name on the Banner.........
nuff ridin for 2 dazes.............i'm going back to the house ........
WOMAN!!! GIVE ME TWO PILLOWS.....I mean.....TWO PILLZ!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!
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