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I'm gonna add stuff as I figure out how to do-it....Waaaaaaaahahahahhaaa
pics to be aDDED LATER
(jest for the record):
905 miles........
46 gallons of gas.......
1 qt. of oil........
4 stops at Sonics......
1 stop in the weeds......
1 "Get-off-my-property!......
about 20 pics....
2 dead skunks....
1 car on fire--totaled....
three dead racoons....
1 dead deer....
3 Jesus freaks....
0 flats....
2 bags of MnM's........
1 grass fire....
17 hours of drivin....
3 hours of yakkin' with great members....
61 times around the Super Dome (******* TOMTOM piece of *****)....
everything else is kinda blurry---had to do without drugs whilst drivin.....
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**********Day 2 of the Relay.........Tagggggggggggggggg......i'm it! Again......Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa************
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.....
here's the slice................................................
another lil slice....................................
time to get a shot of the speedometer before I leave New Orleans.......I's up to about 580 miles....over half-way..........
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.....
yep.....another bridge.....if i had known they was still connecting the suspension cables on the other end of it---i'da tooken the ferryboat.....
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 special friend.......
Noooooo.......not the truck.......wrong pic........
O.K. People.......lean back in your chairs at least 2 feet........so your eyeballs don't hit the coputer screen!
O.K........everybody leanin back???? Her......oooops........HERE goes........
BAM!!!!! another one!!!!!
mo bridges means mo members.........
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 back at home........WOMAN!!! GIVE ME TWO PILLOWS.....I mean.....TWO PILLZ!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!
NOTE: The preceding events may or may not have happened...
The individuals involved were all paid actors...
I wish i would have left that 3" of extra travel in the front end.....
My thanks to all the folks who did not make fun of me (to my face).
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GULF COAST WEEKEND TRIPS END-OF SUMMER 2010
Here's some pics of the Gulf Coast weekend trip to Biloxi, Miss-sippi & Gulf Shores, Florida.....
O.K.......I got one pic before we left LA. and a few pics along the beach on the way back home (lost the good ones to stupiedity).....
'36 getting ready to leave for Gulf Coast......
OHHHHHHHHH-No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o........I-10 runs directly into the Gulf of Mexico at the end of Mississippi!!!!
Well the highway went out about 200 feet into the Gulf & circled back to Mississsippi......
It aint a Sonic Drive-In, but I guess we'll eat lunch here......
End of the first day at Beau Rivage hotel next to the Hardrock cafe....
Naturally a Sonic Drive-Inn is involved for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks....
A night shot that didn't get deleted.....
A fast pic next to the beach....no tar-balls on the beach for a month.......
A lighthouse in Gulfport Miss,...............................................
Well....my "Boss" made me drive her SUV on the second weekend trip to the beach.....(she said I had enuff fun putting 900 miles on the Ranger when I was escorting the TRS Ranger Banner around Loo-z-anna.....)
Thaaaat's myyyy b-o-a-tttt........Not!
Thaaaat's myyyyy i-s-l-a-n-dddd......Not!
That ain't my summer house either....
more pics later....
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THE DAY BEFORE MARDI GRAS--NEW ORLEANS--2011.....a few pics in a hurry....
Here's a few pre-Mardi Gras 2011 New orleans pics......downtown and the expressway......where else can you go and pass 8 Mardi Gras floats on the Interstate....(I couldn't drive & focus fast enuff----check out the side view mirror....)
getting into the downtown area......Bourbon Street was blocked off for the parades at night......
here's a nice lookin house..........
buildings make good bill-boards in N.O...........................
Some of dem French Quarter balconies to watch the night parades from as dey pass by......
nice little hotel.................
talk about a real Clown...........
Das it for the New Orleeeeens pics......I'll have to spend a day takin pics.........
pics to be aDDED LATER
(jest for the record):
905 miles........
46 gallons of gas.......
1 qt. of oil........
4 stops at Sonics......
1 stop in the weeds......
1 "Get-off-my-property!......
about 20 pics....
2 dead skunks....
1 car on fire--totaled....
three dead racoons....
1 dead deer....
3 Jesus freaks....
0 flats....
2 bags of MnM's........
1 grass fire....
17 hours of drivin....
3 hours of yakkin' with great members....
61 times around the Super Dome (******* TOMTOM piece of *****)....
everything else is kinda blurry---had to do without drugs whilst drivin.....
.
.The Louisiana Relay.........
sloppy pic of the speedometer before the trip to Alexandria starts.....I'll get the Banner from ADSMODEAN there at 2p.m. Saturday....
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UPDATE: crossing the Mississippi Ribba at Baton Rouge Louisiana.......
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a pic of Baton Rouge...looking up-river toward Natchez Mississippi.....
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about 120 miles north of New Orleans--the EASY RIDER cafe was torn down--only a couple old buildings remain in the town of Morganza where the movie was filmed...
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about 150 miles from into the trip--crossing the Atchafalaya River--supposed to be one of the deepest rivers in the world???
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looking up-river at some rusted out train-bridge.........
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another river---crossing over it into Alexandria Louisiana--about 180 miles into the trip---ADSMODEAN will be waiting for me on the other side wit da Banner!!!!
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I........uhhhhh.......He.....found me....we glued the Banner to the '36 Ranger windshield......
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speedometer pic at the relay site..........
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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.....
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here he is beside his new truk.............................
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it all happened so fast---here i am tryin not to cry......
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Man! He keeps changin the way he spells his name!!!!
I really think it snowed about 20 minute before I passed this field on my way back thru Natchez Miss-sippi........
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i thought this was my house----i was wr...wr....wrong......it belonged to the town sheriff--he showed me how to get back on the black-top.....
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2 hours after me & ASMODEAN say goodbye.....I get to Natchez....it got 2 bridges--i'm pretty sure both of em is for leavin Louisiana in a hurry....
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somehow i zigged when i shoulda...................guess i crossed the wrong bridge..........
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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......
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DAT BE IT UNTIL TOMORROW WHEN I GOES BY THE SOOOOOOOOOPA DOME ON THE WAY TO HOUMA lOUISIANA TO MEET FORDMAN4X492 & THE OTHER MEMBERS......
**********Day 2 of the Relay.........Tagggggggggggggggg......i'm it! Again......Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa************
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.....




here's the slice................................................

another lil slice....................................

time to get a shot of the speedometer before I leave New Orleans.......I's up to about 580 miles....over half-way..........

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.....

yep.....another bridge.....if i had known they was still connecting the suspension cables on the other end of it---i'da tooken the ferryboat.....

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 special friend.......

Noooooo.......not the truck.......wrong pic........
O.K. People.......lean back in your chairs at least 2 feet........so your eyeballs don't hit the coputer screen!
O.K........everybody leanin back???? Her......oooops........HERE goes........

BAM!!!!! another one!!!!!

mo bridges means mo members.........

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 back at home........WOMAN!!! GIVE ME TWO PILLOWS.....I mean.....TWO PILLZ!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!

NOTE: The preceding events may or may not have happened...
The individuals involved were all paid actors...
I wish i would have left that 3" of extra travel in the front end.....
My thanks to all the folks who did not make fun of me (to my face).
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GULF COAST WEEKEND TRIPS END-OF SUMMER 2010
Here's some pics of the Gulf Coast weekend trip to Biloxi, Miss-sippi & Gulf Shores, Florida.....
O.K.......I got one pic before we left LA. and a few pics along the beach on the way back home (lost the good ones to stupiedity).....
'36 getting ready to leave for Gulf Coast......

OHHHHHHHHH-No-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o........I-10 runs directly into the Gulf of Mexico at the end of Mississippi!!!!

Well the highway went out about 200 feet into the Gulf & circled back to Mississsippi......

It aint a Sonic Drive-In, but I guess we'll eat lunch here......

End of the first day at Beau Rivage hotel next to the Hardrock cafe....

Naturally a Sonic Drive-Inn is involved for breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks....

A night shot that didn't get deleted.....

A fast pic next to the beach....no tar-balls on the beach for a month.......

A lighthouse in Gulfport Miss,...............................................

Well....my "Boss" made me drive her SUV on the second weekend trip to the beach.....(she said I had enuff fun putting 900 miles on the Ranger when I was escorting the TRS Ranger Banner around Loo-z-anna.....)
Thaaaat's myyyy b-o-a-tttt........Not!

Thaaaat's myyyyy i-s-l-a-n-dddd......Not!

That ain't my summer house either....

more pics later....
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THE DAY BEFORE MARDI GRAS--NEW ORLEANS--2011.....a few pics in a hurry....
Here's a few pre-Mardi Gras 2011 New orleans pics......downtown and the expressway......where else can you go and pass 8 Mardi Gras floats on the Interstate....(I couldn't drive & focus fast enuff----check out the side view mirror....)

getting into the downtown area......Bourbon Street was blocked off for the parades at night......

here's a nice lookin house..........

buildings make good bill-boards in N.O...........................

Some of dem French Quarter balconies to watch the night parades from as dey pass by......

nice little hotel.................

talk about a real Clown...........

Das it for the New Orleeeeens pics......I'll have to spend a day takin pics.........
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