This is from Rob, on my email account this AM
Larry
Begin forwarded message:
> The day started from Staten Island pretty good. We had to play a
> photo version of Snooker. instead of "billiard balls".. we had to
> take pictures of different colored cars. First a red car... then a
> car of a different color (any color)... each color was assigned a
> point value. Pink=7, brown=6, yellow=5... and so on. The easier
> to find colors were worth less points. We could shoot any
> color...and the appropriate points would be assigned for that
> turn. so it goes... Red car, color car, red car, color car, red
> car color, car... and so on. Yes they have to be in order.... the
> pictures must be of a moving car on a hiway from your moving car on
> a hiway. You must have some of the interior of your car in the
> picture.... do you know how difficult that is in a spridget.
> Anyway... the bottom of the paper we had to hand in had what looked
> like a key of the point values of the cars.... WRONG....the key
> was on the previous page. We ended up missing a possible total of
> 28 points, due to missing the bottom of the page. Doh!!!
>
> So the drive was great, though. 95 to DC wasn't too bad.... little
> rain... go faster we won't get wet. Worked. Our plan was to
> drive slow and let the cars pass us, so we could take pictures of
> the ones we needed. That kinda worked. 5mph under the speed in
> our car drew alot of attention.!!!! People were slowing down to
> Take Our Picture. We had a lineup behind us for a while. ;-) Now
> I know how OJ felt. So in DC we did some stop-n-go. No Problem
> though. Then we took off for a bit down rte 66. Not bad... but
> not like the song. We stop for a 10 minute gas stop and ended up
> there for about a half hour. We were celebrities!!! So much that
> I think Larry has a girlfriend. This girl wanted her picture with
> us... so she grabbed larry and put her arm right around him. Then
> she called me over.... so I went around the car the long way and
> stood on the other side of Larry. ;-) Her (Husband) didn't mind
> taking the picture one bit. Oh well... 20 more minutes of
> pictures from this couple had us saying we were late. (We
> weren't). There is no time limit. So that gave us the opportunity
> to take Skyline Drive the rest of the way to the destination.
> Classic rock tunes and 50 miles of Skyline drive... WOW!!!!
> Beautiful!!! To keep things on an even-keel... we still did the
> speed... but it was tough! Safety comes first, and there were alot
> of pedestrians on bicycles, deer, and even bear. We got shots of
> it all. Larry did pull a U'e in the middle of the 2 laned Skyline
> Drive to chase after a brown SUV that passed us going the other
> way. ;-) I think we got video of that... I will look like we
> almost crashed. Sweet!
>
> So we leasurly check in last night. Tally points and eat.. and we
> hear rumors about John Deikis, someone from our list. So, I went
> and asked John what happened.... this is what he conveied.....
> John, driving a 3 wheeled honda CRX... is taking the pictures of
> the cars like we all had to. However, someone in a brown (alot of
> points) Mercedes takes a dislike to this, and follows him to the
> next rest stop. John was unaware he was being followed till the NJ
> State Police parked a few squad cars around his car and ordered him
> and his son out of the vehicle. Apparently, the Mercedes drive
> complained about some guy driving sown the interstate taking
> pictures of cars. The cops questioned John about this... 2 ot the
> troopers were laughing... their Commanding Officer (I am guessing)
> who was there wasn't thrilled, though... but he accepted that
> answer. The main cop started giving John heck about no inspection
> in Michigan... like he has something to do with it. Well it
> appears that the troopers were going to let him go... until (and
> this is right from John).. until John flipped the driver of the
> Brown Mercedes the bird. Well this didn't float with the other
> driver.. so he told the troopers... and well, they weren't happy
> either. He ended up getting a ticket for a cracked windshield. I
> guess he is lucky that happened in NJ and not down south further.
>
> OK, gotta go. Looked like rain last night and this morning, so the
> hotel let us park our spridget under their carport for the night.
> Nice folks down here!
>
> I will write again when I can.
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