Steve,
You guys need to come up with a catchy name for your group. NC Road Rage, NC
Road Kill, Honky Hooters from NC, etc., etc.
I think we all appreciate your updates especially with humor. Many of us
can't make the driving trip and the ones who are no longer able to drive the
distance will especially appreciate the day by day drive report.
See you in SD.
Patrick
BTW: Hoo Roo, Don't envy these guys because you're having a bit of a chill
down under. Revenge is coming up in the desert. I did the trip when I was young
in 1973 and still can recall crossing the mountains.
Message: 5
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:38:04 -0400
From: BJ8 Healeys
Subject: [Healeys] On the Road to Conclave (Day 3)
To: healeys@autox.team.net
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Hello, Healeyphiles -
Another 330 miles on the Byers and Haywood clocks today, from Tuscaloosa,
Alabama to El Dorado, Arkansas. My Spanish-speaking friends would mis-pronounce
the name of our stop for the night. The locals call it "El Do-Ray-Do" or
sometimes "Elderader".
We have had three full days of bright blue skies and sunshine, and for the
first thousand miles since leaving home on Sunday it has been top-down all the
way. However, there is an Elderader storm going on outside at the moment. Maybe
it will cool things down a bit and be gone by tomorrow morning.
Today was US 82 all the way. It was a dream, too. In Mississippi, it's all
four-lane from border to border and could be an interstate except that there
was almost no traffic, and no trucks. The road passes through some beautiful
countryside and farm lands. It was back to two-lane in Arkansas, but a nice
road even if it is straight and flat.
Today's observations:
The Missisippi armadillos have no better success at crossing the roads as the
Georgia deer or the North Carolina possums.
Kudzu grows very well in Dixie.
Mississippi must be the soybean capital of the world.
Tennessee Williams should have been called "Mississippi Williams" since he was
born in Columbus. Or maybe he should have been called "Miss. Williams" (or MS.
Williams).
Indianola, MS is the birthplace of B.B. King. It is also the final resting
place of a red Austin (America? Chummy? Nubby? Bubba?) on a pole.
Linden, MS is the birthplace of Kermit the Frog (I thought he had more of a
northern accent), and the home of the Blues museum.
Top-down driving this time of year is great because you get to smell the aroma
of mimosas in bloom. It can also be pretty bad when a truckload of chickens
passes you. Man, those chickens can stink!
People in Arkansas who live by the Mississippi River have some world class
front yards.
See you tomorrow!
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA National Delegate
Havelock, NC USA
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