[Shotimes] Re: Thanks for everyone that came to Washington, IL

[Donald Mallinson]

Carter,

Glad you didn't have any major problems and got the wheel 
tight before it caused a real problem.

Yes, you were probably right to not stop in E. St.Louis, 
some areas can be REAL bad.

My brother-in Law once was driving a semi through the area, 
got lost and wound up deep into E. St. Louis.  Finally he 
saw and stopped a cop who advised him to turn around and run 
stop lights till he got out of the area, implying that the 
truck could be overrun if he stopped at the wrong 
intersection (lot of guns were evident on the streets also!)

Only thing that might have saved him is he was driving a 
propane truck.  Generally people can't steal propane and it 
isn't a good idea to shoot at propane tanks!  :)

Jan and I were glad you stopped by, it was great that we 
could have the meeting at the same time as your visit!

You are welcome anytime you are in the area.

Don Mallinson

Carter Fuji wrote:

> Thank you Don, Jan and family for your graciousness and hospitality. 
> Tammy and I both thoroughly enjoyed the visit. The food was fantastic 
> (Brats just taste better up north!) and meeting all the other SHOcago 
> bunch that weren't up at the convention was terrific. Thank you again.
> 
> Our trip back to Akansas was uneventful other then almost losing a wheel 
> in East St. Louis when we missed our turn off of 70 and ended up 
> crossing some smaller bridge. After turning around in East Saint Louis 
> and explaining to my better half why we should wait 'til we got back 
> into Missouri to check and see what the horrific noise was, we were 
> blessed to discover it was ONLY a loose wheel as I originally thought it 
> was an axle falling out or something worse since it only made noise when 
> I took my foot of the gas. I suspect that since all but the locknuts 
> were less then hand tight that somebody had tried to take the 
> wheels while we were in the hotel near the airport. Looked like they 
> tried to remove them with Vise grips and it didn't really work.
> 
> We spent a couple of hours in the Arch and the museum under it and then 
> went on to Merimac Caverns. All of this amazing since Tammy is a 
> clusterphobic and not real big on being underground either. We arrived 
> home last night at 10:00 and averaged around 27 mpg after we filled up 
> from Larry's tank emptying.
> 
> Again, thank you to Don, Jan, Larry and the entire SHOcago group for 
> such a warm welcome back home.
> 
> Carter Fuji
> 
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> From: Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net> To: v8sho@v8sho.com, `V6 
> SHOtimes <SHOtimes@autox.team.net> Subject: Thanks for everyone that 
> came to Washington, IL Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:00:39 -0500 Just a note 
> to say there was a great turnout for the meeting at the Mallinson Ranch 
> for the SHOcago group and friends. It is a long haul for many of you 
> from Around the area, but Jan and I (and Ken and Jodie and Ethan) really 
> enjoyed seeing all of you again, and a pleasure to play host and line 
> cook for the group! Great to see Larry Eck make it and took a break from 
> putting SHOwhat back together (and Eric, thanks for all you are doing 
> for Larry!). Always good to see Tony Fullone because, well because he is 
> just so much fun and tells such great stories. Tim Wright made it up 
> from Decatur (and sorry we didn't get that frozen Oreo/icecream cake out 
> for the group, but we did make good use of it later in the evening 
> sharing it with my grandchildren, they all said to say THANKS