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A Great Adventure - or on the road to Factory Five Open House
by , 06-03-2015 at 09:56 AM (6111 Views)
In a few days I leave the absolutely most western point of Texas - Mountain time zone - for FFR's 20th Anniversary Open House. Ya, it will be a trip of about 2400 miles one way to get to FFR but like most of my trips that will only be a pause in the trip. After the Open house I'm driving on up to what is called Downeast Maine. We'll repack the car with some additional bags, suitcases, books, etc THEN the real trip will begin! Our granddaughter is coming down to Texas for her summer adventure! To say she is excited is a vast understatement. She is only 10 years old BUT ever since she saw the Mark I, officially it has been know as HER CAR that grandpa is just keeping for her! Imagine this little 6 year old blond coming up to you in a car show to tell you, in only the kind of voice that little blond 6 year old can say, "I have a car like that, my grandpa is storing it for me!"
Grandchildren are what makes having kids worthwhile!
When my son and I replaced the engine in the ol'Mark I, throughout the entire day she had climbed into the driver seat to take up her position and thus monitored the changes being made to HER CAR! We had to pull her out of the car for lunch! Only to have her climb over the door and back into the car as quickly as she could, after she ... ate is not an accurate word ... more like gobble down her food! She did not want to miss a moment of the work.
That's what will make this long trip worthwhile! This will be HER big adventure of this summer!
She has been planning our route back with a stay at "expensive" hotels. SO I asked what kind of expensive hotel are we going to stay at? I got a response in a ...like I should know kind of voice, over skype ... "Grandpa, it's the ones with a pool and free food!"
I also noticed that the route is mapped right through midtown NYC - seems she has never, that she remembers, ever been in NYC and really, REALLY, wants to just drive through NYC. I use to work just across from Bryant Park, so this will be a revisit to the ol'City. No stops, just a drive through kind of visit.
Ya this will be an adventure - a most excellent adventure.
We're hooking up GoPro cameras to record her adventure. We'll gather all the images and video's to create a presentation she can take back to school, after the summer, to show what She did with her summer vacation!
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