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Friday, June 8, 2007 |
| Day Ten - Little Rock |
 Last night, we planned to leave the hotel about 7:00 AM. The time translastion (most of y'all are an hour later) got lost in the beer consumption, and Sonny and Cecil were late!
But no problem...Little Rock is just a couple hours from Memphis, and even going the HRPT route, only about three hours.
We stopped along the way for breakfast...good food, but it took an hour to get served, and we were pretty much the only ones in there! When they get busy later in the morning, they're gonna be in big trouble!
We were at the Arkansas Fairgrounds about 11:30 AM, and were among the first ten cars to enter the show field. They began parking us at the far end, and you wouldn't believe the number of people bitchin' about our preferred parking...it wasn't preferred enough for them!
We wandered around, picked up some of the Long Hauler gifts from the vendors (we've received at least a half-dozen T-shirts), and finally found Dan Dixon (aka Burple), who we travelled with in 2005 and 2006.
We wanted BBQ for lunch, especially after that lousy BBQ we had yesterday, so we asked one of the local's, who told us to try Sims BBQ, and gave us directions.
No description of this place would do it justice; you've gotta see the pics in the photo album. But forget the ambience, and forget the fact that we were the only white people in the place, and focus on the BBQ, which was the best we've had on this trip! This place easily gives Smokey Pig a serious run for the money!
Now it's 4:00 PM, and the Tour is over. Tomorrow morning, we go back to the Fairgrounds for the Long Hauler awards, find out where the 2008 Tour will start and stop (not that it matters...we're going to Carlisle next year!), we'll meet up with Kevin and AJ, and head for Hamilton, Alabama, where we'll spend the night.
It was a good Tour. The smaller the size of the group you travel with, the easier it is. We've driven nearly 3000 miles, and we've got nearly a thousand more to go. The price of gas never got as high as we expected, and was usually in the $3 a gallon area.
Sonny's radio gremlin was fixed when he replaced the radio. Cecil's oil leak is still a problem, even after replacing the front seal and a valve cover gasket. We're gonna take a power nap now, and then try to find and fix the leak this evening...Cecil has spent more for oil than for fuel! |
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Day Nine - Memphis
Day Eight - Evansville
Day Seven - Springfield
Day Six - Racine
Day Five - Kalamazoo
Day Four - Cleveland
Day Three - Cleveland
Hot Rod Power Tour - Day Two
Hot Rod Power Tour - Day One
Beach Blast XIII
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