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Urgrace

Saturday, August 03, 2002 - 10:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So that's where all the sweetness is, huh? Sugar coated Donut, sweet nougaty Babyruth, and Deli-tefulah all up in the NE. Hope you have a blast and am looking forward to the pics!

Have a great time and don't forget to take along an extra panty thong to throw at Tom Jones!!!

Babyruth

Monday, August 05, 2002 - 12:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm back from my one week road trip "back east" with my Dad. Visited family in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and had fun spending some beach time in Maine as well.

Dad was also doing a sort of self-guided geneology tour of old family gravesites dating from the late 1600's to more recent times. Armed with information he has gathered from his own family as well as distant relatives, we drove through western Massachusetts and New Hampshire, visiting old church cemeteries and digging up (so to speak) names and birth/death dates of ancestors. Actually, there were all sorts of very very old gravestones with interesting artwork and lettering--I took some pics of some of the more unusual ones. Kind wished I had thought ahead and brought stuff to do some rubbings, but oh well...

It was great to drive around with my Dad and have him share the old family stories (yep, I'm writing them down!) and who is related to whom and how, etc. He also reminisced about his own boyhood as we visited the towns he grew up in, which haven't really changed much in all these years. We visited the old schoolhouse he went to (still in use as a grade school), and the lake where he learned to swim. Drove past the house he was born in and in another town, the one where he and my Mom first lived after they were married. Lots of stories.

We then drove down to Connecticut to visit my older brother and drive through the town we grew up in (from 6th grade on). My brother still lives in the area, but I hadn't been back since 1979. Wow-! I was amazed that very little had changed, due to great township planning/laws, etc. Gary and I had fun sharing stories/memories of our jr. high and high school years there. Dad learned a lot about what sort of activities we were up to as teens! LOL

Anyway, Dad and I had a special week. We both knew it was probably the last time we'd do a trip like this together, and it really meant a lot to us both. I haven't spent this much time alone with my Dad in over 20 years.

But the other highlight of my week was meeting TVCH's own sweet and silly pastry poster, DONUT! She and hubby managed to work with my ever-changing plans and wacky schedule and we met at a little roadside ice cream/snack place in Mass. She's exactly the fun pastry you know her to be here at the clubhouse--sweet, warm, thoughtful, and sprinkled with wit. You all ought to take her up on booking visits because she and hubby are such a great pair--we had a really nice time, and I'm so glad we got to meet!

Pics are being developed and something will be posted soon. :)

Schoolmarm

Monday, August 05, 2002 - 03:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
WHOO HOO! Another TVCH meeting...sounds like a great trip Baby Ruth.

I'm frantically doing laundry, packing and printing off what is hopefully the last of the dissertation revisions before I fly out tomorrow morning to visit my brother's family near Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota. Apparently my niece (2 1/2 years old) has the whole trip planned...chuckwagon right when I get off the plane, followed by the Flintstones Park and swimming at the Hot Springs pool. It will be nice to see them, however, I always feel frantic when I'm packing and I feel as if I have to have EVERYTHING done for the next month, even though I'll be gone for less than two weeks.

More later when the road warrior hits the road!

Gail

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 10:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am done packing and just about to hit the road. I decided to take a week off to do a little fishing up north with some friends. I am looking forward to driving for a few days. I saved Shelters of Stone on CD for this trip so I have that to look forward to. I am stopping in Kearney, NE and Omaha, NE to do a little shopping then heading straight north for a few hundred miles.

Tonight I will be sure to stop early enough to catch BB and maybe log on to a computer for a few minutes. :)

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 11:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Aaaaaaaannnnnd, it is AWWWNNNNNNN ...

THE GREAT TVCLUBHOUSE ROAD TRIP OF 2002!!!


The Urgrace motorcycle cavalcade and Texas bugle corps fired up this morning before 5 a.m.!!! They are headin' north and hoping to avoid the bad stretches of highway through Kansas. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Maybe never were. My Urgrace "hittin' the highway" farewell message was set to the tune of Kokomo (really). "Jamaica, Bahamas, c'mon pretty Momma ... that's where we'll goooooo, way down in Kokomo!" With any luck, the Urgrace party has cleared the Texas border by now.

Lancecrossfire and Sage were set to blast off five hours ago, just a couple hours behind and a few thousand miles away from Urgrace and company. Betcha they are in Montana already.

Both groups have wisely planned to be stopped for the night in time to catch BB3. We don't want any addiction deprivation to be setting in here.

Gail should be underway even as we speak, barrelling for Nebraska in a car packed to the gills.

Schoolmarm, as a more or less perpetual traveler this summer, has been underway for days. <waves to Marm ensconced somewhere in the Badlands>

Yeeeeehaw!!! It is awwwwnnnnnn!!! Watch this space for more blastoffs.

Bob2112

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 11:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I drove south to work today.

Webkitty

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 01:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I drove to the gym today

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 02:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Dagnabit, Sponge, you are going the wrong way!

Myjohnhenry

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I drove to the dr today

Babyruth

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 03:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I drove my cats bonkers today.

Catnip mouse, anyone?

Resortgirl

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 03:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I drove myself crazy today... Am I headed in the right direction juju???

Car54

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I snuck out of work early and drove to our store at the mall, fixed something and went shopping!

Weinermr

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Where is Bonkers?

Reminds me of All in the Family, when Archie was called Mr. Bonkers, and Edith was Missy Bonkers.

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 04:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rg, if you are driving yourself crazy, I think it is safe to say you have been at your destination for quite some time.

By the way, I have now lost the ability to even find some parts of the board and have no idea how I got here, so if I don't make it back for a while, I am the one who is lost (even though I am not going anywhere) and not the road trippers.

<spins head backwards>

Schoolmarm

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 05:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
HEY!!! Motercycle fans, it's Cycle week in Sturgis RIGHT now! I had lots of drunk biking enthusiasts on my plane from Denver to Rapid City.

Well, I've been to MT. Rushmore and the Flintstones park with my niece. We went chasing fires last night and might to it again tonight, as my brother got called out again.

Since my brother is out on a fire, the girls are having a night out!

The chuck wagon was fun, too, but very hot!

I'll be flying out on Saturday for another installment of the great road trip!

Resortgirl

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 05:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Marm, I hope that wherever you are flying to on Saturday that you find yourself full of joy and surrounded by love. I on the other hand just landed in crazy! :)

Babyruth

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 06:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, Weiner, that was Yonkers.

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 08:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay, just received a dispatch from one of the road warriors, and she made it to a safe haven in Nebraska in time to watch BB AND get a pizza. Really excellent road warrioring!

Meme9

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 08:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Safe traveling to all the tvchers!!!

Those of you going north, enjoy...and don't talk about us to much....hehehe

And to all that have other destinations...(bonkers,yonkers,crazy,you get the idea)have a Happy trip!!!

Soeur

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 08:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I hope they all have a fantastic time together. Oh to be a flyonthewall. It says a lot about this place that such an adventure is possible. Love you guys!

Tess

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bob, NORTH!!! Were you driving in your sleep again? Try again tomorrow.

Juju2bigdog

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 09:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wait! If Bob goes north, does that mean that the others will divert south? Nah.

And this just in - we have another wayfarer on the road. Merlin has been spotted racing for the North Texas border. Hmmmmmm, if Bob keeps heading south, he might just hook up with him in Peeswat Arkansas.

Egbok

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 09:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju, I'm glad you are finding your way back to this thread to keep us updated!! That dang server-changy-thangies messed us up!! Anyhoo, keep sniffing out this thread Juju and thanks for the updates!

Tess

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 09:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hahahahhahahahah. OMH!

Weinermr

Thursday, August 08, 2002 - 10:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Peeswat?