It was the first time Tony & Janice had
visited the cruise and I think they enjoyed the volume and quality of the
vehicles. Chick-fil-a gives all the
drivers a discount on their food, which is a nice perk since we had cruised 62
miles to get there from home. I was
enjoying the fellowship and the time slipped away from me before I started
taking pictures. That seems to be
happening to me more lately….I have to think about how to spend my time at the
events.
I really liked the red/cream ’52 Chevy woodie
from Hawaii….the visor and other custom touches made the car stand out for
me. I also liked the way loud black,
open wheel ’32 Ford Sedan Delivery with the blown BBC….and zoomies. Zoomies always make the car for me….grin! We left around 8PM as we had a 1 ½ hour
cruise back to Stafford, VA….the night was cool…..it was a very nice cruise
home.
Saturday the Princess and I met Bill &
Linda, Fred & Debie, Dan & Ramona and Jim & Linda at the WAWA in
Stafford, VA and launched on our first ‘Kodak Cruise’.
I am always soliciting new places to cruise and
earlier this year, someone had mentioned a Calendar Cruise where we go to scenic
places and take pictures of our cars and use them for a calendar. I thought about the concept and liked
it! But our cruise would be to scenic
places but the pictures could be used for anything, including a calendar. Lucky
for us Virginia has many scenic places to visit and we experienced most of them
while we were riding the Harley. Unluckily
for us it was going to be difficult choosing where to go but I eventually
decided on Skyline Drive. It is a
Nationally known drive that many have used to experience our beautiful Blue
Ridge Mountains. http://www.visitskylinedrive.org/Home.aspx Now our mountains are not like the Rockies
out west, the highest elevation on the Drive is only 3680 feet….but the beauty
they share is just as breathtaking as driving Yellowstone.
We left Stafford and cruised 56 miles to
Rediviva, VA and our pit stop. After
filling the tanks and emptying the bladders we were joined by Nick, Bill &
Linda’s Grandson, for our adventure of the day.
I wanted to make sure everyone had full tanks because fuel on Skyline
Drive would be scarce and pricey. We all
saddled up and cruised 11 miles to the Thornton Gap Entrance Station to Skyline
Drive. The youngsters (under 62) had to
pay $15 to go on the drive for 6 days….us old folks got to pay $10 for a
lifetime National Park pass….what a deal!
We took the south route and within a few minutes
we came to our first of many ‘turn outs’ on the Drive. These turn outs are made for Kodak moments….if
the weather is nice, the views are magnificent.
We had Chamber of Commerce postcard weather….blue skies, white puffy
clouds, moderate temperature of high 70’s and just a little breeze….it couldn’t
get any better! You need to check out
the photos I took to get a flavor of what we did for the next 3 hours or so….it
was fun.
On one of the stops there was a large pile of
rocks….which are meant to be climbed on and have your picture taken….right. Someone said watch out for snakes but the
Princess said they were going to be making a lot of girl noises so that would
scare the snakes away….I didn’t want to tell her that snakes don’t have ears…..that
would open up a whole other place that I didn’t want to go. In one of Fred’s videos he took of them
climbing around you can hear the Princess in the background saying….”Look, look
at these big rocks in the wall, they have shinny stuff in them, I want a rock
with shinny stuff”….it really doesn’t take much. I was waiting for something like ‘what do you
mean I can’t take any rocks, we have a truck’.
Lucky for me something else shinny caught her attention and the rocks
were forgotten….usually if I can outlast her for a couple minutes the focus
changes….grin
We cruised and stopped for pictures for the next
33 miles till we came to Swift Run Gap Entrance where we left the Drive. We traveled East on Rt. 33 for 15 miles to
Ruckersville and the Blue Ridge Café for our late lunch. After we ate we decided to attend the weekly
cruise at the BK in Manassas, VA….it was on the way home….kinda.
So we cruised 65 miles to the BK and arrived
about 4:30 to a parking lot that was about ½ full already! This is an active cruise and some people
cruise in, stay for a while, then cruise somewhere else. So it’s impossible to accurately determine
how many vehicles visit on any given evening.
My guess is that about 200-230 every week. This Saturday must have been Hot Tub night….the
big rowdy motor, big tire people brought their rides in for us to view….some
very nice cars. The white Barracuda and
the red Nova were two of the many examples….as was Tom’s maroon Camaro. This is a video I took of them arriving; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBS3RclOp1Y&feature=c4-overview&list=UU5dBPYR_fVjKQxNVckvpRpg I had the opportunity to put a real live person
with another one of my “Electronic” friends on Facebook, I met Jim and his very
nice red Dodge. Jim told me of a Mustang
that was at the cruise and that I needed to make sure to see it. It was a blue 66 Shelby Mustang GT
convertible. The car’s owner, Rich, is
the original owner and it is one of 16 cars made like that! The only things that are new on the car are
the battery, tires and carburetor and 7000 miles! WOW….
Most of our group ate some ice cream then it had
been a very long day so we cruised 35 miles home. At home the Princess and I had to get the day’s
bugs and dirt off the truck so we could attend the PWC, Good Ol Days event the
next day. We work in the show so we do
not enter our truck but we like to park it with the club cars and a bug splattered
dirty truck just won’t do….grin But….it rained Sunday morning till about 11 am….so
we didn’t get to take the truck out again anyway! So it rests….waiting for next weekend’s
adventures.
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