Archive for May 2024
MAY 10: To Albuquerque via Placitas Car-Club Lunch and Box Stores
What a WINDY place this is! Santa Fe winds blew tons of dust and damp rainy mist onto our cars last night, so we had some cleaning to do this morning. I shined up Aardvark with some Griot’s Speed Shine and the soft cloths I’d hidden in the trunk. Mitch found a self-spray car wash,…
Read More“By The Time I Make Albuquerque”…I will have had breakfast (with a nod to Glen Campbell)
It was a very cool morning in Sante Fe, and hot coffee helped take the chill off. But is was the late breakfast we had in Placitas NM at the High Point Plaza with John’s friend Jim Levandowski that we really looked forward to. Jim is a retired engineer living in the area, and a…
Read MoreDo You Know The Way to Santa Fe? (with apologies to Burt Bacharach)
Another fantastic day with amazing weather and great highway. We left Santa Rosa New Mexico and Mike took us by way of old Route 66, which was part of the original Santa Fe Trail, to Pecos Historical National Park. The park is comprised of preserved ruins of the Pecos tribe of the Pueblo indigenous peoples.…
Read MoreMay 9: Super Scenery at Pecos NHP & Santa Fe
We dumped our plan to head for Tucumcari, NM, to stay at the iconic Blue Swallow Motel. Mitch visited Tucumcari for a photo shoot yesterday, and reported depressing decay and rotted buildings all around the town, except for the Blue Swallow…so we passed. Instead, today became a laid-back driving day, on some of the best…
Read MoreGood Food and Hot Panhandles Go Together
Yesterday started out in Weatherford OK, and we motored first to Clinton OK on Rt 66 to meet with Elisha Rangel, a reporter for the Clinton Daily News. Elisha is writing a piece about the 3C adventure, and encouraging their readers to participate and support our efforts. We also visited the Rt. 66 Museum in…
Read MoreMAY 8: R66 Museum, Quarter Horse Museum, Press coverage, and Mega-LUNCH!
Woke up in Clinton’s Fairfield Motel, where the staff had allowed me to park Aardvark under the main door canopy overnight. Fantastic exposure for our charities: plenty of people asked us about the car and charities displayed on it. Hoping that made some dent in our donations goal! We drove into town for an interview…
Read MoreAbe’s Neighborhood
As you may know from reading John’s blog, we experienced an unplanned delay in our trek when his car broke down at Gardner, IL. The car was towed to Springfield, IL where we spent the next two nights. An unfortunate delay turned into a wonderful adventure. The next morning was Sunday, and no repair shops…
Read MoreA chance meeting to remember
John Phillips, cousin to my brother and myself, drove to Valparaiso a day early to meet up with Gale Larson, a retired Air Force Colonel and the gentleman John had bought his Factory Five 1965 Cobra replica from. John wanted to not only show Gale the finished car, but also give him an opportunity to…
Read MoreMAY 7 POP’S Soda Bar & Grill & Old Friends
We dodged a bullet last night, Oklahoma tornados missed us but high winds tore the car cover off Aardvark. Everything inside was soaked by the torrential rain. Solution: take the top off the car, towel everything off as much as possible, sit on plastic bags to avoid the pond in the drivers seat, and hit…
Read MoreMay 5 & 6 Setbacks = Meet cool new people & learn stuff!
May 5 & 6: Two days different than we planned, but really great anyway. After being towed in to the hotel in Springfield, IL, and deposited in the foremost parking site where everyone who came to the hotel had to walk right past Aardvark. It was a SUNDAY; we called for help from the FFR…
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