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On this last day of our trip, we chanced to meet Dr. Roger Clemens, a research physician with many interests and teaching credentials, whose career cannot be summed up succinctly here. Suffice it to say, he was very interested in our quest to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis and Colorectal Cancer charities, and spoke with…

This one started out with a small disappointment: Barstow’s Route 66 Museum was to be our big thing, but it was CLOSED on Thursdays…surprise to us. SO, nothing else to do but drive.We left for Arcadia, California, where we reserved our hotel for the night. Mike mapped out an exciting route, taking us through some…

This started out as a normal day: wake up, get dressed, ride the folding bike, go for food  at the breakfast bar, but first check to be sure the Cobra made it safely through the night. SURPRISE: Someone left me a small HotWheels model Cobra on the dashboard, with a mysterious note… What a mystery!…

Today wasn’t much on mega-excitement;  good thing, as we were still recovering from the intense mountain road-running yesterday getting to Flagstaff. Oh, uh, kids: when you build your car, DO NOT drive it late at night on dark twisty mountain roads unless you have FIRST aligned the headlights! Just a thought, FWIW.  We spent the…

Everyone sleeps better when they’re home, right? Well, we ALL slept better at MIKE’S home last night, and woke extra early to wash the cars before the Phoenix sun became high and scorching. We got the job done while there was still some shade, and lined the fleet up for portraits. We also hit Mike’s…

This day was packed with adventure. We left our WigWam Motel early for the drive to Scottsdale/Phoenix, hoping to catch a 10:00 a.m. concert at MIM (more on that later). It was about 42 degrees at Holbrook when I woke up in the tipi, and not much better when we started driving. Wore ALL my…

Another day for the books: it started off as a possible failure, but turned fantastic. Our hoped-for “meet and greet” with other car folks at  the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Care hospital fell through, no one showed up. BUT: Angelica Solares, Senior Project Manager of the facility, and her husband Danny, DID attend,…

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 Spray and Shine and the soft cloths I’d hidden in the trunk. Mitch found a self-spray car…

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…

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…