Leaving Boston on Wednesday - a bit of fall color already in the trees
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Making great time for an hour on the Merritt Parkway
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Uh Oh - welcome to NYC traffic
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If you live there, New Jersey is Eden, to the rest of us it looks like this ;-)
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Look ... a Jersey Turnpike Barbecue ;-)
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Never follow eh? Schwing knows better, but at least it's ahead of the Mustang
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Made it as far as Richmond Wednesday night and found Evan (eas ttq) and Bryan (sevenTTwo) on Thursday morning.
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No trip to South Carolina would be complete without stop at a classy joint like this
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We were joined in the Sombrero Room by Tom (remoTT) and Joe (TTuned) - if you haven't seen Tom's car, it's absolutely stunning and good to be rolling again
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Friday morning was a walking tour of Charleston - great city and loads to see
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Sal's got a little "Captain" in him
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Back at the hotel George (oldseTTer) is ready for a drive...beautiful color car BTW ;-)
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And off we drove to the beach
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Steve and Hans pondering if next year's TT East should simply be a 3 day beach party
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And now off to learn the miracles of the Muscatine grape at Irving House Winery
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Ted skipped lunch just so he could eat more grapes
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Inside the corksoakers were riveted to learn even more about the Muscatine grape
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Saturday I played golf in the morning and lost my camera for 24 hours so there's a big hole in this travelogue, but there was a tour of the Yorktown, a great boat ride to Ft Sumter and the dinner Saturday night provided everyone with loads of goodies to take home and the usual hilarity.
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Fortunately, I found my camera while packing Sunday morning - queuing for the group shot
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A smaller group than in years past, but no less handsome
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And then the long straight trek back to Boston -
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If you've never attended one of these - don't let another go by without making the trip. Several of the best days I'll spend all year, even if I'm a little fuzzy on the details after about 9:00 PM every night ;-).

Always great to meet new friends and to see so many who are a part of things around here. Special thanks to Hans and all who put so much into organizing these events - we're all incredibly grateful.

 

Great to see you again!

 

NICEgoing,Doug....well said.. ;-)

 

And good driving with ya! Nice to see your car up close too...it looks really good!

 

We should try to have a fall golf outing.. Hey, are you planning on taking the New England Foliage Trek?

 

glad to see ya made it....and i know your pain on the Merritt! Remember, i live there! ;-(

I like the two pix of my car in hi-res please...;-)

 

I paid him...hence the good review...;-P

 

Great to meet you Doug. Yeah these events are a blast.

 

119mph???

 

"If you live there, New Jersey is Eden" is not true at all.

It was nice meeting you and great hanging out.