Hard Top Relay - Salt Lake City to Boston

[Nicky-The-Squid]

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This is up to date as of this moment.
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The up to date Route and participants in the Salt Lake to Boston Relay
1. 5/31 Vickie/Dizzbe met Charles/doubutsu from las vegas, NV at Cedar City, Utah.
2. 6/23 Charles has an event in Tulsa, Oklahoma therefor he will be driving the longest leg and getting the top
- - - -- - to Tulsa about that time and give it to Paul/2K2BIRD, Tahlequah, OK
3. 7/4 or 7/5 Paul will take the top to Karen/MObird, Springfield, MO
4. 7/8 Karen will meet up with Jerry/JBest, in Columbia, MO.
5. 7/9 or 7/10 Jerry to Ray/Ray_theherd in Lincoln, IL
6. 7/12 or 7/13 Ray to Brad in Chicago, IL
7. Brad to Lawrence/Leroy, of Portage, IN somewhere near the Ill/Ind. state line off I-94
8. Lawrence to John/JAB02LHS, CLEVELAND, OH
9. John to Pat/94mcd, Huntingdon, PA
10. Pat to John/3rd Brd near the Poconos or Allentown, NJ
11. John to John/JRM, Long Island, NY
12. John to Chuck, Woodbury, CT
13. Chuck to me
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[MObird]

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Thought I'd bring this up to make sure everyone is good to go in light of the flooding and weird weather lately.
Jerry, I'm good to go; just wanted to see what your status is up there. Think you can make it to Columbia, MO, in about 3 weeks?
Been thinking about you all up there.

[2K2BIRD]

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We are good to go as planned.

[Nicky-The-Squid]

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Thought I'd bring this up to make sure everyone is good to go in light of the flooding and weird weather lately.
Jerry, I'm good to go; just wanted to see what your status is up there. Think you can make it to Columbia, MO, in about 3 weeks?
Been thinking about you all up there.

Thank you for bringing this back up Karen.
I saw that Jerry checked in last Friday on the Iowa please check in thread and is fine. Sure is bad in that state right now. My thoughts and prayers are out there that's for sure.
Seems to me everything is OK in Ray's world as well.
Thank's for checking in Paul.
Have a safe trip Charles. Looks like your leg is just about coming up.

[Ray]

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Everything's fine where I live. We've had a lot of rain, but no flooding.

[MObird]

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We had a monsoon here Friday. Six inches, no kidding. The old record was just under two back in 1954. Had a little water in our basement but got it with the shop-vac.
One Ford dealership here had about 30 cars sitting in water up to the windows.
Several roads were closed for a few hours and some roads washed out.

[doubutsu]

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hi karen, fox news had some video of springfield showing water filling a underpass, did'nt look good. i'm leaving saturday morning for oklahoma, looks like rain there. hope paul and i can make the pass off without getting the interiors wet. hate taking my car out in the rain.

[Brad]

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I see the dates stop with me...if Leroy is available my plan was to take the top right from Ray to him...

[doubutsu]

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nick, your hardtop is 700 miles closer to you, i'm spending the night in santa rosa, nm. if everything goes as planned, i will hand it off to paul sunday afternoon. enjoy michael

[JBest]

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Good to go !

[2K2BIRD]

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Nick & All,

The hardtop has landed in Oklahoma!!! Mike (doubutsu) surprised us and brought it all the way to Tahlequah after driving from Santa Rosa, NM today. Because it is the typical warm, sunny, humid day in Oklahoma I suggested we meet at the local Federal Credit Union that is less than a mile from our house so we could exchange the top in the shade. Sort of gives a new meaning to a drivethru withdrawal and/or deposit.

Mike thought that was a great idea as he wanted to get back on the road to make it up to Coffeyville, KS tonight. After the sweat we worked up in the shade I'm sure glad we didn't do it out in the open! We did end up talking for well over an hour however so he didn't get on the road that quickly.

Mike is a really nice guy and has a beautiful black '05 that he obviously loves. He has done some really nice mods that he really doesn't brag about on TBN such as wire wheels, white walls, lowered suspension, custom red dyed interior pieces, in-dash Pioneer navigation/stereo system, '06 bronze metal door and dash trim, and a very nice wood dash kit. All in all a very special bird for sure! His biggest worry was that the car was dirty after two hard days on the road. Believe me it looked very good considering how far it had come!

I'll attach a few pictures of the swap. We did take a few with the traveling camera as well, but Nicky will have to get those processed and posted when he gets it.

Karen, we should be good to go for a July 4th or 5th swap to your car depending on what works for you best. So far it has looked good on a Merlot, Evening Black and Torch Red so I'm sure it will look good on the PCR as well.

[2K2BIRD]

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More pictures...

[2K2BIRD]

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And a couple of more photos. Thanks to Rosetta for being the photographer.

[islandtime]

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Super pics, y'all! This is one of the most exciting HT relays!

[SixPac]

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Thanks for the pics. Y'all keepem coming at all the swaps.