Here's what I did not do at the SDC IM this year. I went as a vendor.
(1) Did not walk the vendor buildings.
(2) Did not walk the show field.
(3) Did not go downtown (dinner, or host hotel, or First Friday parade).
(4) Did not go on the building tour.
(5) Did not go to the test track.
(6) Did not do any AOAI stuff.
Here is my complaint list.......
(1) No complaints
Here is my disappointment list.....
(1) No disappointments
I had a blast. A crazy weather beating, full on, blast.
Met sooo many great people. Heard sooo many stories, was dragged around to dinner and into the back of motels for impromptu Avanti land speed demonstrations (best done when the brakes work), fire trucks trying to run me down. It was nutz.
I have no complaints. I need no trinkets, as I have too many now.
(besides, my trinkets weighed 61 pounds and 31 pounds respectively).
The SDC meet people ran in to see if I was all right several times (but never with free food, which I was kind of hoping for).
Ed George was kind enough to keep his wife up until 3am in the hospitality suite talking to me about Portillo's hot dogs and Giordano's deep dish pizza.
All my Stude friends came over and looked at my stuff, kind of winced, and ran away.
All my forum friends came over and chatted about everything under the sun.
Drove almost 2,000 miles round trip (at 10.8 avg mpg). Don't tell my wife that, though.
Complaints? None...Not a damned one. Well, the weather, but it sucked that week all over the country. Sooo what..
Disappointments? None.
I had fun... No... I had FUN!
Nuff said.
(1) Did not walk the vendor buildings.
(2) Did not walk the show field.
(3) Did not go downtown (dinner, or host hotel, or First Friday parade).
(4) Did not go on the building tour.
(5) Did not go to the test track.
(6) Did not do any AOAI stuff.
Here is my complaint list.......
(1) No complaints
Here is my disappointment list.....
(1) No disappointments
I had a blast. A crazy weather beating, full on, blast.
Met sooo many great people. Heard sooo many stories, was dragged around to dinner and into the back of motels for impromptu Avanti land speed demonstrations (best done when the brakes work), fire trucks trying to run me down. It was nutz.
I have no complaints. I need no trinkets, as I have too many now.
(besides, my trinkets weighed 61 pounds and 31 pounds respectively).
The SDC meet people ran in to see if I was all right several times (but never with free food, which I was kind of hoping for).
Ed George was kind enough to keep his wife up until 3am in the hospitality suite talking to me about Portillo's hot dogs and Giordano's deep dish pizza.
All my Stude friends came over and looked at my stuff, kind of winced, and ran away.
All my forum friends came over and chatted about everything under the sun.
Drove almost 2,000 miles round trip (at 10.8 avg mpg). Don't tell my wife that, though.
Complaints? None...Not a damned one. Well, the weather, but it sucked that week all over the country. Sooo what..
Disappointments? None.
I had fun... No... I had FUN!
Nuff said.
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