![]() ![]() We had one rainstorm, but we could see it way off, so I got the curtains on in time. I forgot to look at the odometer when I got out. Right now, six blocks sounds like a wonderful tour distance. ![]() Here are some excerpts from Mike’s emails about the trip. Mike and Jennifer’s road trip to and from Louisville turned out to be quite an adventure, which is pretty much a given for any vintage British sports car. (“I’ve only owned red cars,” he said, “except for the blue MGB/GT that Mike now owns.”) Rick’s wife came too but drove separately. Louis suburb in a red C6 Corvette convertible to visit with us. In addition to Jennifer, Maureen, Mike and me, Mike’s friend Rick was present at breakfast. Thus, we arranged to have breakfast at Courtesy Diner, a 1950s restaurant a few miles from where Maureen lives, the morning after. Louis to visit Maureen the same night Mike did. We’re in Lincoln tonight, and tomorrow night is St. “No, we missed Colorado,” Mike replied, “and went straight across east into Nebraska. (I last saw Mike when he did so for the national MGB convention in Breckenridge in June 2009.) Laramie is only 60 miles north of my home in Fort Collins, so I inquired whether Mike would be passing through Colorado at all. The message Dan forwarded said they were going to be in Laramie, Wyoming. ![]() His friend Jennifer was driving her red 1970 MGB roadster. Mike was driving his light blue MGA roadster, which he got in 1974 while he was still in high school. My friend Dan Shockey had forwarded me a message from our mutual friend Mike Jacobsen of San Francisco, who was traveling to Louisville, Kentucky with his friend Jennifer of Vancouver, British Columbia. But happily, now and then I hear from-or even see-old friends from the car club who have remained faithful to their British sports cars. It’s been almost nine years since I sold my 1969 MGB, and at least eleven years since last being part of the MG Owners Club. ![]()
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