Back From Holiday!
We are back home after our 2 week OTHG-Phoenix hotrod road trip to Pueblo, CO for the NSRA car show, Royal Groge, Flaming Groge, Logan UT for the Cache Valley Cruise In, Bryce Canyon, The Cedar Breaks, and Zion National Parks. We were joined by our usual cruising buddies; Jerry & Carol Elliot, Paul & Judy Nolte, Ken Schaff & Dee Giuntoli plus Jim & Jackie Councilman and Ron & Jan Ohmstead for the whole trip. Dave & Anne Bennett and Frank & Rose Svancara rode with us up to Pueblo and then went their seperate ways. Bob & Betty Bailey and Barney & Donna Wilkins met up with us for the Logan show. Dave Bennett rejoined the cruise near the end to go through Bryce Canyon with us.
We drove over 2500 miles in 2 weeks and had a great time with our friends.
I am currently going though around 7000 photos that were captured by Carol, Dee, Judy and I – I hope to get something posted on the OTHG-Phoenix.net site by early next week. I also have several other photo/design committments that I have to complete this month, so I probably wont have much time for the Dodge until August.
Happy New Year!
I must say that I have never been so glad to see a new year starting!
2009 was not a good year and I am really glad to see it disappearing in my rear view mirror. We lost too many friends and had too many friends have too many problems with their health, wealth and families. Michelle and I hope that 2010 brings good health, happiness and well-being to all of our friends and family!
Happy Thanksgiving!
We had a great time visiting with our friend Elisabeth from Munich. We toured some of the local sights, but mainly kicked back, relaxing and catching up on what has been going on with each other.
Shortly after we got Elisabeth on a plane to Honolulu we headed back down to the valley for the Goodguys Southwest Nationals at West World in Scottsdale. The weather was excellent and we had a great turn out of cars with several that I had not seen before. Best of all we had a chance to visit and go to dinner with many of our friends.
I am happy to report that Judy Nolte is doing quite well with her breast cancer treatment. She just had her 4th of 6 chemo treatments and was feeling quite well with most of the normal side effects well under control. We will be planning a cruise next year when she finishes her treatments next spring!
I have spent most of the week building a home server and getting it up and operational. It will allow me to have access to all my photos and files from anywhere on my LAN and also from the internet so that I can upload and process photos while on the road. I also set up an account for my fellow club members so that they could easily send me photos for our website www.othg-phoenix.net
As soon as I finish rearranging all of my files and folders and getting everything backed up, I will start converting all of the computers over to Windows 7 for maximium compatability. After that I have some photo projects and web updates to finish then we will be back down to the Valley for our club Christmas Party. With luck I should be able to get back to the Dodge by the second week of December.
Bringing Things Up To Date …
Okay, with the last post I have caught this journal up with what has been posted on Hotrodding.com. I have a number of updates to post before the Journal is up to date with what has been happening in the shop.
Speaking of which, I need to head out to the shop and finish up the brake pedal mount and mounting the gas pedal from the Durango. I am getting close to pulling the engine and transmission so that I can fabricate the new firewall.
