Man I am exhausted from my virtual tour of Nelson but I will recover
shortly. Thanks to those who were kind enough to take us along with them
for the play by play. Sounds like a beautiful area to Healey in.
I can only imagine how hot it must have been in those shake and bake ovens
on wheels but
hopefully after over insulating mine I will never find out.
Well I guess I'll start getting ready for the next drive along next year.
Maybe I'll actually have my car ready to , "drive along".
Thanks again, Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: <bighealey@charter.net>
To: "John Trifari" <jtrifari@comcast.net>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: Back from Nelson
> John,
>
> Great to hear you and Steve are back save and sound. We are stiil at it
> up here in Canada. We have a number of folks on the after tour and just
> went through Banff today. What beautiful country this is. Steve Pike and
> John Wilson headed on to Calgary and Don Bonderaunt and his wife headed
> south to Texas. We will tour for 4 more days although the big wildfire
> near St Mary's Montana will likely have us skirt Glacier National Park.
> After the tour I'll pop over to Bill Bolton's for an overnight and
> possibly stop at John Wilson's on my way out to the coast for my return
> run south back down the coast to the Golden Gate Bridge then on to Morgan
> Hill.
>
> A huge thanks to the BC crew for throwing such a great Healey event!! Its
> great to get to see old friends make new friends, and to put faces to
> names.
>
> Happy Trails
>
> Tracy
>
> ---- John Trifari <jtrifari@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Saturday PM. I'm back home in Sunnyvale CA; Steve Cloyes is probably
>> sitting
>> with his feet up at home in Walnut Creek. We departed Nelson BC at 5 AM
>> yesterday (Friday) and crossed the border at Rossland. Great morning run
>> down
>> WA 25 to US 395 at Kettle Falls and breakfast. Continued down 395 through
>> Spokane (don't want to do that again) to Pasco/Richland and across into
>> OR for
>> lunch. Hot afternoon. Pulled over in the shade in John Day and let the
>> cars
>> cool down. Continued on 395 south to Burns OR, then west on 20/395 and
>> 395
>> south across the desert at sunset. Great road. Night time brought out
>> all
>> the varmints and I came close to ace-ing Bugs Bunny. Gassed up at
>> Lakeview OR
>> and continued into Alturas CA where we tied up for the night. Steve
>> calculated 799 miles. Today down 299 to I-5 at Redding and onto I-505 to
>> I-80/I-680 into the Bay Area. Both the BN1 and Steve's BN4 performed
>> with a
>> hitch. Great show. Congrats to all who made the drive. Nelson a great
>> site;
>> the tour through New Denver outstanding. Thanks to all from the BC club
>> for
>> their hard work.
>>
>> John Trifari Golden Gate Austin Healey Club
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