"Driving is the pitts", yes it is. When I drive to the Gathering it takes about 3-1/2 hours of Interstate driving and seems like it will never end, "ARE WE THERE YET?" but when I flew down it only took 1-1/4 hours and was over all to soon. Keep building guys.
---- Dan Heath <da...@windstream.net> wrote: > KR Gathering pics and Slide Show link are at: > http://krbuilder.org/KRGathering2012/index.html > > > > > > Drove the last 11 hour leg of the trip to and from the Gathering yesterday. > It rained from just outside Atlanta to about 25 miles from my house and by > then it was dark. I was fearful of my life, but then, totally convinced > that I made the right choice to leave the Black Bird where she was safe. > > > > Even with the continual agonizing over having to leave my Bird at home, it > was a great Gathering. Russ's Baby was certainly a hit and a very > appropriate version of the KR2 for the 40th anniversary. He took Best > Paint, Best KR, and Peoples' Choice. In my humble opinion, he deserved > every one of them. You will see his plane front and center of the big > Gathering picture that Dave Mullins took, like they did several years ago. > > > > Getting 10 KRs to show up with the weather so bad, shows how much the > Builders want to contribute to this event, some of them even risk their life > and come very close to losing it. But in this case, I should have used the > plural "lives", because apparently Steve has several of them. As I saw him > walking around the Gathering and talking to people, it was a bit "surreal" > because you could never tell that he had been through that horrible ordeal. > He always had a smile on his face and when asked about the accident, would > find a way to put a positive slant on it, like, "I was going to replace that > firewall anyway". He was an inspiration to me, just by his being there. > > > > > > > > See N64KR at <http://krbuilder.org/> http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on > the pics > > See you at the 2013 - KR Gathering in Mt. Vernon, Il - MVN > > Bad Weather at Gathering time, is a killer or a real bummer. > > Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
