Off to meet the Rolling Bones

We met at the Copper Lantern for breakfast Sunday morning at 6:30. After a great meal we left at 7:30, headed down Highway 10 to Monticello to meet 2 more cars.There was my black RPU, my blue roadster driven by Darrin, Terry Y and his 34 Chevy, Terry N with the 40 coupe and Lumpy in the Divco beer truck. The meeting place was Holiday station....news to me, there is one on each side of the highway and of course I stopped at the east side and they were waiting on the west side...after a few minutes of waiting, Lumpy called their cell and we found them. So it was off to the other station. We picked up Eugene in his deuce roadster and John in his 34 Ford delivery.
I was appointed the leader so off we went on I94, to 494 thru the city and south on I35....traffic was light, a cool Sunday morning so we were "rolling".... 80 to 85. The first gas stop was Lakeville, we all got gas and off again to Clear lake, IA for the next gas stop and to pick up Randy in his 41 Packard. I called Dave to let him know we were on time, in fact about 45 minutes early. Back onto I35 to Des Moines. We made it to Dave's shop about 12:45. There he made us a great pork sandwich. We toured his shop and looked at his toys. His buddy Matt with his 50's built Deuce 5 window came too.
We headed across town to the motel where we were to meet the "Bones". Checked in and set up camp in the back of the hotel lot, canopy, tapped the keg, set up a couple of grills and set back to enjoy.
The bones arrived about 6 PM with the last of them arriving about 7ish. I think there were 10 rods, two trucks/trailers with race cars and a race bike. There were about 6 other local rods that came to the party too.
Monday morning the Bones and the Hoodlums had breakfast at the cool diner next door. After breakfast we all got into our cars and headed out, the Hoodlums up state 65 and the Bones headed west on I80. It was a fun time.
We toured the auto museum in the little town of Williams, IA. They have a very nice display of many neat old cars. Then it was over to I35 and headed north towards home.
Just south of the cities we had a couple close encounters with a couple of state troopers but it all worked out fine.
I arrived home about 4:30. The GPS showed 700 miles exactly. The "fun meter" was pegged all the way.......a real fun time. Thanks to all the Hoodlums that came along with me, now they know how my summers go. Eight hot rods, eleven hoodlums, 700 miles, one keg of beer equals a fun weekend!!