Day One Rod Fathers Tour

I left this morning at 7:45. It was cool, some where in the high 40's. Seat heaters and the hot air heater felt good on my bare legs. The sweatshirt felt good too. I stopped for gas in Lakeville and again in Clear Lake IA. The sweatshirt came off about noon in Ames. I got to Dave's shop about 1:30, right on time. Ron from Florida showed up about 30 minutes later. After a short tour of the shop we left for Lincoln. We had a late quick lunch at Mc Donalds somewhere west of Des Moines. It was a good drive. Dave led to set the pace, this is his first out of town trip in the roadster. He took off at about 65, then 70 quickly settled in at 75 or so. The car ran fine. We arrived in Lincoln, got gas, checked in at the hotel and wlked across the lot to Carlos O'Kellys. Before we got toO'Kellys I called buddy Roger Nunn to see if he wanted to join us....guess what, he and others friends were already there. Rich, Diane, Jerry and his wife. We joined them at their table and 5 rodders from AZ walked in. More deuce guys. We had a great dinner and BS session. Before we left another car with four gys from Kansas came in. That was Roger Ward and his buddies. I had met one of them on the way home from CA last June, that was great to see him again. I had a nice conversation with Roger Ward. I had not met him before but have admired his deuce and his work. He is an awesome painter and builder. He has a beautiful ivory deuce roadster that is always in Des Moines. Todays trip was 500 mles, nice weather, lots of fun, good friends an great day. in the morning its over to Speedway

to meet the tour gang...gonna be fun