Tuesday

No blog last night..............we went to the hotel bar, they had a drink special, buy one get one free...we kept buying one and the free ones just kept coming......by the time we quit, I was too blurry eyed to type anything !!! LOL ********************************************************************* We left Ankeny, Iowa about 8 AM and headed for Madison, Wisconsin. We stopped at a private collection of vintage sports cars in Blue Mound, WI. It was a very interesting place, not my kind of cars but I enjoyed seeing them. Shortly after Blue Mounds, we were driving on four lane Hwy 151, speed limit of 60, we were cruising about 70ish when we spotted a trooper, backed off, then a blue van came flying by us.....next thing we knew the trooper was coming behind us, but went by us and got the van. We were not sure for a couple of minutes who he was after. We stopped at Culvers for lunch...the first meal we had to buy on the trip. It started to rain, I ran out to cover the car, the rain had turned to clear ice pellets, not

white like hail, just clear ice. At 5PM we took the big shuttle bus from the hotel to Richard's Munz's private collection....a 3 story old brick building in downtown Madison. You can drive to all three floors. Full of hot rods, mostly 32's, 40's 36's and a few race cars. All hot rods. signs, collectables. He had catered a great BBQ pork with all the trimmings, birthday cake, beer, cookies. A great party!! I saw old friends from Madison and met several new ones. Al has a killer deuce phaeton highboy.....wow. John showed me photos of a B400 that he is building from a tudor...really nice. A fun evening. Back to the hotel, the bar and to bed.