The touring I do, these days, takes two different forms: the first involves
tours that provide amusement for the wives, and less time actually driving
L. Still, because our group gets along so well and always likes to party,
in the evenings; it's always lots of fun. The second type of touring I do
is with a group of friends primarily from our local Triumph club. These
guys are, like me, hard core drivers and the more distance involved, the
greater the level of enjoyment. Our main event is our annual trek to the
Watkins Glen Vintage Festival & Races, the weekend after Labor Day. There
are actually three separate touring groups, due to differences in how much
time we can take off from work, and the insistence of one group about having
lunch at a certain Dive Bar in Jamestown, which puts them on the Lemming
Lanes for most of the trip to Watkins Glen. The other two groups feel they
are perfectly capable of finding their own damn Dive Bar around lunch time,
so we stick to the back roads, entirely. The Jamestown-stop group and my
group leave on Thursday morning, while the third group leaves on Friday
morning. While it normally takes about 5 hours to drive to Watkins Glen,
from the Pittsburgh area, we generally find a way to make an 8 to 10 hour
drive out of it and have a total blast doing it.
We stay at our B&B thru Monday morning, before splitting up into two groups.
One takes a back roads route home to Pittsburgh, while the other group
(retired guys have it nice!) head off into the Adirondacks & Catskills
through NY and VT (looking for micro-breweries, primarily, I think) to this
coming year's destination: the British Invasion at Stowe.
Other destinations for this group (which travels under what we call the
"Stutzman Rule"..no women) at various times of the year, have included Nova
Scotia, Road Atlanta, Sebring, Elkhart Lake and several others which I can't
recall right now. With either type of touring (with women and without
women), we have found that smaller groups are always a lot more fun, for a
variety of reasons besides safety.
My philosophy is that a group of two (cars) can have just as much fun (more,
probably) than a group of 5 or 10 can..and I've done it both ways enough
times to have proven my theory ;)
Bud
From: Miniac7 at aol.com [mailto:Miniac7 at aol.com]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 10:45 PM
To: abcoz at hky.com; spridgets at autox.team.net; midgetsprite at
yahoogroups.com;
bugeye at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] British Car Week - A Lap of Virginia
Absolutely, Bud...you've captured precisely the essence of our diving
weekend. I can't get enough of this stuff. I just have one heck of a time
finding enough people who want to spend that much time behind the wheel. Too
many people enjoy storing, working and looking at them vs getting out and
actually driving them.
I really do hope to get some Spridgets out for our Lap next year.
Howard
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