Corvette Cruise I

Okay, so.......we've been gone a lot this year so far and more to come.  But I'm going to take a page out of my daughter-in-law, Irene's, book and put a bunch of pictures on here with short comments to catch you all up, whoever you are:

Not even sure where this is, but I can see the Olympics or Cascades, so we were still in Washington, starting the long fast haul to Bowling Green, Kentucky--this was August 22.  We picked up clubs from other regions as we traveled, often in a long line of Corvettes whizzing down the highway.  We were on our way to the National Corvette Museum for the 20th Anniversary of the Museum.  Corvette drivers from all over the nation and Canada converged there on August 27th.

A rest stop somewhere--it's flat--could have been Eastern Washington, Idaho or Montana.....

At our second Chevrolet dealership where we got a lunch of our first pulled-pork sandwiches.  We ate a lot of those over the next few days.

The ranks were growing.  Don't have a clue where this is, but it's raining.  Something else we saw lots of during the 6-day trip to Kentucky.

One of our group ogling the animal heads in a Chevy dealership in maybe Montana--at least somewhere where they do a lot of hunting!  And you can see many Corvetters chowing down on pulled-pork, probably.

When Barbara and I walked into this rest stop restroom, we nearly fled--had to check the door sign to make sure it was meant for us.  Those were "sinks".

One of our group digging in the trunk for rain gear.  This event was a private auto collection and lunch.  Guess what was for lunch?

At the private collection was this beautiful 1953 (first year) Corvette.

By August 24th we were in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they had a collection of art boots.

The next day on our way to Lincoln, Nebraska, we stopped at the Great Platte River Road Archway in Kearny, NE.

The arch spans highway 80 and housed a very nice pioneer museum.

Two scenes in the pioneer museum.

Finally at Lincoln, Nebraska, many cars chose to park on the roof.  We could see drivers cleaning their cars from our room.  The Holiday Inn in Nebraska was a nice hotel, cookies in the lobby and a coffee shop a short walk down the street.  The parking garage was scary though, very narrow corners.
All the hotels we stayed at on the road to Kentucky gave us complimentary breakfasts.  Very generous of them.

Before we left Lincoln for Columbia, Missouri we had a stop to make.  Here hundreds of us are parked at the wonderful Museum of American Speed.  My first reaction when I heard the name of the place was "ho-hum", but it turned out to be lots more than just cars.

My favorite car in the museum--too bad I couldn't get far enough away to get the front end in--
a long car, and isn't that a beautiful blue color?

Lots of speedy cars of course, including Hedy Lamar's caddy.

This section was my very favorite part--kids cars from the very beginning of cars, some more like wagons.

And then, and then, and then!!!! Two walls covered with old lunch boxes!!!!!  Wow!!!!!

My lunch bucket was one of those red plaid ones.  I loved it.  And my thermos was plaid, too.

Next post will be our entry into Bowling Green, Kentucky on August 27th and what we did when we got there.