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Jan 18th Memorial Cruise To Cameron, Texas Pics!

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dsw7311

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We did it 41 AV's! Pics to follow just walked in the door have to down load pics and edit them. This ought to be front page of the Magazine! have a lot of stitching to do hopefully will have High Res photo on tonight.
Thanks everyone! Had a great time.
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In attendance from closest to furthest: Goo929 mobile (Petes parents), TexaAvfan, gandolphxx, D_M_Longley, Dave02Z66, avz66, blackthree4me, Bruno, Budman, mmdavidw (from Fla), Johnny_D, Discrete, dguernsey, Avtanked, wonder91178, NascarDave, Digital_X, farmguy, Edward_K (Tenn.), TXAVy, Mitchell_D, norseman, Hernz Av, kps, chubbsav, big_dog, TribalAV, musiks, Texascwgrl, GA-GA, killerMWD, Miss Avalanche, cybercop, MJ, SA_AVY , Rich Hartman, shaddowfax, Arrival Mike, lifted_Z66, byron, HD & Cindy Bolch (locals)

 
HELLO!

I made it home, safe and sound! ?;D

I wanted to thank everyone that showed up, we broke the record, goo would be proud! I hope everyone had a good time, I did (Thanks AVtanked for the clean up job ?;) and Tribal for the 3rd brake light decal ?(y) ). I hope goo's parents had a good time, I saw his dad turn and smile and it made me feel 1000% better!

Can't wait to do it again ya'll!!

There's 2 people I would like to thank, for one, MissAvalanche who has graciously agreed to be the ACA moderator on the TX site....this completes the maintenance/manangement crew on the site, so everyone who has access to part or all of the site, you guys are it! If we need help I will call on those of you who have offered to help, so let me thank ya'll in advance also ?;D

I want to say a big THANK YOU to TexAVfan for making this all happen and getting us permission to park in front of the courthouse and getting the museum to open early just for us! You are one of the best!! ?:love:

THANK YOU GANDOLPH!!!! The TX site would have been dissolved without your help. I hope in the coming days we can re-announce its opening! ;D

Kim
 
WOW !!! 41 Avalanches !!! That Record will not be broken for a long time.

Just got in had a Great time on the cruise good food great friends lots of fine AV's.

Roland
 
41!

Eat your hearts out - this is the new bar - we collected a new member in Cameron - wahoo!!!

Nice day, great folks and just plain fun ;D
 
WOW! :eek: 41! I am so impressed! I know you guys made Goo so proud!

Heck, I'm proud of you all too... Way to Go Texas! (y)
 
It was an awesome time. I don't know who or how, but that picture stitching is going to take some work. There were sooooooooooooooooo many.

Thanks to all who got this put together. You know who you are. This will be a long standing record. GO TEXANS!!
 
I wouldn't think of a better way to have sent my birthday than with my brothers & sisters AVers. ?41 AVs, what a great turn out. I know GOO is proud of us. ?:love:

Special thanks to Richard, Dave, Kim and all of you who did so much work on the cruise.

(Ziggy said he can't wait till the next meet ?;D)
 
First off - Thanks to everyone for showing up - 41 is an awesome turn out. Planned for 30, hoped for 35 and got 41. ?Secondly a big Thanks to Dave and Kim for all the work they put in to this cruise, thanks to Brian (Bruno) and David (NASCARDAVE) for taking their usual great pics. To everyone who donated prizes to our cruise prize drawing. ?Thirdly Thanks to Edward K and mmdavidw for coming such a long way to be our guests (Memphis TN. and Florida respectively). ?
Also I would like to Thank Petes Parents, Mr and Mrs Sauceda and his niece for joining us on this Memorial cruise for GOO929 and bringind his AV along.
Last but not least the town of Cameron TX for hosting us and working with us to set up a great time, Charles for opening the museum for us when he planned to be closed to attend a wedding in Fort Worth, Tammy at the Cameron Chamber of Commerce for arranging our parking permission on the town square and The Wolfes who own The Texan Cafe that feed us all some really good down home cookin, and donated a T-shirt to our prize chest.

Awards for Cleanest AV went to Johnny_D
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Farthest Traveled to mmdavidw from Florida
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Honorable Mention for Dedication behind the ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?scenes (Honorary Goo929 for a day) to Jack - Gandolphxx
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BUDMAN said:
Great job on the stitching, NascarDave. Looks just like I remember.
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thank OLYMPUS! I just had a steady hand when changing the angles on the tripod :) the software did all the work... the linear stitch shots have too much lens distortion to put together :(
 
Here is how the Dallas Ft Worth crew started out the morning.
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14 AV's together after the 9 Dallas members and the 5 Fort Worth members joined at the Loves Travel Stop in Hillsboro, Tx 9:45 am
 
With the Houston group already in town, the D/FW members arrive and begin the parking in front of the Milam County courthouse and park. The city allowed for us to violate the diagonal parking and utilize back in ?parking.
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And yes wonder91178 backed in to her space very well! ;D
 
OK, try this:

Take out bed panel No. 1. Fold down the mid-gate, but leave the glass in -- this is important to get the full accoustical effect. At a high rate of speed, hit the rumble strips they cut into the asphalt shoulder on I-35, the little inch-deep grooves just outside of the solid white line at the right of the right-hand lane. Now, in the instant you first hear the God-awful noise of the tires running across the grooves, count all the possible things that could have gone horribly wrong with the truck before you realize you just screwed up and drifted out of your lane.....

Thank you all for a great day! Even the dogs seemed to have a good time.
 
kps said:
OK, try this:

Take out bed panel No. 1. ?Fold down the mid-gate, but leave the glass in -- this is important to get the full accoustical effect. ?At a high rate of speed, hit the rumble strips they cut into the asphalt shoulder on I-35, the little inch-deep grooves just outside of the solid white line at the right of the right-hand lane. ?Now, ?in the instant you first hear the God-awful noise of the tires running across the grooves, count all the possible things that could have gone horribly wrong with the truck before you realize you just screwed up and drifted out of your lane.....

Thank you all for a great day! ?Even the dogs seemed to have a good time.
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kps- for a minute there after I started reading I thought you were gonna say you ended up in a ditch! Glad you made it home ok (bumpity bumpity bumpity >:D)
 
Here's a shot from today. Thanks to the organizers and the coordinators for putting together a fun event.
 

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Norseman said:
Here's a shot from today. Thanks to the organizers and the coordinators for putting together a fun event.
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Norseman this is a great shot! Ya know after looking at the picture I got chills! Goo was with us. If you look at the Av at the closest right thats is Goos his is the only one with starburst reflections on it and there is a hint of purple. Maybe its me.
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How about this one?!
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One "convoy" shot of the DFW group running down 77
 

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I see what you are talking about Dave - it is a star with purple rays coming out the front. Man does that send chills through ya or what?
 
Ok, on with the show, now the Alamo City Avalanche members arrive.
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They're still coming!
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after all the usual chat and picture takings we all went into the Museum which was the old Jail house and sherriffs residence.
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The Shreiff and his family lived downstairs while the inmates were upstairs in Iron cells.
The Denstist was located on the second floor, there were even teeth on a plaque that he had on the wall
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TexAVfan said:
I see what you are talking about Dave - it is a star with purple rays coming out the front. Man does that send chills ?through ya or what?
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Thats just Petes way of telling us he is with us.
 
of course what would a cruise be with out the usual mods and amber DRL exchange?! Robert (Discrete) and Drew (Digital_X) on Discrete's AV
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Got my sail panels from Arrival Mike that I won back on Dec 1st in Lockhart, Texas
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They look Awsome I might say!
 
wow cool pics I had a great time. ;D a great big thanks to all that contributed there time on this outing. the shot of goos truck with the sparkle should be a front page somewhere to remind us of his continuing watch over his baby the avalanche club. it was good to see old faces as well as some new friends. what a great looking bunch of trucks. I showd my dad the pics and he said thats alot of money sitting there. :rolleyes: never thought about it like that I just saw a bunch of nice people who love there trucks :cool: see ya soon and most more picks when ya can. Im out blackthree4me
 
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