This weekend is a proverbial Red Flannel Hash of events for just about everyone.
We have a Rod Run in Fryeburg starting on Friday and going to Sunday. Adult fun and no awards to speak of. Burgers and beer sounds like a good thing and Hot Rods as a bonus.
Windham is in full dress with all its festivities including a parade and of course trophies.
Togus is firing up the BBQ grill to help get the Veteran's get in the mood with a scaled back version of its previous self. The Rusty Nuts are making some changes that could prove to be beneficial to the entire program.
Then way down Springvale way is Shaw's Ridge Farm. They and the local Chamber of Commerce are doing a Cruise In with some fine BBQ and homemade ice cream.
Biddeford will be hopping with a little morning gathering put on by Maine Coastal Cruisers.
Cherryfield is doing a show of some sort but can anybody tell me where Cherryfield is without a map?
Sunday is another day of choices with your usual line up of a Cheap Ass Trophy Show in Harrison or a Cruise In up in Dover Foxcroft.
6/18/12
6/17/12
What Goes on in Other States
Here we are on Fathers Day, going to the same venue for what seems like eons, seeing the same faces only this time with no awards. Oh and I didn't attend the function at that same venue for the first time since 1994. That doesn't count the years that Mother Nature closed the venue.
Instead I visited Massholevania for the Goodguys Rod & Custom Associations, East Coast Nationals in West Springfield at the "Big E", with a hotel full of fellow Mainers and about 1500 other participants.
Great weather and tons of food meant a fun time was had by all as long as you weren't driving. A conclusion has been made on one fact. The roads in Massholevania are worse than those in the State of Maine. If you drove in Springfield you saw even worse roads than in the surrounding areas. Potholes and Dips that would make you pucker your ass so tight you wouldn't fart for a month or shit for a week.
At one point seeing a sign for uneven pavement was a joke as it led to the smoothest 10 miles on the Mass Pike. It took us 4 hours to get there via main roads at 75 to 80 mph with four lanes of traffic most of the way. The way home was via back roads that were better than goat path but worse than a Skidder Trail and that lasted only about an hour or a little longer. North of Holyoke was better but then we hit Vermont and scenery to die for after that. 4.5 hours later we were home after a stop for fuel and lunch.
All in All a great time except the drive thru Massholevania. I'd recommend this event to anyone but check your shocks before and after.
Instead I visited Massholevania for the Goodguys Rod & Custom Associations, East Coast Nationals in West Springfield at the "Big E", with a hotel full of fellow Mainers and about 1500 other participants.
Great weather and tons of food meant a fun time was had by all as long as you weren't driving. A conclusion has been made on one fact. The roads in Massholevania are worse than those in the State of Maine. If you drove in Springfield you saw even worse roads than in the surrounding areas. Potholes and Dips that would make you pucker your ass so tight you wouldn't fart for a month or shit for a week.
At one point seeing a sign for uneven pavement was a joke as it led to the smoothest 10 miles on the Mass Pike. It took us 4 hours to get there via main roads at 75 to 80 mph with four lanes of traffic most of the way. The way home was via back roads that were better than goat path but worse than a Skidder Trail and that lasted only about an hour or a little longer. North of Holyoke was better but then we hit Vermont and scenery to die for after that. 4.5 hours later we were home after a stop for fuel and lunch.
All in All a great time except the drive thru Massholevania. I'd recommend this event to anyone but check your shocks before and after.
6/14/12
Adding to the Mix
So just to add something to our grand plans we have a couple of things that we can do this weekend. Then we have word of a few things for the next weekend that can be added to the things we already have.
We can go to Bailey's Campground to the Dom Santoro Car Show or we can go to the Hodgman's Father's fun Day Cruise In .
Now I've seen the Dom Santoro thing advertised for many years and have yet to find anybody that will admit to being there as a participant or a spectator. So that tells me...
Hodgman's could prove to be a good time with our weather predicted to be dam near perfect and the pressure of being a trophy whore off for the weekend. Just kickin it with your buds ought to be fun. Besides you can watch the trophy whore crowd go through withdrawals from not having their fix of $25.00 Cheap Ass Trophies.
Rumor has it that Tim up at Past Gas & Ancient Oil in Sumner is doing something on Dad's Day but I haven't nailed down anything other than rumor.
The following weekend we have way to many choices on Saturday and Sunday. I'll touch on them briefly now with more details next week.
Windham, Togus, Rod Run, and now word has come that Shaw's Ridge is added to the mix. That's Saturday. Then you get Harrison or Dover Foxcroft on Sunday.
We can go to Bailey's Campground to the Dom Santoro Car Show or we can go to the Hodgman's Father's fun Day Cruise In .
Now I've seen the Dom Santoro thing advertised for many years and have yet to find anybody that will admit to being there as a participant or a spectator. So that tells me...
Hodgman's could prove to be a good time with our weather predicted to be dam near perfect and the pressure of being a trophy whore off for the weekend. Just kickin it with your buds ought to be fun. Besides you can watch the trophy whore crowd go through withdrawals from not having their fix of $25.00 Cheap Ass Trophies.
Rumor has it that Tim up at Past Gas & Ancient Oil in Sumner is doing something on Dad's Day but I haven't nailed down anything other than rumor.
The following weekend we have way to many choices on Saturday and Sunday. I'll touch on them briefly now with more details next week.
Windham, Togus, Rod Run, and now word has come that Shaw's Ridge is added to the mix. That's Saturday. Then you get Harrison or Dover Foxcroft on Sunday.
6/10/12
Nancy Sinatra
Name the song and win absolutely nothing.
So I went for a walk and a car show broke out.
In Cumberland, I think, maybe. Walked far enough to think I was on fucking Pluto.
My choice was the Farmers Assoc. Show put on at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. for once a show at that venue that didn't entail mud and rain. However it did entail a shit load of walking and that was just to get to the bathroom.
The weather was great and smiles all around the place seemed to make it a great show and where it was their first real chance to get a bunch of cars without rain I won't beat them up. Let's just say they need to work on some things.
I had fun, we had fun, we walked a mile to the bathroom and back. Next year will be better, hopefully, maybe, we wish.
Added at 2:39PM Monday
Evidently I missed the best part to a show that needs work, that being the awards ceremony. This coupled with the other items in need of fixin' are probably the ingredients for the recipe that will kill this show.
To Bad I Had Fun
So I went for a walk and a car show broke out.
In Cumberland, I think, maybe. Walked far enough to think I was on fucking Pluto.
My choice was the Farmers Assoc. Show put on at the Cumberland Fairgrounds. for once a show at that venue that didn't entail mud and rain. However it did entail a shit load of walking and that was just to get to the bathroom.
The weather was great and smiles all around the place seemed to make it a great show and where it was their first real chance to get a bunch of cars without rain I won't beat them up. Let's just say they need to work on some things.
I had fun, we had fun, we walked a mile to the bathroom and back. Next year will be better, hopefully, maybe, we wish.
Added at 2:39PM Monday
Evidently I missed the best part to a show that needs work, that being the awards ceremony. This coupled with the other items in need of fixin' are probably the ingredients for the recipe that will kill this show.
To Bad I Had Fun
6/6/12
Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe
As the waters receded they revealed some of the worst roads in Maine. Potholes that were filled are no longer, drainage ditches that couldn't handle the flow are now collapsed. Some roads are under repair and some will be closed for some time. So pick your route and be prepared for detours
That's the bad news. Now for the good news. We can choose which show we want to go to this weekend. We can also Cruise down to Biddeford on Saturday to enjoy the Maine Coastal Cruisers Monthly Cruise Night.
We have the venerable Bridgton Show, which is one of the few shows that actually has a rain date and they moved it off the mountain last year. The field chosen is more than adequate to hold their show. But with all this rain that means it is also adequate to hold water and if memory serves me there is a giant drainage pool at the far end of the field, now known as the town wash station. The other unfortunate thing is the rain date steps on a date chosen by the Cumberland Farmer Club. The thing I learned early in life was to never step on farmers toes, they have usually been stepping in shit.
The Cumberland Sho-n-Shine, I've been told will not be held on the track at the Cumberland Fairgrounds but the surrounding areas. Evidently a lesson was learned when Boney Beagle put on their clusterfuck in the rain and it turned into a mud run. They got rained out last year so the Sympathy vote goes to them.
I'm thinking that the new guy on the block may be getting my attention and that Bridgton with all its charm and ambiance is going to be second fiddle.
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