Hello Everyone
I just loaded my pics in the gallery!
Sorry it has taken so long to write this all down as we were exhausted from our 700 mile (are you reading this Don?) journey to Washington and Maryland last weekend, and business travel started again on Tuesday. I have finally shrunk my pictures down enough to post them in the gallery and I hope you all enjoy them.
The weather forecast for last Saturday was for 60 degrees and drizzle, but we thought we would have a good time anyway…boy, were we surprised when we got to Annapolis and found blue and sunny skies and 72 degrees. We can’t imagine a more beautiful situation to show off our 968s. I believe the final count was 9 cars and we certainly attracted a lot of attention. It was great to finally meet George (Huskydog) and his umm..Husky. 968ers just seem to keep popping out of the woodwork. We met Bill from Solomon’s and Tim from Potomac Region who hadn’t been to any of our events before. We spent 4 hours polishing our cars and chatting with the many curious onlookers and got a chance to catch up with old friends and get to know new ones. One young man showed up with his $1,200 first Porsche (944). His father told me he wanted his son to learn on a project car to build respect for his vehicle. Until last week the car sat outside and unwashed, but when he heard about our gathering the car suddenly got a wash and wax, and of course needed to be kept covered in the garage…how’s that for a first step toward Porsche-mania?
The ride through Annapolis was amazing! I will never tire of the look on peoples faces as they notice a single rare Porsche, and then another, another, and another,,,
The ride through the Maryland countryside out to St. Michael’s island was beautiful and challenging. Don’t worry about a few missed turns, I don’t think I’ve been on a fun run yet that didn’t have a bit of confusion, its all in how you handle it, and we could tell that the smile never left your face. Lynn was a great addition, if any of you single 968ers are interested in dating her send a picture (of your car…lol). How about a 2 968 family for Kathy (like Mark and Kim, no fighting over who gets the Porsche today).
Upon our arrival in St. Michael’s we of course made ourselves right at home, creating our own row of parking. Since we were blocking a couple of busses they offered to switch with us and we created an impromptu corral.
The crabs were spectacular, the beer flowed (not too freely) and as always I am amazed at how many topics this group can discuss other than our cars.
The day came to an end with our following Darryl and Christine back toward DC (did I mention that I HATE driving anywhere near DC?).
Probably I should continue our saga under a different topic, but since I’m on a roll here I may as well continue. Darryl offered to help me make my new iPod purchase more permanent by setting up my stereo. I have been living with only back speakers for a while and now that the car is performing well its time for some “tuneage”. We met at his shop around 10AM and with the exception of lunch Darryl spent his whole day with me taking the car apart and finding out all of the intricacies of the stereo system (I’ll share pictures of my rear speaker boxes with built in amp, tweeter, woofer in a different thread). DARRYL/CHRISTINE Thank you So much!!! I’ll try to find a way to thank you appropriately; I could never figure this out on my own.
As we rode off into the sunset, iPod blasting and the top down, we finished our trip to DC in a horrible traffic jam when we found I-495 closed around Wilmington, DE. No problem for us, we worked our way through back roads and around Kennett Square and Longwood Gardens (Hmmm…might be an interesting Fun Run Route).
Regards,
Jay
