Day 8

Here is our Bad Form 5 - Bryan Crute (also called Herschel when the later was gone), moi, Bubba, Chris and ray)

Ray and the Moo Cow.

Well, Day 6 and 7 for the blog went the way of long days and a tired brain. We are in Nashville tonight having stayed in Batesville Arkansas last night. I leave the trip tomorrow while the group goes on to NC.

I have been surprised at how much I have actually enjoyed this journey. The trip has been part expedition, part wild man, and part chilled-out. For exmple, yesterday coming out of Eureka Springs Arkansas I had been travelling in the back group and we got seperated by several miles from the head of the group. So much so that we passed through at little town and the police had already released the traffic. One of our Marshalls passed me with the clear intent of catching up with the main group. I barely hung with him as we hit 100 mph on the straight aways and flew through the corners...it was a major rush!! Thats the wild man part. Then there were hours on straight aways accross Kansas that was definately chill time!

I got to talking wiht Herchel Walker today about his book on his struggles with Dissociation and discovered that my friend Jerry Mungadze, a psychologist from Zimbabwe, was part of his story. Very small world. (Picture to the right)

ServiceMaster through a big lunch party coming through Mephis today, complete with their new Nascar car and pit equipment on display. You can see them on the video.

The Memphis police actually closed off the freeways so that we had no cars with us going out of town. They led us out at 55mph and the moment they pulled off it was wide open throttles and this whole crew hit 90-95mph. A few miles later one of the lead marshals (they travel out in front to scout the road) pulled off to a cop car in the median and had the cop frisk him spread out on the back of his car when we came by. It was a hoot!

Weather: A few miles out of Nashville we met our first rain drops. The weather has been amazing. It rained 6 straight days in Washington before we left (including our arrival day) and the sun broke out the morning we left. In Kansas City a front came through right after we arrived with torrential rain, and then sun and cool air greeted us the the next morning. We followed the front down to Batesville where is was flooding and the sun was out!

Check out the last clip in the video of the strom over Nashville as we approached. The streets were wet with a recent shower, the clouds were dark, and as we pulled into the hotel garage downtown the rain started.

We have been blessed indeed.