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Sat­ur­day dawns with a spec­tac­u­lar early Fall day, sunny, temps in the 50’s, great day for a road trip!  We left home at 9:00AM for our trip East down the Mass­a­chu­setts Turn­pike, it was a great ride.…  Boy, they sure don’t build cars like they used to, it was like rid­ing on our liv­ing room couch, the “Gray Lady” attracted much atten­tion on our 102 mile trip out.  I’m still a lit­tle freaked out by the atten­tion we get at 65 MPH, every­thing from peo­ple pulling along­side and giv­ing us the “thumbs up”, to peo­ple rolling down their win­dows and try­ing to carry on a con­ver­sa­tion, and this trip where a sub­ur­ban pulled up on our left side, snapped some pho­tos, moved back behind us to take some more, then finally came up our right side to take even more.  My god.… folks you do under­stand we are hurtling down the high­way at high speed, you really should be look­ing at where you are going!!  Never really though about “defen­sive dri­ving” until we started road trip­ping with this baby.….

We arrived at Cadil­lac Vil­lage, a huge Cadil­lac retailer, and today’s event spon­sor at around 10:40.  Our club get together was a social event pri­mar­ily, just a sea­son end get together, there was no judg­ing or com­pe­ti­tion, just a fun time to get together and talk Caddy’s.  Cadil­lac Vil­lage sup­plied all the food and drink along with a live band who played all day for our enjoy­ment, they even gifted every dri­ver who attended with a Cadil­lac Vil­lage logo camp chair, what a great bunch!  In atten­dance were some absolutely spec­tac­u­lar exam­ples of vin­tage Cadil­lac and laSalles, what a treat to see all of these fine auto­mo­biles in one place.  I’ve included just a cou­ple pho­tos here, but will get a full album up soon on the photo page.

We left for our return trip about 3:00PM and were safely back home around 4:30.  This 200+ mile round trip is prob­a­bly the longest trip the “Gray Lady” has trav­eled in the last 40 years, she did it with grace, style, and absolutely no issues.  A very nice day!

Tomor­row poses a dilema for us in that the Man­ches­ter Show (a 2000 car event), the Sims­bury Show (an antique car & plane show) and the Chicopee Rotory Shows are all sched­uled on the same date due to rain issues through­out the Sum­mer.  We really want to attend them all, but after the hec­tic pace of the last 2 weeks we are going to opt to just stay local.  so the Chicopee Rotory Club Show is it.

See you there.….…

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Mary Lee and I returned from our epic adven­ture on the high seas on Fri­day.  We sailed on the NCL Dawn out of Boston to the beau­ti­ful island of Bermuda.  I won’t bore you with the details here, but we were upgraded to a suite prior to sail­ing and if you are a cruise fan and inter­ested, you can find the full review and pho­tos that I posted on the Cruise Critic forum here;

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1479913

Now that we are back home, it has been a whirl­wind try­ing to do laun­dry, dig­ging through the paper­work piled high on my desk, and we still found the time to attend the Melha Shriners Vin­tage Auto Show today.  This show was another rain date resched­ule from ear­lier in the sea­son and we are glad they finally got a good day to put the show on.  The Shriners do so much good work for chil­dren with their vast net­work of hos­pi­tals.  We here in West­ern Mass­a­chu­setts are for­tu­nate to have one of these facil­i­ties right here in Springfield.

The show had a great turnout, and I apol­o­gize for for­get­ting my cam­era, so no pho­tos of the event today.  Suf­fice it to say there were many great exam­ples of clas­sic auto­mo­biles on dis­play to the delight of the crowds.  Late in the after­noon, at the awards cer­e­mony, we were a lit­tle dis­ap­pointed to not be included in the “Top 15″, and I had just turned to my wife and said, that even though we got skunked, it was still a great day.  The day bright­ened dra­mat­i­cally, when the very next announce­ment was that we were the “President’s Choice” award win­ner!  What a great fin­ish to a great week!  We will cer­tainly cher­ish this one, and look for­ward to sup­port­ing the Shriners again next year.

Going to be very busy this com­ing week and we have a full sched­ule for next week­end with a New Eng­land Region Cadillac/LaSalle Club event in Boston on Sat­ur­day and the 10th Annual Chicopee Rotory Club Clas­sic Car Show on Sunday

See you there.….…..

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