yamafitter
Reigning NERDS Granite Lane Gold Medalist
After my mandatory reporting in at the local Tim Hortons on Saturday morning to collect my orders (and donuts) we pointed the dog sled west to pick up the other portion of the invasion force. By some quirk of nature I did not run into the usual 3 hour traffic jam across Toronto so I was way ahead of schedule by the time I reached Wingham so I decided to pull in to gather further supplies for the invasion fleet....
As I walked in to this particular armoury there was something very particular about this place. The first thing I spotted was a large flat panel TV which in itself is quite out of place for a Timmy's but was even stranger was there was no hockey being displayed. This is just wrong.
Add to this the fact that in the same area where was a fireplace and comfy lounge chairs. I was starting to think I had stumbled into a Starbucks instead. I went back outside to check but did not see any GS BMW's. Going back inside and checking the menu list the coffee was way too cheap to be a Starbucks so I went ahead and ordered my Grilled Cheese Panini & coffee....
With the new supplies in hand if was off the attempt to find Casa del Huron52. That clever Canuck had carefully camouflaged his location from the folks that provide the maps for the Toyota Nav System since Point Clark did not compute on the SUV's GPS. Neither the the town of Ripley which I have seen mentioned in the past.
Being a very clever Canuck myself I had a Plan B and determined that Tom was not quite clever enough to hide from Google Maps on my iPhone. With some triangulation between the iPhone and the SUV's Nav System I was able to pinpoint a location and soon found myself at Tom's doorstep....
Pam already had steak in the oven and we sat down for a great feed and planned out our clever invasion.
The next morning we had already had our landing craft carefully packed in the trailer and were thinking about leaving at daybreak ....
Unfortunately daybreak does not come to these parts till June so we set out for the border in the dark. Before making the front lines we needed another stop for more invasion supplies. The generals were holding a planning session at the corner table....
In honour of St Patty one of the planners was properly decked out.
A quick stop at the Duty Free to spare us any of that watered down Yankee swill and we crossed over the border. All documentation was in proper order so we cleared Homeland Security and were allowed to run amok in the Great US of A.
First stop was a stop at the first Cracker Barrel restaurant we came to to preform some intel....
Sorry but if Grits is the Yanks answer to Poutine then this is an epic fail!!! The rest of the grub was quite good....
Pam seemed to be enjoying herself....
We made excellent progress towards our objective but made a tactical error just before St Louis when we filled Tom's diesel truck with biodiesel. The truck is taking exception to this and while we re still making progress it is at a slightly diminished pace. Once we burn this crap off and get some proper go juice in the tank we hope to be back at full strength.....
We considered the most direct route via Denver and over the Loveland Pass but a check of the Loveland Pass road conditions on the internet put us back on my original plan to swing south through the Texas Panhandle and stay out of the mountain passes.
-to be continued-
As I walked in to this particular armoury there was something very particular about this place. The first thing I spotted was a large flat panel TV which in itself is quite out of place for a Timmy's but was even stranger was there was no hockey being displayed. This is just wrong.
Add to this the fact that in the same area where was a fireplace and comfy lounge chairs. I was starting to think I had stumbled into a Starbucks instead. I went back outside to check but did not see any GS BMW's. Going back inside and checking the menu list the coffee was way too cheap to be a Starbucks so I went ahead and ordered my Grilled Cheese Panini & coffee....
With the new supplies in hand if was off the attempt to find Casa del Huron52. That clever Canuck had carefully camouflaged his location from the folks that provide the maps for the Toyota Nav System since Point Clark did not compute on the SUV's GPS. Neither the the town of Ripley which I have seen mentioned in the past.
Being a very clever Canuck myself I had a Plan B and determined that Tom was not quite clever enough to hide from Google Maps on my iPhone. With some triangulation between the iPhone and the SUV's Nav System I was able to pinpoint a location and soon found myself at Tom's doorstep....
Pam already had steak in the oven and we sat down for a great feed and planned out our clever invasion.
The next morning we had already had our landing craft carefully packed in the trailer and were thinking about leaving at daybreak ....
Unfortunately daybreak does not come to these parts till June so we set out for the border in the dark. Before making the front lines we needed another stop for more invasion supplies. The generals were holding a planning session at the corner table....
In honour of St Patty one of the planners was properly decked out.
A quick stop at the Duty Free to spare us any of that watered down Yankee swill and we crossed over the border. All documentation was in proper order so we cleared Homeland Security and were allowed to run amok in the Great US of A.
First stop was a stop at the first Cracker Barrel restaurant we came to to preform some intel....
Sorry but if Grits is the Yanks answer to Poutine then this is an epic fail!!! The rest of the grub was quite good....
Pam seemed to be enjoying herself....
We made excellent progress towards our objective but made a tactical error just before St Louis when we filled Tom's diesel truck with biodiesel. The truck is taking exception to this and while we re still making progress it is at a slightly diminished pace. Once we burn this crap off and get some proper go juice in the tank we hope to be back at full strength.....
We considered the most direct route via Denver and over the Loveland Pass but a check of the Loveland Pass road conditions on the internet put us back on my original plan to swing south through the Texas Panhandle and stay out of the mountain passes.
-to be continued-
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