[AT] Visiting ATIS members during 9/18 trip

Larry D. Goss rlgoss at evansville.net
Fri Sep 30 10:56:36 PDT 2005


Thanks, Herb.  I "need" to know more locations for ice cream.  :-)

I've been through West Liberty before because I've been known to come by
the "northwest passage" around Columbus when I'm towing.  But I've never
stopped for ice cream before.  It sounds like a winner.

Larry

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Barbara and I certainly enjoyed the hospitality of the Willers and the
Dotsons during our 9/27-28 trip to Ohio to pick up a D14 bought from an
AC enthusiast in New York.  He delivered it to the Willers the previous
week when he attended an AC sale in Indiana.  George had rearranged his
shed (Allis, Case, Ford, IHC H and M, plus many Cubs) to make room for
one more. 
Yes, George, our loading was well done.   I never made any adjustments;
that is saying quite a bit when one travels 690 miles and includes
Kentucky interstates (they are rough).  
After enjoying Marilyns good cooking and a nice overnight stay, we hit
the road for the Dotsons.  We had toured Georges shops (full line for
wookwork and full line for metal work and his shed full of tractors)
last year when we stopped in for Sunday brunch on our return from
Canandaigua, NY show.   Our visit at Gene Dotsons included visiting with
Gene, brother Gary and his wife Regina and a tour of Genes farm, shed
full of Case tractors plus good looking Maule airplane, airstrip, White
combine and many implements.  Then on to brother Larry and wife Barbara
Dotsons where we toured their  shed full of IHC Cubs, his exceptional
restored Cockshut, and several other tractors and implements.   Larry
has several projects in process including an Allis G restoration for
some guy way down in GA, and he still works full time.  
Thank You Barbara for the good written directions for getting back to
I-65 while also avoiding Dayton.  Those directions also took us through
West Liberty where we noticed a couple sitting out front of a store
eating icecream cones.  Wooohh!   $1.00 for a huge scoop of delicious
icecream.   (Note to Larry Goss, store was on southwest corner of
intersection).    
We had gone about five miles when Gene phoned and said Barbara had
noticed the trailer brake lights were not working when we left their
place.  Sure enough; I wiggled the plug and they worked ok the rest of
the trip.   Thank You again Barbara. 
The rest of the trip home went well.   However, I did drive on the left
side of the road through much of KY, because of the right side being so
rough.   I do not like doing that but this was middle of the night and
our trailer has five lights across the rear.
Time did not permit a visit to Gary and Regina's to tour their
collection of Leaders and an exceptional restored Cockshut; maybe next
year.
Herb
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