[AT] I'm back again

[Best, George]

Not sure when my first trip to Portland was.  I'll have to find my old pictures and see that the date stamp is on the files.  I'm guessing it was around 96 or 97.  I did make it back to Portland a couple times after that first trip when four of us from the west coast flew out and shared a rental car.

I actually prefer the trips where I drove to Portland and had a trailer.  Made for an interesting trip with all the stops we made both ways to visit collectors and add engines to the truck and trailer.  With the security these days we wouldn't be able to bring back the stuff we did in our carry on that we did on that first trip!  Richard probably had enough tools in his bag to disassemble the plane.

Was just thinking this past week that I may fly back to Portland for the 2010 show.  Would love to drive it again, but it uses up too many vacation days that way.  It is real limiting only having 5 weeks of vacation each year as I could easily use a couple more! ;-)

Glad to see there is a bit more activity on the tractor list.  The engine list has gotten pretty quiet.

George

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Richard Walker
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:48 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] I'm back again


>Was that 1995 when you west coast guys (you, Richard Walker, Don 
>Bowen and ??) were at Portland, IN August show?  TIME does fly.

Herb, sure glad you could make it out here to the Tulare show, and 
Don, Karl O. and I really enjoyed spending some time with you and your wife.

I THINK it was a year or two later than 1995, when the boxes got 
delivered to Spencer?  1996-7?  And the ??? of our quartet was Bill, 
George's welder and machinist friend from OR, who fabricates engines 
from scratch.



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