Where's: Jimmy and Willem

[2000_Black_RT10]

I enjoyed reading about your journey Willem, too bad you weren't close, I owe you some stuff that can't be emailed. Envy, envy, envy on your chance to drive the N'Ring ACR.

Great that Jimmy took care of you, class act, very cool.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[InjectTheVenom]

Well you got the contacts, get a hold of someone that can get you a ride of your own in the N'Ring ACR
Do you still have my address? If not hit me with a PM, I imagine that you are very busy at the moment so I'm hoping that Santa Clause will remember to stop by your place and pick the stuff up.

Yea Jimmy is a cool guy.. a troublemaker and a scarecrow sometimes but he's 'aight

 

[ViperTony]

I actually have a sound answer to this one, on one of our last stops for gas we found your Nirvana

...Classic! When do you head back home?

 

[InjectTheVenom]

This saturday by 10PM my plane leaves the gate at JFK... not that I want to go back but work and other stuff are calling

 

[XXX BLK]

Willem, have a safe trip back and let us know you made it home

 

[Pythonpete]

Safe flight Willem

 

[PDCjonny]

Talk about your memorable vacation...

 

[bluequadcab]

Willem and I took the train to NYC today and visited the Intrepid, Statue Of Liberty, and Ellis Island. It was nice to see the Statue Of Liberty again. It reminds me of what it means to live in the USA and all that people sacrificed and still do to come to this country to live. Even Willem has the urge to move here after his first visit. I'm kind of sad that I don't think this country is as good as it once was, much has happened in the past decade, but still think it's one of the best places on earth. The Intrepid and Concord were cool, hadn't visited that before. I think alll Americans should visit things like the Statue Of Liberty, Ellis Island, many of our war and conflict monuments, Ground Zero, and things that remind us of the sacrifices people of all walks of life made to make this country the land of freedom and opportunity, and reflect on how we can make this country greater than it's ever been if we too sacrifice, take pride in our country, and remember it's and honor and gift to live here, not a given right.

 

[vooodoo]

It was so nice to meet you both at VOI!!

Willem - Have a safe trip home! See you at VOI12!!



Ralph & Doris

 

[InjectTheVenom]

It was so nice to meet you both at VOI!!

Willem - Have a safe trip home! See you at VOI12!!



Ralph & Doris

thank you both!! It was a pleasure and an honor to be sitting at your table! You betcha I will be there again for VOI 12, will send a few links to some of my scale model through PM when the jetlag has worn off.

Well.. just finished packing my bags.... hate going back home but have to.... had such a great time with all of you, I hope that my memory will not let me down in remembering all the fun that we made.

 

[BlknBlu]

Great story and glad you had a good time. This event will stay in our memories forever.

Bruce

 

[bluequadcab]

It was so nice to meet you both at VOI!!

Willem - Have a safe trip home! See you at VOI12!!



Ralph & Doris

Willem couldn't have said it any better, it was an honor and a pleasure to to be your guest at your table for the Dodge sponsored dinner! Thank you also for the center pieces and the wrist bands allowing us to be among the first in the Dodge Sneak Peek room! This is my second VOI, number 10 was the first, and each has been most memorable. Thank you for your kindness and generosity. See you at VOI 12 and hope to see some Gen 5 Vipers there also!

Jimmy

 

[InjectTheVenom]

I'm an idiot.. forgot to mention the additional things that Jimmy put

Well after landing on Schiphol airport yesterday afternoon and almost immediately getting into a totally uncalled for and provoked argument with a piece of **** from Morocco I again know why Wilders needs to become our prime minister and why I need to leave this moronic, anti-social country ASAP...

That said I felt like a dead man walking yesterday, my back is killing me from those airplane seats and although Jimmy was joking about it as we were nearing the airport I was DEFINITELY fighting my emotions to keep it all in ... seriously... people don't know me for being open about certain issues but I will deeply miss you guys for the good times that we had together Am afraid of turning into a grumpy guy again now that I am back...

 

[InjectTheVenom]

Will start uploading the remaining pics tomorrow and prepare an accompanying story as that progresses, luckily the jetlag was not too bad today.. you really could not get a senseful thing out of me yesterday as I slept most of the way back Called it a day at 6 or 7PM and hit my bed.. without any real sleep during the night

 

[bluequadcab]

Glad you're back from the dead, lol. Can't wait to see more pics of the trip!

 

[InjectTheVenom]

'K there we go, took this old single core PC a long time.. we are going back to where we left my pictorial timeline as we were coming up on the second overnight stop in Kearney, Nebraska

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Yup, almost there!

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There we is!

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Nighty night, don't let the wire bugs bite! (We actually saw a black cat get off the trailer as we were preparing to leave the next morning)

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Next morning at the first gas stop

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Sunrises simply do not get much better than this! Simply breathtaking!

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What the... first we drive through a couple of Russian towns (including a Saint Petersburg??) and now all of a sudden we are in Australia???

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Life Is A Highway

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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEH our first hook up with other Viper folk!!

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To be continued in next post...

 

[InjectTheVenom]

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25 pics are full again...

 

[InjectTheVenom]

Excusez moi for the long break but I gotta "stuff" myself (Jimmy will remember what I mean with the marked word ) after not really feeling like eating for a whole day sunday.

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Something wrong with my camera here, this is the Cheyenne junction where we were supposed to hook up with the Denver convoy of 9 were it not for a certain Yellow Canadian that decided to test the speed rating on his trailer tires

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Free cookies? WHAT??? PULL IT THE HECK OVER

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We made sure that some folks were not getting their Corvettes after these two pictures were taken

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A LOT of windmills going on!

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At this point we were starting to get into the hilly area before arriving in the valley where Salt Lake City is located

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This is where we were supposed to meet a small group of the Illinois chapter but as it turned out later they were already past this point. Must have been that Bavarian guy who is used to Autobahn blasting in Germany!

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25 marker....

 

[InjectTheVenom]

This is about as high as we got, if the GPS was not off this sign was missing a +100 feet inaccuracy.

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Ok so we thought it was closer, THIS is where the rest area was where our newfound friends and we stopped to see if the Illinois group was going to pass by.

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Lincoln statue

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Side by side, waiting for people that were already ahead several miles in a supposedly famous diner?

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Ivan ** again!

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Right now the last of the trip pictures is uploading and will take a while before they can be posted.. feel free to post any comments in this time period.

 

[ViperGTS]

Must have been that Bavarian guy who is used to Autobahn blasting in Germany!

nice pics - by the way -

 

[InjectTheVenom]

Danke schön 3 more pics to go and then we will get to the meet up with you guys

 

[InjectTheVenom]

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Yup, behind those mountains lies Salt Lake City!

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Oh crap... (as it turned out later NO snow luckily!)

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Huh... was Robert misleading us or something?

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We must be getting close because this sure looks like one of the first salt lakes!

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Before this guy we had a SSG coupe fly by us

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Hey there are those Illinois characters over there in the parking lot! Let's go meet 'em!

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Turn this page to see what happens next.

 

[InjectTheVenom]

Hi gang what's the rush?? We'se gots trailers behind us ya know!

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Tsssk, not even on the track and already decided to go offroading

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The diner not too far away from that... straight back to the 60's, you just don't see these all that often anymore!

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On the road again... what the heck, he must have stopped someplace also? Take 2

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WHAT?! So soon already??

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Second sign, must be it then!

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What do they say about 3 times again...

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Knew it was too good to be true... there is a TOWN called Little America!

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Ok now somebody is just playing tricks on us

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THERE WE GO ALMOST AT OUR DESTINATION!!!!!

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[InjectTheVenom]

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Map 'o the valley

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Don't know if I'm gonna make it to upload the last batch in time so this might be it for the night.

 

[InjectTheVenom]

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THE last gas stop, anticipation sure was building up at this point

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Crossing the state line... can't be too much further anymore now!

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Mile by mile...

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In the valley leading towards the promised (Viper) land

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The last few bends

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[bluequadcab]

Great job with the pictures, keep'em coming! And the commentary too!

 

[InjectTheVenom]

Thank you Jimmy Are you starting to miss that easy-to-scare, butt-of-all-your-jokes, skirt-chasing Dutch guy yet ? Angela still did not call (only Jimmy and I know who this is, LMAO)?

 

[InjectTheVenom]

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*que modified instrumental version of Guns 'n Roses - Paradise City*

"Take me down to that Salt Lake City where the Vipers are green and the girls are pretty... OH won't you please take me home!"

First sighting!!

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Now upon entering the parking lot we literally had a (trailer) fender bender at the gate.. suffice to say pictures were not taken of said mishap.. unloaded the Viper.. then quickly went to the entrance to register and find out where we needed to park. As well organised as VOI was, directions on how to navigate the garage were the only thing lacking IMO. But once we were there... the sight of 300 Vipers and Herb Helbig washing his Viper was priceless!

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Dinner

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The next day in good sunlight, heading to breakfast

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Breakfast for the 3 of us

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Need to take a break here because I have 4 memory cars worth of pictures that need to be put in chronological order.

 

[InjectTheVenom]

By the way if anyone wants higher res versions of particular pictures please let me know and I will send those to you, the pics you see here were resized with the Imageshack tool to keep everything visible.

 

[bluequadcab]

Thank you Jimmy Are you starting to miss that easy-to-scare, butt-of-all-your-jokes, skirt-chasing Dutch guy yet ? Angela still did not call (only Jimmy and I know who this is, LMAO)?

Yeah I have to find some other people to scare now. Some guys are working with me tomorrow, guess they are in for it. No calls from waitress's for me either, but I have talked and am meeting a certain someone on Sat. that you know about and I gave my number to when we got back from VOI.