Thread: 4th Annual Fall 2010 - Tail of the Dragon GTG - Oct. 1, 2, 3
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Default Re: 4th Annual Fall 2010 - Tail of the Dragon GTG - Oct. 1, 2, 3
Originally Posted by Rapp's
We're still driving home clear weather and roads all good. We've attended the TOD in the past all I can say is they get better and better; we had a great time the Sunday run into the rain cloud was our highlight and the side show seeing the lady slide down the falls was priceless. Staying over to Monday is a must. Vince, Jason, Kyle a pleasure to meet each of you, Scott and Nick despite what I wrote on the bathroom walls we enjoyed hanging with you. Max dear…thank you. Mostly on a personal note, I'm thankful we are all safe and will be together again for more destroying of the ozon layer in the years to come. Ann. Oh and Paul, Kim, Judy and I discussed it and it's true Classic yellow is the best color.
Anne, I look forward to next season when we can all get together again.

I arrived on Thursday exhausted from the long day. Friday Evan took a ride with me through the dragon and back. (which pictures are already up from Friday) Washed the cars and then I hopped in Evan's passenger seat to head out 28 only to run into Bob and his screaming SRT-6... Seriously when he steps on the gas it screams lol. The rest of that night is just a blur of meeting people and gazing at the 5.5 liter V8 Rudy shoved into the yellow crossfire.
Saturday was parking day. It really reminded me of being back in High School helping park cars to raise money for one organization or another. Anyway back on topic, somehow Kim and I managed to park all 75 Crossfires without pulling our hair out. Basically another meet and greet until we split and went our separate ways for the day. I went with Dan on the Franklin run. It was much better this past spring when it was just Dan, James, Gary and myself tearing it up. We also didn't have to deal with the "Trike" Phenomenon. I'll never understand why someone would want one of those, much less spend what they spend on them. After the Franklin run we hit the Dragon only to find Jason and Kyle on the North side of the hill without brakes. So what did we do??? We followed them back through the dragon. Of course I got bored 1 mile in, so I radioed back to rvd4now to pull off at the first look out and we'll get some space so we can rip through it at a proper pace. That night rvd4now popped his Dragon cherry and slayed the beast. and even though Jason and Kyle told us to continue on after passing I still felt bad for leaving them out in the woods. If I had only known that later that night we would find out that they were just fine since the magical Apple iPad showed Kyle was actually an angry Gorilla, and apparently I work for the Russian QVC network. (Funny story for another time)

Sunday was the day I received my annual Dragon nickname. Spring it was Ruth, this fall it's Bob for the way I bobbed on the river every time I was bounced out of the raft. Troy, Troy's gf, Kim, Dan, Jane, and I are bonded for life now after risking life and limb on those raging ice cold rapids. The water was so cold we actually drifted by an iceberg and a few penguins. Then afterwards a 1.5 hour trip through the dragon with Troy for fuel and fun ended up taking us 3. But we did manage to conquer a dark and wet dragon.

It's over now, I took one last flying lap through the dragon waiting a full 6 minutes and 15 seconds before the rest of the group caught up. Then another 20 minutes for Ms. Gump to catch up. This is a Dragon I will not forget. Thank you everyone who took part in it.

I call this pick, waiting for Ms. Gump
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