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06/04/2005 Entry: "First day and The Drive Down. (tm)"
Sup folks, I'm going to organize my post in days, so here you go!: Day 0 - Ames to Le Mars We packed up the TRS bus and headed out of town about 9 am. We needed to get to Akron (20 miles past Le Mars) to do a show for a library by 3am. We got there with an hour to spare, which was just enough time to practice and figure out what to do. The show went really well. The heat that day was easilly 100+ degress with a heat index of "shut the hell up." Amazingly, the bus made it the entire way past Le Mars and back without incident. However, it was a real hot ride with AC and about 10-20 minute after parking there was a loud *BANG* and steam flying out from under the bus because we blew a radiator hose coupling. A couple hours and few dollars later the problem was fixed (better radiator cap the vents pressure) and it was ready to go again. We didn't do a show in the town that night because we were all exhausted and thought the town would be dead. It wasn't. It also had a very disjointed fireworks display. Riding with the team this year is Johnny, Kay-Marie, and Qehndrah as support, and Myself, Mark, Mike, Garrett, Cade, Karl, Josh (from original roadshowusa), Amy, Andrew, Will, and Kai. Kai is doing it on unicycle with Ryan, who seems to not be camping with us. Day 1 - Le Mars to Sheldon This day was HOTT and with kinda wierd wind. Started as a tail but did not stay that way. Mark and I road with Cade, Garret, Mike, and Karl out of town but soon got seperated. We later met back up with Karl and Garret for pancakes in the half way town. We ran into Chris Kolhaas (of original roadshowusa fame) vending Gelatos, a greek(?) ice cream thingy. Tomorrow we will juggle with him. Tonight we are camping at the house of Paul Jenning's brother (Bruce? Ryan?). Paul is also of original roadshowusa fame. I think Jesse and Dan of gravity works may be visiting us tonight as well. If so, it will be a huge roadshowusa reunion.
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Posted by d @ 07/31/2005 11:34 AM CST
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