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Saturday, August 28, 2004.
On the road. Our
team assembles at breakfast…Rhett Hubertus, Debbie Stuart, and
Terry Sayther head north and east. Interstate travel is so easy, and
so uneventful. Especially if you are on the correct interstate, which
we found eventually. The roads of East Texas into 
Arkansas
are so very green for August, a nice surprise. The high point of our
day was our stop in West, Texas for kolaches. Debbie caught a frog AND
a toad at the Best Western in Carlisle, AR…the highlight of her
day. Rhett took ALOT of pictures, zooming ahead of us constantly like
a gnat, practicing his art. An easy first day; stopping just short of
Memphis.
Sunday, August 29, 2004
On the road again. A bit of playing this morning---a short visit to Graceland, then a stop at Mud Island to see the incredible walking map of the lower Mississippi River. One step equals one mile and every few steps there are fascinating historical annotations. Great fun. Next we went to have lunch with Leo Goff, one of the legends in the BMW and automotive world. You name it and this man has done it---from blues recording to race engine building, motorcycles to trucks, Bonneville to Daytona, and everywhere in between. Leo is the wizard. He is currently the machine shop GURU of Memphis Motorworks, specializing in BMW and other German engine machining. You will not find a friendlier, down to earth guy.
On
our way out of Memphis, we were accosted by a guy in a 318ti asking
us if we were lost: Mike Wyndham local BMW CCA member, ex-Tejas Chapter
Rally Meister, and old friend. What a small world!
And then we were back on the big highway headed east----Tennessee is a very long state and we were not able to escape it this day. All day long we watched incredible tractor trailer rigs full of NASCAR racers passing us in the other direction as they headed west from last night’s race at Bristol, Tennessee. We drove past Loretta Lynns Country Kitchen in the middle of the state and Dollyland in the east, but that was as far as we could get. Debbie’s favorite town today: Bucksnort, Tennessee.