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BMW
Vintage Marathon Trip Log from
Terry Sayther
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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.
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