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Alex Burr - hester_nec

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  1. Definitely prices will be back down to the $3 to $3.25 range by election time - Republicans will crow how they got prices down. And us dumb Americans will say "Ain't that great - vote them back into office and prices will go lower!!!" Right. I'm spending my kids inheritance on gas and groceries these days. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  2. Dave, I emailed Denny and asked him that very question. As a matter of fact I asked him if HE was assigned that job. As I recall he said there was no one assigned to follow the animals with a bucket and shovel. LOL Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  3. I was out on my errands this morning (Friday is errand day - the rest of the week the car "rests"). As I told the cashier at the grocery store "I'm spending the kids inheritance on gas and groceries!!!" Ain't it the truth. I really do want to tour the Vicksburg Battlefield. Have been to Shilo, but it was in January, so just a tad cool to get out and wander among the monuments. Having been over the old U S 80 bridge many years ago, I am, in a sense glad that is one they bypassed. It was extremely narrow and a danger, especially from trucks or other large vehicles going the other way. White knuckle time, like the Cairo bridges. which are still in use today, and still just as narrow. Safe Travels. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  4. Hey RoadDog, I surely do agree with you on the "50 TIMES MORE TRAFFIC - and that was back in 2001, when I was headed west for Seattle. I followed 30 thru Chicago Heights over to Joliet in order to avoid I-80 thru Chi town. Unfortunately, about 500,000, give or take a couple, drivers had the same idea at the time. Well, it seemed like it. I agree with the "close to home" road trips. I have several already in the works, like the U S 61 from Memphis up to Blytheville (down here they pronounce it "Blyville) (about 75 miles) following the 1926 Automobile Blue Book routing (as much as possible), or a rerun from Little Rock to Memphis (about 138 miles), that I made on U S 70 a few years back, following a 1941 AAA Wester edition tour book. There are some others in the area that we can keep to 100 miles or so. In June I'll be following U S 64 over to Crump, TN (about 110 miles) for a Hudson car meet. Of course, all these milages are 1 way - I do have to get home. But, it shows if you look around you can find some short trips with interesting things to find and explore. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  5. Dave, Brochures arrived yesterday - now I hate you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You got me all fired up to make at least a "local" road trip down to Vicksburg and gas is $3.75 a gallon!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL ROF LLAM Actually, thanks. Those are nice, very informative. If, and when I get to, at least, Vicksburg, I'll know exactly where to go and what to look for. Safe travels. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  6. From the MemphisMainiac, welcome aboard Steve. As noted I live in the Memphis area - and I do short road trips around the Memphis area. With gas prices going up, road trips are getting shorter. Such is life. Anyway, looking fwd to seeing some of your wanderings here on the forum. Y'all take care, and safe travels. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  7. GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  8. You know how the streets in Eureka Springs were laid out??? They got the horse drunk first!!!!! The name is equally interesting - it started out simply as Eureka - came from people passing thru - when they got out of town they yelled - you ready for this - Eureka, we survived the streets!!!! The springs was added later. LOL Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  9. Bird reminds me of a girl I met once - I don't remember much about that whole weekend either, (one of many lost weekends way, way back) come to think of it!!! Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  10. Oh, yeah - I've been over to that web site. I entertained the idea of making a road trip to that area someday - now I wonder if I AM that crazy!!!! LOL Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  11. Best viewed BEFORE you have lunch!!!! LOL To bad they allow trucks on that road. Getting stuck behind an 18 wheeler on that road would indeed be a bummer. Hudsonly, Alex B
  12. You got's to know, Old Buddy - that Nebraska patrolman was out there just waiting bust the "Bandit"!!!! He got you instead. LOL ROFL Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  13. “I’m in for my rightful share of the Hypotenuse Goodies” I'm glad you (1) had a safe trip and (2) I'll bet you're glad it's over - but think of the memory's. You have joined the "trail blazers" - the ones that pioneered cross-country auto traveling from 1903 on, Dr. Horatio Jackson, Mrs. Alice Ramsey and even Emily Post. Heady company, isn't it. Or you can go back to the walking or wagon days - and you've joined the likes of Daniel Boone, Kit Carson and the mountain men who opened up all sorts of territories for us to explore. And, oh yes, we shouldn't forget the King Traveler of the "blue" highways - William Least-Heat Moon. Maybe YOU should write a book LOL. But you certainly had it easier than those folks. You learned something about this country of ours - and that's something most people don't have a clue about. Thanks for the sharing with your posts. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  14. Ok, now whose going to do the "other" Hypotenuse - San Diego to Houlton, Maine???? Curiously, the "as-the-crow-flies" distances, drawing straight lines, is, from Miami to Seattle, 2,740 miles; from San Diego to Houlton, 2,750!!!!! The lines cross somewhere in western Kansas. If I had the money I wouldn't mind doing it. But gas prices have got to drop by at least a dollar a gallon. Glad you had a good, safe and sane trip Dave. Have enjoyed following you across country. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  15. I'm not sure which photo I like the best - the truck, the store or the dog. Ok, ok, I'm an old car nut - but the dog and the general store tie for 2nd. LOL What would be really neat is to have made your drive in the '29 Dodge!!!! Safe traveling and enjoy. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  16. A fall curise would be nice - I might be able to make that one. Of course, gas prices will probably be $6 (or higher) a gallon (unless the pending election brings them down), but who knows. Right now, I'm saving pennies (nickles, diimes and quarters) for a trip to my Hudson car club National meet in Massachusetts in July - and not sure if gas prices are going to let me do that. We shall see what we shall see - I would like to make one of these road rambles sometime. If only for having the pleasure of putting some faces to names I find here on the forum. Safe travels. Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  17. Oh yeah - I'd wager a months retirement pay that that is an original pump. Repro's don't rust like that. What you looking at is a "retirement" pump. Get your hands on it, put it on ebay and you can retire off what you could make - if you wanted to do it that way. It's hard to tell from your photos, but I think that's one of those that you pumped gas into the globe to a marked level - 1 gal, 2 gal, 3 gal, up to probably 5 gal I'd say with that pump - using a hand pump from, usually a 55 gallon drum of gas. Then you gravity fed to the car's gas tank, usually thru the same hose. Love your "post card" shots - there's a lot of empty country out there for sure. Safe traveling. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  18. Add my congratulations to the list. Great photographs. Only one thing I might suggest, if possible. I'm one of these who likes to look at a photograph, and find something that tells where, or what, it is. Like on the intro photo. Just a short "between such and such a place" or some such. Will certainly add that site to my bookmarks so I can check back now and again. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  19. And did the cost of your treat at the drugstore reflect the 1947 prices??? LOL That shot of the mountains is indeed spectacular - could make a small fortune making that into a post card. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  20. Ok, it happens when you change computers. Next observation - what about it happens on the same computer, as I said earlier, for a couple of weeks. Then all of a sudden, one day, it remembers the log-in, as it did before. Me thinks one of them gremlins be at work. In any event it's a minor inconvience - except if you're like me and have trouble remembering where you live if your gone more than 2 days. Trying to remember login names and passwords can be trying at times. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  21. It is said, that one can stand on the old trail, on a dark and quiet night, and hear the crack of the wagoneers whips and the soft lowing of cattle and oxen, as ghostly wagons move west. But maybe that's just tourist hype - or not. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  22. Jim, Some people are unforgetable - some are just forgetable. I had that problem for about a week about 2 weeks back. Then one day it just started saving my login and so far has been ok. But, then again, we all know computers are weird. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  23. Hmmm - stopped for speeding in the middle of Nebraska - must have been a really slow day at the office for that nice policeman!!! Tho I strongly suspect your Florida tags had something to do with it - that mind set still exists in this country. The theory being that if you get issued a ticket you ain't gonna drive 2000 miles to show up in court to contest it. And most people will send in the fine - who knows which states have reciprocity. (Look that up in your Funk & Wagnals. In your case you lucked out. Little story about reciprocity - back in the early 70's I was headed west on I-80 for somewhere or other. Somewhere, just into Ohio, there's a place in eastern Ohio where a couple interstates come together and I found myself caught between two 18 wheelers with another coming up behind - so I put the pedal to the metal as they say. As I cleared the trucks sure enough Mr. John Law was sitting beside the road bored to death. He pulled me over, I knew I was going to get a speeding ticket. But, no, I didn't. He got so interested in the fact that my Maine license was some 10 years out of date, he forgot all about the speeding ticket!!! And, despite the note on the back of my license which said the nice State of Maine, in recognition of my being in the military I did not need to renew my license until 30 days after discharge or separation, the cop gave me a ticket for an expired license. Later I got a letter from Maine stating that if I was still in the service forget about the ticket. Safe travels and slow down a bit. hehehehehe Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  24. Small town America - despite the media's insistence it is dead and gone, it appears you have found that it is alive and well. Just sleeping in the sun waiting for better days to come. As for your adventure with a "local" you have evidently discovered another facet of todays small town America - that there are still places where people haven't gone more than 20 miles from home in their entire life time. We are so used to the idea of vacations that take us from Maine to Florida, from CA to WY, and everywhere in between, that we forget there are still people who live their lives as people did in the 1940's, 1950's and even into the 1960's. At home. Safe, and interesting traveling. Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
  25. They actually got roads iin nortwestern Arkansas?????????? Hudsonly, Alex Burr Memphis, TN
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