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This was tour day. The bus arrived on schedule, and we were all aboard and
rolling at 8:30.
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And we avoided being held up for the first half hour but our luck came to
and end as we pulled up to the big red gas pump at King City. Said their
names were Frank and Jesse James, and I don't know why you'd lie about a
thing like that. Having been here just two days ago, I didn't take many
pictures, but did take a few as I wondered just who David and Morgan were
and whether they had been and gone or were yet to come.
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The tourists are here! This is Mark Jensen's place which I learned would
be part of the bus tour when I stopped by on Thursday. Even though this
was another repeat, I still found "new" things to photograph.
I'd photographed the eagle on Thursday but only got silhouettes because of
the high sun. Today was better. The bugmobile was in some of the pictures
I took Thursday but none were portraits and I didn't use them anyway. The
"functioning" (it has light bulbs for spark plugs) V6 was tucked
away inside on Thursday.
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The
Toot-Toot is a near perfect lunch stop for a group.
Great food, atmosphere, and slogan.
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Stan Hendricks put together a great tour and handled the bulk of the
narration. He did get some help from John Ross and I had a chance to snap
a picture of both when Stan stood up to introduce John.
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The main target of this stop was the Amish Country Store. I wasn't much interested in the
crafts and food stuffs available, and only slightly more interested in
the large corporate Maid-Rite restaurant. About the only thing that pulled
my attention much at all were some hints at Maid-Rite history hanging on
the wall. I snapped pictures of a couple of pictures:
#1, #2.
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Taking pictures from a bus, through fellow passengers and dirty windows,
usually isn't very fruitful so I don't often bother. Today I did grab
shots of a couple of old culverts and an abandoned bridge that I hadn't
even noticed on Thursday and which were fairly far away.
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The tour's last stop was at the Cameron Depot Museum. This is in Stan's home territory
and he really enjoyed showing it off. There are some nice Jefferson
Highway exhibits along with a camera that's too big for Captain Kangaroo's
pockets and doesn't even support texting, and
some articles about Abraham Lincoln and John
Wilkes Booth both passing through this depot while traveling on the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.
Outside there is a large water bowl that once sat in the center of town at the intersection of the Jefferson Highway and the Pikes Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway. It was here that we somehow got everyone to stand still long enough for a picture. |
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The conference ending banquet took place at the
Pony Express Museum.
The big motel sign is on the grounds of the museum and we were told that
it was on a timer but the schedule was unknown. A few of us kept popping
out to see if it was lit but it was still dark when we left. The huge
mural is in the museum parking lot. We got a guided tour of the museum but
I think the most impressive thing about it is that fact that it is in the
actual Pony Express stables. The staged scene of the first Pony Express
ride is at the very location where it actually occurred.
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Dick Van Laar initially handled the pre-banquet entertainment solo, but,
in time, he was joined by one famous vocalist after another.
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Though certainly deserving, Lyell Henry did not receive the evening's
first award. He accepted the association's big expression of gratitude on
behalf of Paul Walker who handles the newsletter design and layout. The
next awards went to David Stearns for his mapping work and other
contributions and to Theresa Russell for her work on the association's
website. I'm not entirely sure what Glenn had in mind as he presented an
award to Loring Miller, but I do know that no one was hurt. Mike Curtis
received an award for his efforts in producing a map of the entire
Jefferson Highway and John Ross was awarded for his work in preparing this
year's conference.
Just ahead of Mike receiving his award for creating the map, I got one for using it. I protested that I hadn't yet made it even half way on my end-to-end drive, but Glenn expressed confidence and pointed out that the ambassador award simply obligated me to complete the drive. |
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