Day 2 Post from Tyler
This morning we woke up and went outside to be greeted by about 70 Elviseses or Elvi or whatever the plural of Elvis is. There were fat Elvises in jumpsuits, skinny jailhouse Elvi, Hawaiian Elvises, Army Elvi, a little doggy Elvis, and every Elvis you could ever imagine and some you probably wouldn't want to.
We got off to a fairly good start. Dave was feeling a little rough so I took the wheel for the Day. We headed to the starting line. We pulled out from the hotel in H'burg and were handed our challenge for the day. Since we are were dressed as the king today's challenge was to have a picture made with at least three "innocent" bystanders. These innocence of these folks was defined as not having any association with the rally. Some of the other stipulations were that your entire team had to be in the picture. This means not only did you have to find willing photographees you had to find a willing photographer if you weren't smart enough to bring along a tripod. Bonus points were awarded if you were able to get at least 10 people in the picture in addition to the team members. Some teams hung around H'burg and James Madison University. We decided to go ahead and hit the road.
Once we hit the road we did a little a little thinking of our strategy. Our goal was to get as many pictures with 10+ people in them as possible. We figured to do this our best bet was to find a large group of folks willing to have their picture taken with two Elvi. We also remembered that the headquarters for Advance Auto Parts is in Roanoke. A quick google search gave us an address and with the GPS we found that it was only about a 5 minute journey off of I-81. Now when we were preparing the car almost all the new parts and fluids we replaced on the car came from Advance. we thought it would be cool to see if they would have ten of their employees willing to take a picture. They were actually very excited to see us. Not only did they bring us 10 employees for the picture, they hooked us up with some sweet new stickers for the car (which will go on in the morning) and some T-Shirts. So a big thanks to Drew, Carrie, Evan, Kara and all the employees at Advance that helped us get an excellent picture for the challenge.
After we left Advance we headed over to a nearby deli to grab some lunch. The deli was actually a sit down restaurant that was real busy. It took a lot longer than expected to get our food, but the waitresses did stop for a moment to pose for a picture. After lunch it was back on the road.
We lost a lot of time at lunch so we decided to take the most direct route to Asheville. We took I-81 and caught I-26 over to Asheville. One the way we met up with a few other teams and took some more of our challenge pics. Once we got past Erwin (Home of Hanging Mary) we went up some big mountains leading into NC. I had to downshift quite a bit to be able to keep up with the Sisters of FoMoCo. Sometimes, I was even going down to 3rd. The mighty Festy chugged on up the mountains with it's 1.3 liters doing all they could.
We made it into Asheville and on to Jessica's (Dave's girlfriend in case you forgot) parent's house in Fletcher. We are crashing here this evening so another big thanks goes out to them as well. We spent the evening downtown where the fine folks of Asheville were very willing to help out with the challenge. We had a barley soda over at Jack of the Wood. We finished all of our pictures and were able to get four with 10+ people in them. Jessica's parents met up with us at the hotel to look at some of the other cars on the rally. We then headed over to Cheeseburger in Paradise for a nice dinner. It is late and Dave has retired for the evening. So we will unfortunately have to skip the pics for now. We will get them up sometime tomorrow. They'll be worth the wait, I promise.
We got off to a fairly good start. Dave was feeling a little rough so I took the wheel for the Day. We headed to the starting line. We pulled out from the hotel in H'burg and were handed our challenge for the day. Since we are were dressed as the king today's challenge was to have a picture made with at least three "innocent" bystanders. These innocence of these folks was defined as not having any association with the rally. Some of the other stipulations were that your entire team had to be in the picture. This means not only did you have to find willing photographees you had to find a willing photographer if you weren't smart enough to bring along a tripod. Bonus points were awarded if you were able to get at least 10 people in the picture in addition to the team members. Some teams hung around H'burg and James Madison University. We decided to go ahead and hit the road.
Once we hit the road we did a little a little thinking of our strategy. Our goal was to get as many pictures with 10+ people in them as possible. We figured to do this our best bet was to find a large group of folks willing to have their picture taken with two Elvi. We also remembered that the headquarters for Advance Auto Parts is in Roanoke. A quick google search gave us an address and with the GPS we found that it was only about a 5 minute journey off of I-81. Now when we were preparing the car almost all the new parts and fluids we replaced on the car came from Advance. we thought it would be cool to see if they would have ten of their employees willing to take a picture. They were actually very excited to see us. Not only did they bring us 10 employees for the picture, they hooked us up with some sweet new stickers for the car (which will go on in the morning) and some T-Shirts. So a big thanks to Drew, Carrie, Evan, Kara and all the employees at Advance that helped us get an excellent picture for the challenge.
After we left Advance we headed over to a nearby deli to grab some lunch. The deli was actually a sit down restaurant that was real busy. It took a lot longer than expected to get our food, but the waitresses did stop for a moment to pose for a picture. After lunch it was back on the road.
We lost a lot of time at lunch so we decided to take the most direct route to Asheville. We took I-81 and caught I-26 over to Asheville. One the way we met up with a few other teams and took some more of our challenge pics. Once we got past Erwin (Home of Hanging Mary) we went up some big mountains leading into NC. I had to downshift quite a bit to be able to keep up with the Sisters of FoMoCo. Sometimes, I was even going down to 3rd. The mighty Festy chugged on up the mountains with it's 1.3 liters doing all they could.
We made it into Asheville and on to Jessica's (Dave's girlfriend in case you forgot) parent's house in Fletcher. We are crashing here this evening so another big thanks goes out to them as well. We spent the evening downtown where the fine folks of Asheville were very willing to help out with the challenge. We had a barley soda over at Jack of the Wood. We finished all of our pictures and were able to get four with 10+ people in them. Jessica's parents met up with us at the hotel to look at some of the other cars on the rally. We then headed over to Cheeseburger in Paradise for a nice dinner. It is late and Dave has retired for the evening. So we will unfortunately have to skip the pics for now. We will get them up sometime tomorrow. They'll be worth the wait, I promise.
posted by LOHAN at 11:15 PM
1 Comments:
ahhggg we want pics.
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