See calendar for the details and beyond July
February – 12 – Blossom Trail Run / 25 – Breakfast at Red Caboose Café
March- 24 – Loco Yoko Run
April – 14 – Breakfast at the Woodlake Airport 22 – Red Bud/Cat Haven Run
May – 19 – Mariposa/Triangle Run
June – 24 – Yosemite Sugar Pine RR Tour
July – 21 – Breakfast in Reedley – Beat the Heat Run
I was looking forward to this run for three reasons. 1) It was going to be a great run up the San Joaquin Valley from Fresno to Modesto utilizing only back roads, 2) This will be the last run of the year, and 3) This was going to be the last run before I start taking apart my 1964 Triumph TR-4 getting it ready for a brand new paint job. I’m so excited!!
On the run we had good weather and everyone had a great time. Now, for the story about my car. Opps!! I think you can see which subject has most of my attention. OK I will expand on the car run and leave my Triumph’s paint job story for another time. Duarte Nursery is a family owned and operated nursery located near Modesto. It is the largest permanent crops nursery in the United States and most of the time is not open to the public. However, Duarte Nursery does open their doors the weekend before Thanksgiving to view and purchase their thousands upon thousands of poinsettias. What a great way to get in the mood for the holiday season. (Click photo for more pics) Read the rest of this entry
A couple months back we set up a run for our south valley members. We met up at a Starbucks in Visalia on a pleasant Saturday morning. As usual I was the first one there (had to make sure I got my triple venti mocha, and my wife got her venti nonfat iced chai with 8 pumps). As we sat there enjoying the coolness of the morning, we were pleased to see the British cars roll in. I believe we ended up with 3 MG’s, 3 Triumphs, a Healey, and a Jag. (Click photo for more pics)
We left Visalia and headed through some back streets and roads to the town of Exeter. Exeter is a small town known for its many murals. After a slow drive through town we went up Rocky Hill Road. This road is famous to the locals for biking, running and walkers. So slowly we headed up, and at the top is a great view of the farmland that looks like a patchwork quilt. Then down and around the hill we went before heading up the 198 towards Three Rivers.
Once again we had a small group from our club participate in the Veteran’s Parade in Tulare. Only had 4 cars this year, but we made a show of it. Thanks to Monica in her beautiful TR7 Spider, Wes in his very nice MGA and Sam in his exceptional Morgan, and I took my MGB. I dressed up my car with flags and our club logo on the side of each door, and my picture made it into the local web site for the paper. I feel very proud to support our Veterans and it is good for our club as well as for our hobby to get our cars out there. I will be there again next year, it is always the weekend before Veterans Day, so keep it open and join in….Richard Thornberry (Click on photo for more pics)
