I fixed my wagon and rewarded myself with a ROAD TRIP!

Hi all, I finally fixed my wagon, details are in the Electrical section under Failure...ha! My buddies from work and I had been planning a fishing trip to Northeast Texas for a long time and I really wanted to take the wagon. Sometimes things just work out!

I won't bore you with the fishing pics, but it was a gorgeous day today and I ended up stopping a lot and getting some really good Roadmaster pics. We fished on Cedar Creek Lake and stayed in the very Texas-sounding town of Gun Barrel City. Fishing, steaks, BEER, good friends, was an AWESOME weekend.

ANYWAY to get back on topic the trip was about 500 miles round-trip. I left early this morning and decided to take back-roads home. Ended up seeing some great Texas Big Sky country! Went through Corsicana Texas, where I attended Navarro College about 20-years ago (yikes) and got some pics there too.

I love Texas. Saw everything from DEEP woods to wide-open spaces, flat grassland and hills, all in one afternoon. Set the cruise control at 80mph and got 22.9mpg! A/C Blastin, 100 degrees outside. I LOVE that car.

Anyway, great trip. Lots of pics....enjoy!

-Mike

Drove the Buick on the grass near the lake. Love these pics!













Then got this cool pic on a closed train track:



Downtown Corsicana Texas, my college hometown. I like the brick streets.



My College:



HOLY COW IT'S COMING RIGHT AT ME!



Another pic of the jet on the Navarro College Campus. NEAT!



Time to get on the road...south, just pick a 2-lane on the map and let her run!



100 degress! Texas in August. Thank goodness for A/C!



Set the cruise at 80 and let her run those smooth flat empty roads. Zoommm!





You ever watch The Blues Brothers?



We're on a mission from God...



Another pretty lake!





Driving across the dam!



The huge Texas sky. You can see forever!





Cool, an OLD wagon!



Now where does this road go.......?



It goes to an old bridge over a creek. Good place for more pics!





Almost home



VERY cool name for a highway!



Made it home. Hope you enjoyed the pics!

Have a great weekend all and keep them on the road!

-Mike

Car looks great. I can't wait to find another RMW.

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Then got this cool pic on a closed train track:

Those tracks aren't closed. Look at the tops of the rails

I love the shots of the wagon and the F-4! Cool. I didn't know you guys still had green grass this time of year.

Love the pics! Looks like you had a great time Beautiful wagon.

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It was a really good weekend!

And to answer the last few posts, the train tracks went into a rock factory and there was a gate right up the tracks from the car. Even still I made real sure nothing was coming and left the car running! Ha!

Eastern Texas, from north to south, stays pretty green all summer, they get rain often.
Where I live in Central Texas it's a crap-shoot in August. If we have a wet spring it can still be green all summer, but if we have a dry July then by August most of the grass is getting brown. Luckily we always get "spring 2" from mid Sept-Nov the rains come back and it all bloooms out again. ; )

Thanks for all the nice comments! I really do love that car....even though my wife groaned when I put it back in the driveway tonight. Had been at my buddies shop for three weeks and my wife told me she'd "almost forgotten it". Ahh marriage.....

-Mike

Bah! Show her the forum! lol

Anything over 10 years old is junk to her. I knew it when I married her. As longs as I keep her in newer cars she pretty much lets me drive what I like.

Such fun!

-Mike

That was a great day of driving, even though it was HOT. Just looking at these pics and itching for another road-trip...

Maybe I can get out of town this weekend. Sure would like to hit the road a bit...