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  • An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure: And On To The B's Nest

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    So after spending another delight filled evening with thefoamguy and his beautiful wife, this olelongrooffan arose from a slumber on the Monday after the 4th of July realizing moving on to the conclusion of this Unexpected Road Trip Adventure was necessary. (This olelongroofan does apologize to my fellow Hoons but a whole lot of socializing,…

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  • An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure: Wagon Wednesday

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    So there this olelongrooffan was continuing on with my Unexpected Road Trip Adventure and I was up there in Greenfield, Missouri getting some go juice, and ice, at the local Casey’s General Store. Now this is not an old school general store as seen down on Old Route 66 but one of a chain of…

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  • An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure: The End Is Nigh

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    So after taking leave of the thefoamguy and his wonderful wife’s lake house, the plan was to meet up with them later at their home in the Queen City of the Ozarks prior to heading down to another lake in TaneyCoMo. Now as those two have their longstanding rituals of what it takes to close…

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  • An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure: The Party At BabySisterJoan's Pad

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    This was to have published prior to my “On To The Lake” post last week but somehow when saving this one, I lost a bunch of it. So enjoy a moment back in time courtesy of this olelongrooffan. So here is this olelongrooffan on An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure the first week in July, 2015…

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  • True Companion: Driving a Peugeot 205 XS to the Nürburgring, Part III

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    After our Romanian leg of the trip was done, we headed to Serbia by crossing the Donau River near Gura Vaii. We drove the riverbank road to Golubac, and spent the night in a guest house close by. The border crossing was somewhat intense, as the guards eyed at our vehicles, and we drove past…

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  • True Companion: Driving a Peugeot 205 XS to the Nürburgring, Part II

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    In the previous post, I outlined how we drove from Finland to the southern border of Poland, then to Slovakia and Hungary in a matter of days, and continued south on our long way around to the Nürburgring. So, Romania. We crossed the Hungarian-Romanian border at Oradea, and up until then we had pretty much…

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  • True Companion: Driving a Peugeot 205 XS to the Nürburgring, Part I

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    Every summer, there’s a gathering of gearheads at the famous Nürburgring in Germany. Well, obviously there are gearheads there every day that the ‘Ring is open, but I’m referring to the FinalGear Ringmeet, a yearly thing where a bunch of friends drive to the track and have hilarious breakdowns on the way. I’ve been there…

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  • An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure: And On To The Lake

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    So this olelongrooffan is still on my Unexpected Road Trip Adventure and after leaving all those narrow bridges in my wake, I was hot footing it up to spend some time with some old friends at their weekend home on the shores of Stockton Lake. Lo and behold was this olelongrooffan surprised to see these…

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  • An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure: Off To Paris Springs Junction

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    So the day after attending BabySisterJoan’s 3rd of July party, obstensably the reason for this Unexpected Road Trip Adventure this olelongrooffan is embarking upon, a trip to a friend’s lake home was in order. A bonus for this adventure was that to get there, I could either drive directly through the farmlands of southwest Missouri…

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  • An Unexpected Road Trip Adventure: A Stroll Through Bus_Plunge's Miniature Barn

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    So continuing on with this Unexpected Road Trip Adventure, I thought we might take a stroll through my brother, Bus_Plunge’s, miniature barn he has resting comfortably in his backyard. It is crammed full of all sorts of cool stuff with tools and the odd diecast or tin type on the first floor while the upstairs…

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