Spring Mystery Tour in CMP

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Harry

Sounds like an interesting trip, you have more wild country out there to play in, believe.

If we ran a trip here in New Hampshire from the lowest point sea level to the highest 6288 ft is what we would get. Strangely the won't let us drive up and down the auto road on Mt Washington with our MVs, we've asked suspect that it is the coming down the are worried about.

So instead we go up and down a lot of back road hills.

Cheers Phil

[Harry Moon]

"...Even the trip over the Hurley which is paved started with 1 hour and 15 minutes in 2nd or 3rd never building up speed more than 15-18 in my CMP and some more modern trucks couldn't even match that."

Truth is myself and several others went a much longer route back just to avoid going back down that section. We got a ribbing for it but I'm still married!

[Phil Waterman]

Hi


Yesterday was our MV Club's 2012 Spring Tour, they were forecasting 2-4 inches of rain but instead it was under an inch. All the people who would have brought their Jeeps or M37s on a sunny day came in their POVs but they came anyway which was good.

My concession to the weather was putting in the side curtains in the C60S Beauty and hit the road. Ridding in CMP with the side curtains in place is not as enjoyable as without so it is my last concession to the elements.

Picture below as taken in a parking lot at one our stops, trying to back into parking spaces with the side curtains in place and fogged up is a bit of a challenge. As you can see I didn't quite get straight between the lines but on the good side I didn't back over the car or hit the tree behind, so I count that as a win.

This time of the year with Memorial Day Celebrations spread out over three weekends means a number of parades in a short period of time. Club did eight parades but I enjoy the small town parades the best. People just seem to appreciate the importance of the event more.

The Picture above is taken at one of the Veterans Cemetery's that dates to 1860s the parade is short all down hill inside the cemetery grounds but the people are great because they have come out of their way to attend. Short video of helicopter (large file) coming in http://canadianmilitarypattern.com/R...wel%202012.wmv

Just in general having fun.

Cheers Phil