It was a beautiful beginning of the day as Butch Cornes pulled into my driveway to begin our trip to Charlotte, NC, for the MARC Membership Meeting. We set out on the great adventure. Following procedure of always keeping an eye out for the car in your rear view mirror we proceeded to leave the Baltimore/Washington area. At first we were on very nice roads, but as we continued along the road got more narrow and then turned to dirt. Then it went down a hill and disappeared at a sign that said we were in a flood area. Lo and behold, the sign was correct. We faced a stream about 30 feet wide and about 8 to 10 inches deep. At this point we had to make a decision whether to ford the stream or turn around and find another road. We decided to try to ford the stream, so Ron jumped on the running board of Steve’s car to take pictures of the rest of the cars on their way through the stream. It was like being back in the ’30s with this experience.
Article by Bud Carroll, Photos by Ron Fayer
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- Trying to change a frozen wheel bearing in Haymarket, Virginia
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- Still trying to fix the wheel bearing
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- Jon at a lunch break stop
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- Parking lot adjustments at the meeting
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- Hendrick builds over 700 engines each year in this sparking clean shop
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- Race car frame
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- NASCAR race cars built by Hendrick Motorsports with light and grille decals
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- Restaurant near Great Wolf Lodge
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- Bud changing oil at Great Wolf
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- Morning after a hard rain
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- Great Wolf Lodge meeting place
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- A pretty country road somewhere in Virginia
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- “No, officer, we couldn’t be going over 65 mph”
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- Roadside brake adjustment
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- One more drop
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- Gassing up in Virginia
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- Passing through Leesburg, VA
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- Leaving the ferry headed towards Leesburg
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- Crossing the Potomac on White’s Ferry
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- Waiting for the ferry
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- Fords fording ford on the way to White’s Ferry, April 2013
