We still have…
…one more day of shooting for the Yearbook at E@RTC, plus we will be going straight to the collections to shoot in front of where the cars are sitting rather than have them all come out with one car at a time. Cameras are easier to move than cars. So are people. Most people. Okay, I know one or two who’d be hard to move.
We’re already up to around 200 cars photographed, so we’re making good progress. It was a lot of fun seeing everyone last weekend and we’re just waiting for a break in the weather before we announce the next shooting day. For now it looks like rain for a while. This would normally be when we call an end to our season.
Pop Up!
We still plan to do a popup event car. This means, the minute all this is over, and we get a nice clear day in the forecast, we’ll do an E@RTC just for fun and we’ll all feel that hypothermia together. Should be a good time. We’ll call it the big shiver. We’ll bring out our blast heater, “Sir Heats-a-Lot” and melt a few shoes like we did in our second season. You’d be standing there warming up, and you wouldn’t notice your shoe roasting and melting like that marshmallow that fell off your stick. You wouldn’t notice how hot your foot was until it was way, way, too late and you’d involuntary River Dance all over the place until it cooled down. Good times!
We can’t wait to resume E@RTC with some sense of normalcy. By next spring, hopefully we’ll have the elections all settled and people can go back to being friends again and only argue about cars and sports teams. Those were the days. Covid will be a weird memory, and there should be some sense of sanity in our lives. We want to get back to just having fun. 2020 was like riding in a packed bus full of sweaty people going the wrong way… down a hill…with no brakes… while playing polka music…and on fire… We all just want it to be over. The Violent Schitz would also be a great name for a polka band. By the way, now the WHO is saying lockdowns are a bad idea. Every health organization has flopped more times than a freshly landed trout, yet some still want to argue.
Cascade Loop
We managed to pick off another long day of driving the Cascade Loop. It’s my third time this year and the colors were beautiful as you’d anticipate. Sun Mountain Lodge is still one of the best car destinations in Washington and it won’t be long before the North Cascade Highway closes for the season so get out there and drive it while you can. Three days after we did the loop they got about a foot of snow, so check to see if the stuff has melted. You’re otherwise screwed until spring.
That drive is perfect for loading up the car with friends and heading out for a day of it. It’s best to overnight at Sun Mountain or someplace nearby. Why rush? The place was empty. So was the restaurant. Food was good!
We’re going to do the Olympic loop next. It’s one for driving in the rain. I mean hard, fire hose kind of rain. It’s almost the exact same number of miles as the Cascade Loop, only no real mountains to cross. People have the same number of missing teeth either way, so there is about the same amount of involuntary whistling when you stop. If you don’t like trees, the Olympic Loop is not for you. It’s otherwise another nice drive.
We’ll keep you up to date here about what’s next. We will need your help getting the word out when we do our next thing so stay tuned!