Re: [Leica] Long strange trip

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Harrison-
Not being a golfer, you probably didn't realize the Greater Greensbor
Chrysler Classic ( still left out Daimler this year!) was held recently, and
for the month of April, they ship in weird weather to the state! I think
there is a PGA rule that outlaws nice weather for this tournament!  That,
and the Furniture market- they send in cold weather, and raise all the
restaurant prices, in order to make all them there Yankee furniture buyers
feel at home!
It is just an extension of March Madness... Y'all come back, real soon now,
hyeah?
Dan (Doopyrot! Whar did y'all put my bib dungerhauls, and brogans?)

- -----Original Message-----
From: Harrison McClary <harrison@mcclary.net>
To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 1:22 AM
Subject: [Leica] Long strange trip


>I just got back from a trip across North Carolina...man what a weird
>trip, when did they make NC a dern Yankee state???
>
>I left Nashville Wednesday morning and it was sunny and very warm, could
>tell Summer is starting.  Got into Asheville Wednesday to scout locations
>to shoot a skyline shot for the Asheville Convention and visitors
>magazine we do and it was cold and rainy/foggy....was beginning to regret
>not bringing any long sleeve shirts.
>
>Thursday AM we headed to Grandfather mountain to meet with Hugh Morton
>and look over his photos for possible use in the North Carolina Travel
>Guide we  produce for the state of NC.  Was a very slow drive as we tried
>to drive the Blue Ridge parkway...so foggy we could only see a few feet
>in front of the car...finally got off the parkway and had slightly better
>luck on the highways.  After looking over Mr. Morton's stock we headed
>south to Charlotte...drove through snow in Blowing Rock!!!! SNOW in the
>next to last day of April in a southern state!!!  Was REALLY regretting
>not bringing any long sleeve shirts.
>
>Thursday evening pulled into Charlotte to shoot the Carolina Panthers NFL
>spring practice and get photos of the new guys for the next issue of
>"Panther Pride" a magazine we do for the Panthers.
>
>Friday on the way to the practice fields we stop at K Mart and get some
>long sleeve shirts, smart move on our parts as it was about 50 degrees
>with at least 30 mph winds, and some rain.  My blasted Canon F1 crapped
>out on me (actually crapped out at the last game last year and I forgot
>about it, seldom use this lens/camera and I forgot it had a problem...oh
>well it has given me 10 years of service with no stoppage even after
>being dropped so hard it bent the advance lever so bad it was not usable,
>6 years ago).  Fortunately I had adapted my ancient 600 to an EOS mount,
>Donal thank Helmut for making that thing a "T" mount!!!
>
>So we shot the morning practice then drove up to the Lowe's Motor
>Speedway (formerly the Charlotte Motor Speedway) to get a shot of the new
>sign out front for the NASCAR magazine we do...no such sign to be seen.
>Guess the millions Lowe's spent was not enough for a sign. ;)  Did get a
>shot of the new interstate signs "Lowe's Motor Speedway exit 49".
>
>Went back to the Practice fields and shot the afternoon practice then we
>drove back to Nashville.  Left Charlotte at 3:30pm CDT got home at 9:50pm
>CDT  We were humming!!  I think I averaged 70mph between Asheville and
>Knoxville through the mountains.  If you have ever driven this stretch of
>highway you know what a feat this was.  Mark, JCI's vice president of
>editorial, and my traveling companion on this trip was white knuckling
>the "oh shit" bar the whole way...
>
>Oh well I ended up shooting only 11 rolls of film, got all I needed for
>the Panthers magazine but not much else.  Found out the two angles of
>Asheville are not really what we were hoping for and saw some nice stuff
>from Mr Morton's files.  If any of ya'll know of any neat shots of the
>Asheville skyline putting it in a Mountain setting let me know.
>
>Sorry to all you NC Luggers, was hoping that I'd have time to drink a
>beer or two, but we were very busy this trip.  Hopefully later when I am
>working on the Panthers mag and only on that mag I can meet up with some
>of ya'll then.
>
>
>Best regards,
>Harrison McClary
>email: harrison@mcclary.net
>http://www.mcclary.net
>preview my book: http://www.volmania.com
>
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