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Well, getting back to the main subject here- I only chained up once in my life. A guy gave me a set of chains that fit my Ford Ranger pickup because he didn't need them anymore. We had a pretty deep snow one time, 6 or 8 inches anyway, and I put them on pretty much just to try them out. Drove out the driveway and over to the beer store and back, no problem.

He doesn't care about sauce dripping on you, he just doesn't want you to know that it came from WaWa 🤣

As a matter of fact...

I parked at the Boy Scout lot the first time I went, it's on the left just before you get to the park if you're coming south on 100. The other times we parked at the fire department lot, it's to the right just across from the park.

That's a great excursion, I really enjoyed the old steel mill, but I loaded beams there a lot in the 80's. Very interesting for anyone to see though.

Bob that means he will bring some Reynolds wrap from home to re-wrap the meatball sub in that he got from WaWa.

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They're all conked out now. I'm pretty much conked out too.

They might even have a decent meatball sub at the WaWa just down the street from the motel.

Maybe, I thought sure Randy would know a lot about Allentown/Bethlehem but maybe not.

Haven't seen any Moxie yet!

Absolutely! Glad you found him, I don't know what we would have done if we hadn't found Roman, or if something had happened to him. He's never spent a night outdoors in his life and he's not used to traffic at all. We have about 3 or four cars go by our house a day, and 2 of them are probably the same guy 🤣. It's a different world up here, I can't wait to leave.

We probably should have filled up before we got to Connecticut. We did get to Sam the Clam's yesterday for whole belly clams, but we had to leave early because the three teenagers who were dog sitting let Roman bolt out of the door and disappear into the woods, no doubt looking for me. He hates to be left. So he's lost in the woods somewhere in Connecticut, where he doesn't know anybody. We looked and called from 7:30 until 10:30 when he came out of the woods and ran to Zina. I was out walking the streets and calling him, pretty much as lost as he was. The great thing was all the people, lots of people in that neighborhood, Zina's friends, animal control, everybody was looking for him. The kid who let him get away felt terrible and needless to say I was highly pissed but I told him things happen, we're just thankful he found his way back and was safe and sound. These are the whole belly clams- I went with the fish and chips myself.

We're in Southington CT. right now. We're going to see Zina's dad and some more of her family while we're here, her father is 90 years old. Gets around good though. But the other thing she always does when we come up here is go to "Sam the Clam's" for whole belly clams, she loves them. We'll leave here Wednesday and head on to Macungie.

Those mirrors in the Mosques- that's just amazing! The whole building is amazing!

He saw me in Oklahoma one time but I didn't see him. That's as close as I ever came to meeting him, but I agree totally with what you said about just reading his posts. He was a good man.

I took the car back to Winfall to the Winfall Garage. Just to have it checked over before our trip.

A little diesel fuel will take care of them. I mean, that's what I've heard...

So, I have a question, if it's ok to ask a question. Let's say somebody was going to Macungie and they didn't know the Allentown area very well- is there a restaurant in particular they should try, or something to see that they just shouldn't leave without seeing first? Besides the the world's greatest antique truck show I mean.

No, but you "SEEMED" to be. 🤣

I know everybody's tired of hearing about the big green truck that didn't run. So yesterday I drove the old Ford up to the dumpster site and to Sheetz to get some non-ethanol gas for the lawn mower. It was the first time it had even been started since the last time, and it fired right up and ran like a clock. I even washed it, it was started to get the brown moldy looking crud on it, from being parked by the trees I guess. Probably the cleanest it's been in a year. The red paint is pretty faded too, and that's supposed to be half decent paint- Timmy painted Chief's Freightliner with it. The white stripes on the other hand still look pretty good - better than the red. And I painted them myself with Rust-Oleum spray paint. Maybe I should paint the big green International with Rust-Oleum. I took the Zinamobile over to the Winfall car wash and had it washed because they detail the interior for you too. We're going to drive it to Macungie so we wanted it clean.

It is, those were great times and great people. Everybody seemed to be there. I remember when Vlad was there, I think that was the first time me and Zina were there. And maybe the last time.

Thank you Vlad, those are just some fantastic pictures! Did you take those with a camera or your phone? If you took all those with your phone, that's the kind of phone I want.

I already looked into getting a Twin Peaks franchise in beautiful downtown Spout Spring, but since I already bought an old truck I can no longer afford to. But if it weren't for that... Here's all the waitresses from the Winfall Twin Peaks at their annual photoshoot. I just happened to be passing by and took a drive-by picture, I didn't have time to stop.