My apologies everyone - I had planned to keep this a 'real time' blog, but since I landed in Lincoln, we've had some adventures!

First of all, Brandon & Roger met me at the airport in Ruby Jane - she looks fantastic, and does sound great. However, not all was perfect.. In fact, I am currently writing this as we sit in Roger's shop on Wednesday morning (the plan was to be well into the scenic Nebraska countryside by now). We had a few concerns with the way she was running, and Brandon's friend Barry from way back came over and was giving her a look. He had a buddy, Cory, who was a whiz with engines. It turns out that the distributor was missing some weights interenally, and thus when we accelerated the timing was actually retarding (my apologies to the non-tech readers - please bear with these specialized references, they will be common, hopefully not too common!). He put some weights on it, adjusted the timing, and she is running very smooth now.

But our adventures had just begun! On our way from Lincoln to Brandon's parents' house, we took a 'detour' thru an adjacent town to get some food (not a lot of food options out in the metropolis area we were driving thru...). We had on a few occasions scraped the exhaust - regular headers on a lowered Chevelle tends to let that happen. But as we went over one bump, the exhaust separated from the header on the left side, and started dragging! Of course this happens pretty much in the middle of absolutely nowhere! There was a reason that I updated my AAA to premium.... We called AAA, somehow they figured out where we were (turned out that Brandon's parents knew the guy that came out - love the small town relationships), and he came out with the proper tools (clothes hangers and some pliers), and got her rigged up so we could get her back to Brandon's folks' place.

Whew! This isn't turning out to be a short blog, is it? Sorry about that - I will shut down now, as it seems that we are almost ready to roll (fingers crossed!). The story shall continue later....