RenegadeRider

The Reno Corvettes drove in the parade for the Truckee High School Homecoming.  Seven Corvettes participated.  We carried the Homecoming King and Queen and members or the Court. Sophomore Prince & Princess, My Passengers   My charge was the Sophomores.  The Sophomores float theme was Alice in wonderland.  I'm not sure of the themes for the other grades because once I received my asignment I no longer had the lluxury off exploration.  Soph's Alice in Wonderland Float Now, every adventure requires something going wrong and this was no different.  The kids had a music CD to  entertain us along the parade route.  The problem was that mine would not play.  In case you should wonder, I had never played a CD in the entire time we owned the car.  I had no idea if the system worked or not.   We tried every possible combination and then I turned it over to the "engineers".  They eventually settled on plan "B". ...

While returning home last evening from visiting my sister in Oregon we passed through the town of Lakeview, OR.  We noticed a group of people working on a display project to remember the attacks on our nation ten years earlier.  We stopped and visited with  them and commended them for their spirit. It was fairly late in the day so the photo doesn't quite do the scene justice, but I'll try to explain what we saw.  As you can see, they had reproduced the twin towers.  The flag displayed from the top of the towers honors the heroes of flight 93.  The chains surrounding the boundary of the display was composed of paper links glued together, much like we may have made back in grade school to hand on the Christmas tree.  Each link bore the name of someone that had perished in the attack.  Every one of the victims was included.  They told us of the ceremonies planned for the next day, including having the town fire truck displaying a huge Ame...