FullThrottle
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3400 mile trek, Capt. Kirk & 007 Jaws, Pinball HOF, atomic museum and crackhouse raid
Guys and gals, I just got back from a very crazy and fun filled 3432 mile roadtrip and thought I'd share my adventures. Capt. Kirk & 007 Jaws, Pinball HOF, atomic museum and crackhouse raid doesn't even cover half of the story.
I'll break the posting into days and places as to have a little seperation between visits and where I was and what I did...
I had agreed last year to move a cabinet from California for a fellow klover, I had no clue I be phasing down on the hobby and not able to make the trip to the CAX arcade game show. I needed another excuse quick to make a drive down to pickup a game for someone else and somehow turn it into a vacation with the time and money spent to make it happen.
I started out on a Thursday last week for a banzai run down to Las Vegas to meet William Shatner and have him sign my Star Trek pinball machine next to where I currently have Leonard Nimoy's John Handcock on my backglass!
The first night I didn't LEAVE until 5pm and was pissed I was departing my house 8 hours past when I wanted to!! I had to pull an all nighter and drove 800 miles into Placerville for my first stop and to drop off a cabinet I brought down for Arcade Junkie... I took a nap in his driveway before he woke up and came outside... Funny as hell, I had driven down there and stopped at the wrong house a few down from ArcadeJunkies! So here I knock on the wrong door at 7am and can see that a VERY VERY FAT GUY IN HIS UNDERWEAR is trying to remain still on the other side of the window as I knock away! AHH!!! Wrong house I got a fat naked guy not ArcadeJunky!!!!
Guys and gals, I just got back from a very crazy and fun filled 3432 mile roadtrip and thought I'd share my adventures. Capt. Kirk & 007 Jaws, Pinball HOF, atomic museum and crackhouse raid doesn't even cover half of the story.
I'll break the posting into days and places as to have a little seperation between visits and where I was and what I did...
I had agreed last year to move a cabinet from California for a fellow klover, I had no clue I be phasing down on the hobby and not able to make the trip to the CAX arcade game show. I needed another excuse quick to make a drive down to pickup a game for someone else and somehow turn it into a vacation with the time and money spent to make it happen.
I started out on a Thursday last week for a banzai run down to Las Vegas to meet William Shatner and have him sign my Star Trek pinball machine next to where I currently have Leonard Nimoy's John Handcock on my backglass!
The first night I didn't LEAVE until 5pm and was pissed I was departing my house 8 hours past when I wanted to!! I had to pull an all nighter and drove 800 miles into Placerville for my first stop and to drop off a cabinet I brought down for Arcade Junkie... I took a nap in his driveway before he woke up and came outside... Funny as hell, I had driven down there and stopped at the wrong house a few down from ArcadeJunkies! So here I knock on the wrong door at 7am and can see that a VERY VERY FAT GUY IN HIS UNDERWEAR is trying to remain still on the other side of the window as I knock away! AHH!!! Wrong house I got a fat naked guy not ArcadeJunky!!!!
