This morning we decided to fore go the sunrise in Yellowstone park and instead sleep in (well, some of us...Dave was up at 5:50 am as usual) and then go back to our favorite dinner spot, Buckaroo Bills, for the all you can eat breakfast. The night before we had worn our famous Flamingo shirts which the waitress absolutely loved and we promised that we would be back in the morning with our other shirts. We arrived about an hour before the buffet would close and I parallel parked the beast right in front of the restaurant(yes you did read that right, I parallel parked a 25 foot RV) and we made a grand entrance to the place in our soon to be world famous tiki shirts. Our waitress from the night before was there again as well as some of her friends that had heard the lovely tale of the triplets from Virginia. During our dinner the night before we had talked about how cool it would be if we came back and took this very route on the 25 year Anniversary of this trip with our families and three different RVs. At the conclusion of a nice breakfast, our waitress friends just had to have a picture of us (because of our dashing good looks, not the shirts as some of you may presume), that we prey will be on the wall when we return in 2033!
After a wonderful time in Yellowstone we are officially back on the road again from Wyoming to Crater Lake, OR. Along this journey we have crossed the 3,000 mile mark in our journey. Normally this would mean that we should be changing the oil, however our vehicle seems to eat up the oil at a much faster rate than most cars, so we've changed it about once every 500 miles! The driving once again has provided some some spectacular views of our country. We have also now gone through 15 states on our journey.
Since I once again have the driving day to write about there's not too much to speak of, so I will bring up another subject. Mike, Dave, and I have been discussing what to name the RV the past few days, and we are looking to you, our faithful readers to vote on what the RV should be called. I will not mention who came up with the names in order to avoid bias. The choices are as follows:
1) Dolly
2) Hank
3) Bobby Sue
4) Other (make suggestions)
Please post your vote through our comments section and the RV will take the name of the most popular vote!
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I guess that I have to vote for "Dolly," because it is too weird to think of you guys sleeping with either "Hank" or "Bobby." However, why not call her what you called her in today's blog -- "THE BEAST" ???
Hank, for sure.
Although I agree with Gary, "The Beast" seems to be a pretty fitting name.
So my votes for The Beast, and if not...Hank. It's as close to beastly as you can get without saying it.
As you can tell, Gary should stick to law and not marketing. GOOD AND ORIGINAL suggestions would be "Charlotte" to reflect Charlottesville, VA (I believe there is a fine institution there);"Virginia" to reflect a fine East Coast state and insitution (double meaning); "B.P." for an outstanding chapter (Beta-Pi)or "T.J." for the founder of UVA- both look "cool" and manly. "CAV" would tie in athletics, but (as in school mascot) but not as catchy.
And if all else fails, you could always fall back and use "Gary" or better yet "Tash" as in "to the Tash mobile!" Enjoy the trip! IST.
"The Beast" Resonates with me.
I was coming here to vote for Bobby Sue but THE BEAST seems to be taking up the popular vote so that's fine with me. Kyle you parallel parked it? Should we enter you into the BB parallel parking contest soon to be held?
So I have been taking a little pole of people that haven't seen this post yet about what to name the rv. Mama and Papa Langman both said, Hank (the tank) when I asked them independently. Rob says Mater (like Tuh-mater, without the tuh). Bob says the keg because it's full of beer. I was thinking hank or garth.
Are we allowing proxy voting on this poll now??? I think that you guys have done a GREAT job of getting all of us involved in your excursion across the country -- hats off to the three of you !!! I am serious about you doing some sort of presentation at Convocation -- it would be totally awesome. P.S. who is pythagoras41?
BUFFALO VOTES IN WITH:
DOLLY
It was great meeting up with you guys in Crater Lake, it was good to see some familar faces! and your blog is way more popular than mine, no one ever comments. I'm sure charlotte and maverick were pretty happy to meet eachother also. I'll be following your guys trip, take care!
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Uncle Jerry and I vote for Hank as in Hank the Tank. By the way the fences you were wondering about are snow fences to help keep the snow from blowing across the road in those wide open spaces.
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