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Originally Posted by Indian113
Rian, I'm Sorry to hear about this! I know that your pets were precious to you and loved vey deeply. Ray
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Coming to our visit to your home now, I can also add that you are equally attached to your family and even more to your pets Ray.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you Craig for the insert.
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Onward we travelled.
The further we went, the more the Silverado proved itself to be the right choice for this part of the road trip.
Comfy, tall, panoramic views and an eager, very eager motor.
Passing some beautiful farms and homesteads.
Then we rolled into Monroe. Iowa.
Ray had already started up the gas BBQ back home.
Greeted like friends, not strangers, Ray showed us around, his LS powered S10 license breaker, our camper where we had selected to sleep, in order to give us and them privacy.
Then the Dogs, both the Duke and Duchess.
And finally, though one cold not miss it.....
His 1966 Cadillac Coupe De Ville with well under 40k miles.
Next thing he offered it to me.
“Take it for a good ride, don’t be scared to drive it” he said to me next......
No need to offer again. Pretty cool to be headed out in an iconic car less than half an hour after landing at our latest host.
After I came back, the car had left me gushing like a teenager at her favourite teen idols music concert, this land yacht was just so smooth, and the massive V8 just wafted along effortlessly. Craig took it for a drive too.
Both of us had silly grins on our return.
VIDEO. CLICK LINK.
https://youtu.be/3vv6EP3DIE0
After unpacking, settling in and enjoying the dogs, we had dinner, before Eve got home, well, really as she got home.
Those pork chops were just crazy good. Nothing like fresh, homewrown food.
The potato salad had me reaching over three times to load up again.
We relaxed, all of us just having such a good time.
I have to say publically that Ray is a lucky man (Eve probably a lucky girl) that he has a wife who is a nurse,but also has a natural mothering tendency.
She could not do enough for Craig and I.
The dogs were very settled, and little Duchess had formed some attachment to Craig, weird that.
After a good nights sleep in the massive camper, we showered etc.
Coming back into the house to breakfast and cake.....
What??
I hear you say.
Yup, Eve had baked us a cinnamon cake in the oven for breakfast as well.
My kinda girl for sure.
BUT THERE WAS A TRICK UP HER SHORT LITTLE SLEEVE.
We both had two pieces.
Then she innocently asked us if we knew why she had fed us cake for breakfast
We had both been bitten repeatedly by mosquitoes at Andy and other places, plus my back had been biting and bugging me since before we left 5e UK.
Seems cinnamon has anti inflammatory properties.
Thanks Eve.
So what do you do in the middle of Iowa??
Antiques of course.
So we headed out to the car.
Camper and Silverado in the background, as well as Eves work car with Ray loving his car.
And with his little pocket rocket, who is 5’2” tall or is that short, but larger than life.
He also built her a custom Harley.
When they ended up with a family of four daughters and the two of them, he added a sidecar for two to his bike, Eve took one on the back of her bike and they had two in the side car, one on the rear of his bike.........
Sturgis is their yearly fix.
Then we set off.
These American motorways really suit this car down to a T.
CLICK LINK FOR VIDEO.
https://youtu.be/PG5rdNF_qN0
CAR IN ITS ELEMENT.
Loved these signs, they are REAL America and indicated we had made it to places only seen in movies for most of us
50 miles later, windows down in the fresh morning air, via a detour to show us more of downtown Des Moines Ray brings to beast to a halt in a carpark outside the Brass Armadillo
This car is a dream.
This is antique store Central.
I do hope those of you still following and actually reading the words, will also enjoy the next photodump of random photos from inside the shop.
Well, it’s more of a massive warehouse with sublet shops and tenants inside.