"Quite a trip if I do say so myself. 1326 Miles to Williamsburg Va. 200 or so while in Williamsburg, 1352 miles home for a total of 2878. Pretty good trip for two old people and a 1925 Packard to The National Meet for Packard Automobile Classics the trip to Williamsburg was something else. We had a strong head wind every foot of the way, when was the last time we had 4 days of wind out of the east? I told everyone that it would be out of the West when we started home but it was not to be. We had no wind on Saturday, a little head wind on Sunday and a tail wind on Monday!! I asked my wife to look at the map, maybe we were going the wrong way. The car was running so good, tail wind and all we drove 532 miles on Monday and ;made it all the way home. We did have to use the lights since we used 30 min. of daylight changing an electronic ignition part that quit near Shreveport. Long day but we could not justify staying the night close to home.With the overdrive we were getting about 12 MPG on the highway which we considered good. That justified my combined 18 MPG that I claim,(8 in town, 10 on the road) Had a lot of questions from interested people on the way, most asked other than year and make was 1.) tires, 2.) gas mileage and 3.) "is it a kit car?" I would almost snarl at that. The meet itself was great, good touring even if it did rain after lunch on Tuesday, the day we toured plantations. Other than that we never had bad weather, cool mornings, warm not hot afternoons. Lots to eat, about 60 beautiful cars, lots of new friends. The hotel was great, on banquet evening after I cleaned up and started to get dressed I discovered that I did not have a tie, called the desk to see if they had one that had been left previously, no they didn't. What color did I need, blue, ten minutes later they called me with a blue tie. The lady in charge of the front desk bought one, a very nice one, just for me. We had a very knowledgeable historian speak to us at the banquet. The hardships that the pilgrims faced at Jamestown and Yorktown it is amazing that we have America and the events around Richmond and the peninsula campaign during the civil war it is surprising that we have the United States. All in all it was a good trip, a few inconveniences, nothing that we could not handle with the parts and tools we had. I do expect this to be our last long trip, We have two short ones planned for October though."
David Stewart
