Goodbye dear sweet Daewhoopteedoo (A bad farewell poem)

I'm very sad our trip is done
Because we've had such tremendous fun

Although my rump is done with the sitting
the experience I won't soon be forgetting

143 turns in 11 miles on the Dragon
At least we didn't drive a wagon

Over winding roads and in funny dress
The Foam Henge was defiantly the best

The tires went round with a clunk, clunk, clunk
and caused us to have a little funk

We were asked to do challenges with pictures,poker and eggs
the tasks were to be completed on 5 different legs

In the evening wheels rolled in a parking lot race
Chris picked it up and soon took chase

The friends that we met were really swell
If you broke down they'd pull over as well

The car has been sold
it will be well cared for I'm told

SO...Goodbye to our dear Daewhoopteedoo
Our many headaches are finally though!

Daewhoopteedoo will be SOLD to the highest bidder TODAY!

If you would like to OWN the Daewhoopteedoo rally car, get your best offer to Carrie before 5:30PM Central today! 100% of this sale is going to Methodist Temple, no scam, no joke.

The car:

2000 Daewoo Leganza
81k miles
Clean title, but "rebuilt"
Power windows, cold AC, automatic trans, moon roof, other options.
Highway gas mileage measured to be 36mpg at 70mph with A/C on and tires at 40psi.

Call Methodist Temple Children's Center and ask to speak with Carrie if you want to make an offer or check out the car.

(812) 476-4671

Now I know my ABC's

We have already begun discussing possible bangers for future BABE Rallies.  We also discussed how we could use some of the challenge ideas for local rallies to spice them up and/or ideas for challenges for future BABE Rallies.

While we were in a Challenge mood we created one and did it on our way home.

The Challenge: The Alphabet game

The Rules: To take a picture of a word that begins with each letter of the Alphabet consecutively.  No skipping around.  The names of x and z cars may be used for works beginning with those letters.

So here goes...

Alabama

bankruptcy 

choose

Downtown

exit

Finley

GMC

Huntsville

it's the brand that starts with K, but it's fuzzy and I can't remember what they're called.  

limit

memorial

north

O'Charlies

piggie

quality

right

sleep

this turn

university

vinemont

w something....

x

yukon

zion

This is much more difficult if you have to get a picture of each letter.  Many of the letters we passed a few times before we were able to get a picture.  Or we passed the perfect thing just seconds before the letter that comes before it in the alphabet, so in my consecutive rule missed out on some great picts.

We're home now!

We completed 3370 miles total in our week long trek from Methodist Temple Children's Center to New York to New Orleans and back to MTCC.

Yesterday after breakfast Chris and I took a walk of the river front and the French Quarter.  We poked around in a couple of shops and then hopped in the car and drove through the Garden District on our way out of town.  We were pretty anxious to get home to Miles and our own home.  (Thank you again to Grandma and Grandpa for keeping Miles as our trip would not have been possible without you.)

Now that the car is home, we are auctioning off the car (The Formstack is working again.) at www.daewhoopteedoo.org

Day 5- A "race" to the French quarter

Today started like all the others (with Karin on the bull horn:) with 1 exception. We had 2 challenges instead of just one. The first challenge was to get a picture by pump one of every Loves, Pilot, and Flying J that we passed. As usual if you got a picture with a cop you got double the points. The second challenge was to see who had the best gas mileage. (We filled up at one Loves, refueled at another, and did the math.)  The rest of the trip was driving the trip as quickly as possible to make it to New Orleans by the 7:30 cut off time for points.

We used our knowledge of Myth Busters Episodes to maximize our fuel efficiency. We taped up the seams on the front of the car and window, topped it off to the top of the filler neck, and drove 55-60 mph with the windows up and the AC off. When we got to the refuel gas station we put 2.208 gallons in the car. That makes our fuel efficiency 52 mpg. Whooot!!!  

OK, I will admit that we think that there was something very wrong with the pump, because a minivan was only able to put .8 gallons of gas in their car when they arrived and they zoomed past us (twice).

The view from our Hotel.

Our Dinner.  Shrimp from by the gulf.  There's nothing else quite like it.  

 So the winners are....

For the “Spirit of the Event”/least bang for their buck: The 2 Horsemen of the Carpocalypse

(They ended up changing a head gasket among other issues.)

In 3^rd place: The Crapa

In 2^nd place: The Honey Wagon

In 1^st place: The Foolswagon

We would like to thank Justin and Karin for hosting this event! We had a ball!!

After the awards ceremony, we walked Bourbon Street where Julie and I rode a mechanical whale. (No I will not post the incriminating photographs of that!!) Chris and I found a cozy little Jazz club and listened to a few sets of a Jamil Sharif (a trumpet player). We ended up buying his CD.