A Cross-Country Driving Trip in Our Morgan

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Preparation

The Caboose Run

Boise and Park City

Bryce and Zion

Antelope Canyon

Grand Canyon

Cumbres & Toltek R'way

Getting to Nachez

Nachez Trace

Franklin & Athens

Blue Ridge Parkway

Concours

Autocross

Virginia

Annapolis

Finger Lakes

Niagara Falls

Iowa

The Home Stretch

MOG 36 Arrival, Concours, Gymkhana and Sightseeing in the Area

Friday, June 30 - To Shepherdstown, WV

We had a pleasant chat over breakfast with another couple who were guests at the B&B.  Then, packed up, we headed for Shepherdstown.  We got to the Clarion Hotel a little before 1:00 with 6,004 miles behind us in the last four weeks.

    Arrival mileage - 6,004 miles from home

Friday evening there was a welcome 'picnic' and we had plenty of time to meet other Morgan owners.

        Some of the folks at the arrival picnic

Saturday, July 1 - The Concours and Gymkhana

Mel stayed at the hotel on Saturday morning while I headed to the Concours.  I had planned to enter Moggie in the Drivers class, but there was a Late 4/4s class with no entrants.  So Moggie became the token Late 4/4 and the class winner.  The Peter Morgan class is for previous winners.

                Our Late 4/4, Early 4/4s, Plus 4s, four-seaters and Drophead Coupes

                Plus 8s, Drivers, Competition cars and New cars

            One trike and the Peter Morgan class

When all the class judging was complete, the class winners were driven to the center of the field for judging for best of show.  Moggie is no trailer queen and had no chance.

        The class winners

I picked up Mel and we went for some lunch, then returned to the field for the Gymkhana.  This is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin and he was the theme.  On one part of the course there was a tribute to his invention of the bifocal.  The driver was blindfolded and the navigator had to direct the driver through a three cone chicane and into a 'garage' formed by more cones.  Mel did a great job and we didn't knock over any cones.

    How close were we to 300 yards?

            The navigator directs the blindfolded driver through the course

Another part of the course had to do with Ben's association with fire departments.  The navigator was given a cup of water and had to try to keep as much as possible in the cup while the driver ran through a chicane, over some 'railroad tracks' and back through the chicane again.  Mel did a very fine job as I bounded over field and tracks.

            Mel did a great job of carrying the cup of water

After the Gymkhana we headed for Harper's Ferry.  TTS and I had tried to find the place two years earlier but seemed to go round and round on the Harper's Ferry Road detour.

        The band at Harper's Ferry and the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers