Day 8

 

Lexington Nebraska to Kearney Nebraska

 

 

 

We slept in this morning!  It was so wonderful to keep hitting the snooze button on the alarm for a half hour until 7 am.  We got ready for the day, Vaughn went to wash the car and get it shined up for the parade.  At 10:30 we were sitting at the old walmart parking lot.  There we had parking assignments in order of the year of the car we were driving.  We were in number 52.  We talked to everyone, and took pictures of all of our friends and their cars.

 

 

 

 

"Rosie"

 

 

Then at about 11:00 we pulled out in follow the leader!  The Veterans of America Motorcycle Club escorted us out of Lexington, stopping traffic at all the intersections, and riding in front, in the middle and at the end.

 

 

 

 

We drove for 35 miles on the Lincoln Highway, through a couple of small towns, and into Kearney Nebraska, where we drove through the main street of town while coming from the other direction was the tour from the East.  Talk about wonderful. All the way down the street we were honking, and waving while there were thousands and thousands of people on the sidewalks waving to us.

 





 

 

 

 

This is the other GTO from the East tour, we had been in contact with the owners and planned to meet in Kearney

 

 

As we neared the parade route, we were told to stay behind the car in front of us by 3 car lengths so the announcer could tell about our car and announce our names and where we were from.  While waiting our turn, we were parked in front of this auto shop and saw this sign

 

 

Then we found ourselves driving down the parade route, and heard some from the crowd yell "YEAH UTAH" , it made us proud! 

 

 

 

 

We were told there was 100,000 spectators there.

 

 

There was also a fun car show there along with our cars.  Here are some pictures of the cars we liked best

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After spending the afternoon here, we headed to the Holiday Inn for the Post - Tour Party.

 

We were fed wonderful appetizers, and then we had some of the official tour directors speak.  Then we said our good-byes.  We made so many new friends, traded emails, phone numbers, and were sorry to see this fun time end.

 

We finally met up with John and Wendy O'Connor, who had the GTO from the east, and took some photos

 

 

 

 

 

We are headed out in the morning, headed East on the Lincoln Highway, but at a faster pace than we have been for the past week.  Stay tuned....we are only half  way to New York!