Roadtrip Pics of my new 535

[rickm]

Asheville? You should have yelled. I live there, haven't been driving my E34 around. Depending on what day it was I could have tossed a chunk of bison on the grill.

[Gayle]

RickM--bison sounds good. sorry I missed it. did have some interesting food today though--alligator soup, crawdaddy pie, red beans, rice, and sausage. Locals steered us to favorite non tourist dive--Frankie and Johnny's. At the next table were 3 detectives wearing ties and packing heat. You know it is a good place when it gets the police vote.

Got the road grime of 2 tropical storms washed off the baby today. To find a hand wash, had to go to the ghetto--"World of Suds" which was a hose and vac in a vacant lot. I got to sit in a lawn chair in the shade of an I-10 overpass while Chad and Tony made her pretty again. Chad sweet talked her with "this bad boy--she's tight." She drove better after the bath.

First pic is the French Quarter school attended by Lee Harvey Oswald and Richard Simons. Hmm. Second picture is the place where Jennifer Flowers (Clinton's main squeeze before Monica) sings. Third one I think in the balcony from which the vodoo queens calls to Tiger Woods as he drives by in his Buick.

[rickm]

If you feel like more time in Louisiana (or looser-anna as Winfred calls it), head west over to Abbeville and eat at Black's. Yum, it's worth a roadtrip.

[Brian C.]

It seems like the only thing you need might be to have Michael Palin in the back seat with a film crew! Great pics....looks like you're having a great time. The car is very nice looking too. The wheels are sweet!!

Do you take requests?? I'm thinking of a photo in front of the Grand Canyon maybe.......or how about on the strip in Vegas?? Isn't there a "World's Largest Ball of Rubber Bands" or something along the way?

And if you're in Tuscon, AZ and need a mechanic, there's this guy named Bill R......................


Enjoy the car and the trip!!

Brian C.

[Gayle]

It seems like the only thing you need might be to have Michael Palin in the back seat with a film crew! Great pics....looks like you're having a great time. The car is very nice looking too. The wheels are sweet!!

Do you take requests?? I'm thinking of a photo in front of the Grand Canyon maybe.......or how about on the strip in Vegas?? Isn't there a "World's Largest Ball of Rubber Bands" or something along the way?

And if you're in Tuscon, AZ and need a mechanic, there's this guy named Bill R......................


Enjoy the car and the trip!!

Brian C.

We have a stop planned in Tuscon and I may need a mechanic by then. If it isn't breaking, it isn't a BMW right?

[Gayle]

# 1 is at the Alamo

# 2 is a bridge over Riverwalk. The 535 is a great car but she doesn't do stairs, so couldn't get her down to the river. Check the star of Texas in the bridge.

#3 Pecos--home of hanging judge Roy Bean. Just outside of town, hubby earned his Indian name "He Who Whizes with Grasshoppers"

[Gayle]

Miles melt away on back roads in areas of sparse population with no police. The M30 purrs.

#1 in Carlsbad Cavern Park

#2 This picture needed a tripod, but check out the black streams over the roof and windshield. These are some of the 500,000 bats that fly out of the cavern at dusk in mass. A "bat out of hell" is really not that fast.

#3 Roswell New Mexico. The best thing about the alien museum is seeing the pictures of area 51. Has a 6 mile long runway.

[uscharalph]

Keep 'em coming.

[Gayle]

The temp in Arizona, while the highest, was not the most miserable. San Antonio beat out Washington DC, New Oreleans, and Arizonia on the subjective discomfort scale. Was really glad the cooling system problem didn't prevent us from using the air on the open road.

[Brian C.]

You're almost home, huh? How about Hoover Dam? You gonna do a photo there? When you're home, you'll need to compile a "Bimmer Across America" photo show. Very nice pics!

Brian C.