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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 26 2016, 10:18 PM (172 Views) | |
| Lefturns75 | Aug 26 2016, 10:18 PM Post #1 |
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All you SNRA racers have heard me speak of E.R. Bechtolsheim, our big buck Dairy Sponsor here at GHR. Yes, THIS guy.![]() After getting the GHR cars ready, hiring a new driver and crew chief, I was called into E.R.'s office right at the start of the 2016 season. He asked me to do him a favor and be an ambassador of Bechtolsheim Industries and meet with some Corporate officials and accept a business deal for him outside the U.S. He said it would only take a week and I might like a short vacation, all expenses paid. I had visions of the Bahama Islands or maybe Hawaii and accepted without asking "Where"? The very next day I am hurried on a plane with a stack of sealed papers and told to only open them after I take off. He was laughing and smiling when i left. While on the plane I look at the sealed instructions and find I am to meet with a man named Lars Ivar Tretteteig at a company named Synnove Finden AS. It is a Dairy Company in Norway! OK, I'm going to Norway, I can deal with that I guess. Wrong! I went to an Island midway between continental Norway and the North Pole called Svalbard. I was booked in the Spitzbergen Hotel in a town called Longyearbyen. Mr. Tretteteig was out of the country, there were countless delays and what should have taken a week ended up taking almost two months. Should you ever for some reason choose to travel to this remote place, plan on going on a diet. The food is pork or a lamb dish that has been soaked in a brine for ever and tastes like it is 1000 years old, root veggies, cabbage and potatoes cooked in every way known to man. I did learn to like Kjottkaker, which is meat balls, gravy and potatoes. In my time there it only got to 38 degrees twice, I learned to use snow shoes and made a couple of friends. ![]() Well, I am back in Podunkville. Finally. I can't believe what I put up with for a sponsor. |
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Ordinarily I am insane, but I do have lucid moments where I am merely stupid. I never TRY to hit another car. But when I do I make sure its a Prius. | |
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| Lefturns75 | Aug 26 2016, 10:46 PM Post #2 |
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You know, to make this story complete, I should add that the return trip home was no pic nic. I had to change planes in Iceland, Greenland, Quebec and Chicago. Chicago was the only good part. I poked down three Chicago Style Hotdogs in just a few minutes while in the Rotunda. First normal food I had tasted in a couple of months. From there it was on to St Louis where I was to connect with Podunkville Regional Airline. It was canceled. Podunkville Regional only has one plane, a DC-3. Their knot-headed mechanic Mort Quigley was doing service on one of the engines and lost some of the parts. It is down until Mort finds them or someone can figure out how to find some 70 year old Wright Cyclone parts. I was driven by van to a town called St. Clair, just outside St Louis and met the Podunkville Charter Service. That service is run by Putney Bennett and he flies a Curtiss JN-4, or "Jenny" to you aircraft types. It took two fuel stops to get back to Podunkville and as he landed he knocked over Reed Hadley's TV antenna and ripped the fabric on the bottom of the plane. All my luggage is now scattered across Clem Whitmer;s pasture where he keeps "Terminator" his prize bull. I think I will forget about the luggage, but I will somehow get even with good ol E,R.!!! |
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Ordinarily I am insane, but I do have lucid moments where I am merely stupid. I never TRY to hit another car. But when I do I make sure its a Prius. | |
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| dirttrackdave | Aug 27 2016, 10:21 AM Post #3 |
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Oh Lefty, glad you're ok! He looks lot like an infamous Nazi war criminal of Stalag 13. very nasty fellow.thought he was hiding in small country of Whonoseswhere. As a retired chef,food sounds interesting,specially Meatball,gravy and potatoes. Please be care full, keep sharp eye on him! |
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| Lefturns75 | Aug 27 2016, 11:04 AM Post #4 |
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Dirttrack Dave, the only thing interesting about the food in Longyearbyen was breakfast. Great coffee, platters of sliced lunch meats, smoked salmon, shrimp, crab, smoked eel and of all things, Caviar! Those guys make Huge sandwiches but with only one slice of bread, not two like we do. The rest of the time if you don't mind poking down reindeer meat, Pork, Lamb, carrots and other root veggies, I guess you could make it. Upon my return, E.R. invited me to dinner. The menu was Potato soup, boiled potatoes, potato pancakes, sauerkraut and sauerbraten. Bon Appetit! |
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Ordinarily I am insane, but I do have lucid moments where I am merely stupid. I never TRY to hit another car. But when I do I make sure its a Prius. | |
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| IAracefan | Aug 28 2016, 09:52 AM Post #5 |
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LOL, those polar bears look like they want to make a snack out of Lefty! Hope you got to see the northern lights while you were there, I'd go just for that. |
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