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Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:36 am**

Ladies and Gentlemen start your engines! This (virtual) tour won't be canceled, and it starts today!

As you have probably guessed, living 40 miles from downtown Chicago, I am starting to go a little bonkers.

I am inspired by the camping in a Model T thread, and the beautiful scenery photos posted there, such as this one:

And so I propose some "arm chair" travel. Most of you have photos of past trips in your Model T, so why don't you post them here, and every day we can have a pleasant distraction. I am not a "rule" guy, but I do have a suggestion: how about you can post as many photos as you want, but only post one photo a day. That way we will have more variety, and fresh "travel" experiences every day we are on "lock down".

So, let's "hit the road"!

(On the road to Pickford, MI; 2019 Michigan Jamboree of T's.)

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:53 am**

Ok I will play. Here is one of many from a tour in Colorado. This photo was taken by my wife (looking back) as we headed up a pass.

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:59 pm**

Our run through the back woods in Michigan a couple years ago.

Posted: **Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:03 pm**

Today I drove through Wallace in my 26 coupe.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 10:40 am**

Took Clarabelle, my '13 Touring on the MTFCI annual tour in 2016 to the Finger Lakes in New York State. Great time. Beautiful
scenery everywhere. Probly some of the best touring country this side of the Mississippi. But then, I haven't been to that many areas, so who knows!
Dang it! Sorry it went sideways folks!! You know the drill!!

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:30 am**

Here's a photo of Nick and Thelma's Wallace Garage from a Covered Bridge Tour a few years ago. That's OSITA, our '22 touring to the left.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:03 pm**

Suggestion: It seems to be photos in a vertical format that show up sideways here. Before you post a vertical shot, try this. Open the photo. Click on Tools. Rotate 90º Left or Right (doesn't matter which) then back to vertical. Post. It works for me. Your computer may vary.

Dessert while Model T camping in Concordia, May 26, 2018.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:39 pm**

I have had trouble myself, getting my photos to post correctly, so I will practice Jelf's technique.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:44 pm**

Waiting for the train to cross a few years ago !

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:47 pm**

I think I got the photo to post correctly!

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:52 pm**

Thanks for trying Wayne!! I always was weird!! Only goes my pics are too!!

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:59 pm**

Gil Fitzhugh's 1914 on Prince Edward Island, 2019.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:49 pm**

Tour my wife & I hosted in 2018.

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:38 pm**

Posted: **Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:23 pm**

3 Aussie T's on tour last month for the Chapters 40th anniversary.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:58 am**

My shot for the day is from the Flint Hills of Chase County.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:31 am**

Back in 2012 the HCCA National Convention Chris Paulsen, myself and I believe 11 others went up and down Pikes Peak. I had my 1912 Touring Car, and he had his 1910 Touring car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPRyiu2dhMc

its about 7 minutes long. Enjoy

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:32 am**

Harvest time in Indiana

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:51 am**

Taking our first drive in the '15 on our property

Taking the '19 for a drive into Clark's Fork Canyon on a calm day (only 30MPH winds). Years ago, wind out of the canyon rolled up the asphalt like a shade on a window.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:04 am**

This was taken during a tour of Death Valley in February this year.

: Abandoned Bank in Ryolite

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:22 am**

Just driving our county roads.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:28 am**

John, that was all low pedal, wasn't it?

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:35 am**

Just driving our county roads.

Looks like they're pulling a tanker.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 11:56 am**

On the rim of the Snake River Canyon.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:08 pm**

Responding to Steve, Most of the going down was high range of my Ruckstell and low pedal. I hardly used the rocky mountain brakes on the way down and I just let the engine do most of the work. The brakes were only for the hair pin turns. I timed those so no one was coming the opposite direction so I could take advantage of the oncoming lane of traffic. Kept the braking to a minimum.

Going up was a different story, I split shift the Ruckstell like a 4 speed to keep the RPM manageable. It took about 2 1/2 hours to get up and about 45 minutes to get down.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 12:12 pm**

Red Dirt Tour, Prince Edward Island, 2019

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:11 pm**

This post is in reply to RajoRacer’s post “sitting, waiting on the train to go by”.
Down here in Tennessee, we don’t wait on the trains to go by- WE GO UNDER THEM!!

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:32 pm**

On our way to Yellowstone.

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:50 pm**

Good "comeback" Bill !

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:59 pm**

Steve- that's my favorite tunnel. It's hard to find, but worth the hunt. Bill

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 10:25 am**

My scenery today is Lincoln's tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield IL.

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:08 pm**

Ship Wreck Museum, 2019 Michigan Jamboree of T's:

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 12:43 pm**

This morning, I took a tour around town and stopped by the old church buildings here in Waynetown.

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 1:53 pm**

This was last September when I drove the original 1926 alignment of route 66 from St Louis to Cuba Mo for the Cuba Lions car show. It is parked at the door of my stone cabin for the night at the Wagon Wheel Motel. It is said to be the oldest continuously operated motel on route 66. Well worth a visit, and you can get great bbq right next door!

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:25 pm**

Some fun at OCF last fall.

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 3:27 pm**

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:26 pm**

Thank you, Wayne. I tried Steve's method of rotating left, right and even upside down! No go it still came out the same! I'm doing it from my android, next time I will use my pc.

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 4:59 pm**

This is one of my favorite from 2019, in Montana where in one day we climbed to over 9000 feet and I did 235 miles in a single day

: Tony & 14 touring at 9000 feet

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 5:04 pm**

Model Ts and Bison herd (look closely) at Fleming Park, Kansas City

Posted: **Mon Apr 06, 2020 9:08 pm**

TonyB,

Here is mine from 2018 at a similar altitude, cold day however.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:32 am**

My scenery for today is 360th Road in Greenwood County, KS.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:42 am**

On the way home from Montana, I stopped in Yellowstone NP for a couple of days. The afternoon traffic was awful so most of the running was before 11am. This was taken along the Yellowstone River.

: Along the Yellowstone River

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:04 pm**

Returning home form one of our club tours, Oregon City Oregon. Building is still in use even though it looks abandoned.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:03 pm**

A trip to Lambeau Field home of the Packers.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 1:03 pm**

Osprey nest, Prince Edward Island

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 4:56 pm**

Our ancestors were hardy folk!

Covered Bridge Tour 2019 - I don't know if a top would have made much difference. The good thing? The electrical system didn't short out

Covered Bridge Tour 2019 - 90° highs in Early October? Who'd have guessed? Hey, at least the T didn't overheat. My Bergs radiator was a good investment.

Michigan Jamboree 2019 - that's Lake Superior in the background

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:26 pm**

Descending Pikes Peak.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 5:31 pm**

At the steam show

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:12 pm**

Two years ago, a quick pause at the village Railroad Station.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:16 pm**

Ok, so this one is of a tour we did in the mountains of the Southwest here in Colorado sometime around 2000. That is my old C-cab in front. Sometimes I wish that I still had that truck. Oh well......

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:09 am**

An afternoon with like-minded friends last August.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2020 2:15 am**

There are two rather obvious clues that this restored one room school house is in Canada, and not in the USA.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:06 am**

This was during the California Dreamin’ tour in May last year. The location is Jalama beach which is the quintessential California beach, complete with a burger bar.

: Jalama beach - May 2019

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:24 am**

Today's scene is old 66 north of Phillipsburg, MO.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:34 am**

I remember reading about the Mackinac Bridge in "My Weekly Reader" when I was in first grade. It is always special for me when I see it in real life.

2019 Michigan Jamboree of T's.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:43 am**

I couldn’t figure out the TWO reason why Wayne’s picture was in Canada. The flag was a giveaway but where was the second ? Then I enlarged the picture and sure enough there was Good Queen Victoria.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:59 pm**

Ready to cross the Mackinac Bridge on a trip around the lake in June of 2014 from the UP.
(Note the period correct flags)

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:08 pm**

Dan...I love the UP, Mackinac bridge and the island and St. Ignace. Never had a T there, but would be a thrill crossing the bridge in one. Meanwhile, heres a tour pic from last year in a bit more sedate fall setting!

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:48 pm**

I find that after a rotate the picture one way, then the other way, if I then save the file under a new name, I can then post the "new name" photo, and it will post correctly.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:56 pm**

Thanks Wayne!! I will try to remember to do that on the next submission!!!
Then watch, it'll end up sideways differently as it would otherwise post "normal"!! Always my luck!
But I will preview it first and go from there.

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2020 2:43 pm**

My trip picture for today shows the Pike County courthouse in Pittsfield, IL.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:36 am**

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1915 Touring at the Langely covered Bridge in Centerville Mich

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 9:54 am**

Here's mine for today. Coupla years ago got brave, and it was getting toward the end of the season, so I decided to take
my now former '20 Runabout for a spin to the local big box hardware store, down a usual busy road. No problem! Everyone
loved seeing the car, gave me plenty of space.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:21 am**

My view for today is the new brick main street in Albion, MI, September 10, 2018. It was so new some of it wasn't open yet.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 10:38 am**

Here I am practicing my backseat driving skills in the backseat of Gil Fitzhugh's 1914 touring during 2019's Red Dirt Tour held on Prince Edward Island, Canada. We were told that there were no gravel quarries on Prince Edward Island, so all paving material has to be brought in from the main land. Hence many of the more rural roads are not even gravel, just red dirt. In mid July the roads were hard packed clay, so fortunately nobody had to reenact Edsel Ford's famous trip of 1915.

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Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:40 am**

: Late afternoon in the California Desert near Goffs, CA. October 2015

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:40 pm**

For those unfamiliar with Goffs, that's where old 66 crossed the main Santa Fe line.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:53 pm**

Leaving the mill with horse feed. Cant get it upright. Hope the brakes hold.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:14 pm**

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:31 pm**

Thanks Wayne, I rotated every way and still didnt work. PIXIES!

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:41 pm**

This was on a 2018 local tour into the Borrego Desert. A local artist was commissioned to build a series of early animal statues, totaling over over twenty scattered over several miles at the side of desert roads.

: Tony in Borrego Desert

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:58 pm**

Dallas, next time after rotating both ways, try saving the photo with a new name. Then post the "New name" photo and see if that works for you. (Worked for me).

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:30 pm**

Somewhere in the Rocky Mountains

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:54 am**

This was taken in 2000. Our club toured the mining town and nearby hills of Cripple Creek Colorado. T's as far as the eye could see. My red pickup near the front.

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:13 am**

Roadside stop on the Covered Bridge Tour.

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Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:26 am**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHle4_5Uj9k

may have posted this in the past.

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:36 am**

Hey, life on the farm has to continue through all the crazy things going on. Home from the feed mill with a load of feed. Something happened today that was a 1st for me. A couple Amish kids in an open buggy was taking a video of me on their phone as I passed by them !!! Times are a changin but the T's keep going

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2020 6:14 pm**

Camping on Grand Manan Island in Canada after
the 2019 National Tour on Prince Edward Island.

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2020 8:12 pm**

I believe this was our last club tour the end of Oct. '19. Had another breakfast with several other guys who couldn't finish the morning with a nice little fall tour, at this neat little ramshackle bar called Havanna Tavern. We always have a blast there.
The floor in the area we eat literally has a 26" slope from one end to the other. It's crazy fun there. So I stopped the gang on this
bridge for a little photo op. The fall color was actually better downstream, sadly, and real nice along our travels. Great time.

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:59 pm**

Corn fields by the road to Prairie DuChien.

Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:16 am**

2019 Red Dirt Tour, Prince Edward Island

Happy Easter Everyone!

I am enjoying all of your travels!

Generally Easter for me involves getting together with my family, particularly with my 94 year old mother. So this Easter will be unusual for me, as I imagine it will be for everyone else.

Stay Safe!

Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:09 am**

That's a pretty little church Wayne!
Here's three of us on an early spring tour coupla years ago, on South Bass Island, Ohio, a.k.a. "Put-In-Bay". PIB is actually just the
little village on the island. Everyone calls the island Put In Bay instead. Some people don't even know the correct
name of the island! Was a great day for us. My '13, Tom Sloma's '23, Dick Suhr's '17 bringing up the rear.

Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:26 am**

Another church, this one in Rhineland, MO.

Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2020 11:40 am**

Like minded friends driving the back woods of Michigan. The T can Hang with the $$ cars.

Posted: **Sun Apr 12, 2020 3:06 pm**

On today's drive a stopped at the old Wallace covered bridge. I believe that the funding is now in place for this bridge to be a future historical preservation project.

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:01 am**

It is 10 AM somewhere, time to stop what your doing for some coffee and donuts.

Coffee & donut break, Pickford, MI.; 2019 Michigan Jamboree of T's.

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:16 am**

My tour stop today is on State Highway 13 in northeast Iowa.

Posted: **Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:32 pm**

A stop at the Hickory Corners Gas Station on a solo trip to northern Wisconsin.

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2020 9:25 am**

In these times, it is great to find someone who delivers:

And the prices can't be beat!

2019 Michigan Jamboree of T's

Posted: **Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:42 am**

Today I'm at the Whitley County courthouse in Columbia City, IN.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:30 am**

Today's stop is only about 65 miles from home. Shorty and I are waiting for a ride home. Our camping trip was nipped in the bud by a broken low drum.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2020 12:00 pm**

Logan Canyon, UT. We're giving the traffic a rest.

Beautiful scenery and warm sun.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:59 pm**

Headed to one of our many breakfasts at the "world famous" Havanna Tavern...the one with the floor that slopes
about 26" from one end to the other. No kidding!! We have a great time there, usually just the guys. Somehow sitting at a long
set of tables is a lot of fun that way, you can see everyone easier that way!
Well Wayne...I TRIED rotating it first, copying, then submitting. This is what I got! Sorry

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:46 pm**

Picking up plumbing supplies last summer.

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:53 pm**

Here ya go Tim wouldn't want Tom to slide out of his truck. Jim

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Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2020 4:14 pm**

This photo was on a peak of about 8000 feet near Big Bear in Southern California late last year. The tour was only three days but we had a great time even though one member received a traffic ticket on the way home.

: Big Bear in 2019

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:19 am**

Tiffany Stone Bridge. This is the oldest stone arch bridge in the state of Wisconsin. It was built in 1869 and crosses the Turtle Creek in rural Rock County, in the town of Turtle. The bridge is still used by the Union Pacific Rail Road.

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:23 am**

Another stone arch bridge. The Fox Bridge over Grouse Creek was built in 1911 and destroyed by a flood in 2016.

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2020 10:52 am**

Beartooth Pass. "10,947 feet (3,337 m) above sea level. It has been called "the most beautiful drive in America," by late CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt. Because of heavy snowfall at the top, the pass is usually open each year only from mid May through mid October, weather conditions permitting." Only light snow on the way down. (August)

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:59 am**

That beartooth was the most painfull drive in America for me Rich. I took the wife over the pass on the Harley in 2004. My side still hurts where she was hanging on!

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