Flying out Thursday night and home again on Sunday. Hope to meet other members also.

excellent idea on the name tags!

As far as I know the wife and I will be there:whoo:

Garlic Mom and I will be there. I have a name tag with my name (Peter Bloom) and another with my handle which I try to remember to wear.

Garlic Mom, Daron and I will be overseeing the digging area most of the time. I'll probably be around there or in the ACMOC tent most of the time.

Here's a picture showing Garlic Mom's and my best sides, for those of you who don't know what we look like:



Here's a another picture of Garlic Mom.



This is the most common view I have when she helps me move tractors around, the back of her head, which I get a close up view of as the track goes up and over my body.

Here's Garlic Mom on her ODS6 and Miller Rotary Scraper doing a little trimming.



And here's a little better picture of me.



See you at the show. We'll be arriving Wednesday around mid-day. We'll have the 1983 yellow Peterbilt with the blue Cozad trailer. There is a parade to kick off the fair on Wednesday afternoon at 5:00 pm. Anyone interested can ride in the parade on the truck with us. Call us up at (661) 343-3691 or send an email to pbloom (at) ymail (dot) com. If anyone is bringing a truck and trailer with tractors and would like to go in the parade, contact me and we can see if we can work you in. I believe the official cutoff for parade entries was August 1st, but we can usually work something out for late comers.

Pete.

Name tags were suggested at the "Woodland" meet several years ago. It bombed, the only two tags I saw were my own and "Josh".
I will not be there this time.

Jan:

I just booked my flight. I get in Wed night/Thurs about midnight. Will see you Thursday.

Tom

My family and I will be coming as well, I look forward to speaking to all of you.

Just some information on some other things to do while you are "in town":

All times are from the show site:
Smith Park Rexburg ID Has a Best steamer on display 2.5 hrs north
Golden Spike Monument- 25 miles away west www.nps.gov/gosp/index.htm
Yellow Stone National Park- 4 hrs away north
Jackson Hole WY - 4 hrs away north
Dinosaur National Monument - 4 hrs away east www.utah.com/nationalsites/dinosaur.htm
Bonneville Salt Flats- 3 hrs away west
Timpanogos Cave National Monument - 1.5 hrs south
Historic Union Station 30 min south
Ogden Utah 30 min. south
American West Heritage center 30 min. east www.awhc.org/
more historic sites in utah: www.utah.com/culture/historic_sites.htm

If anyone knows of some other Caterpillar/Best or Holt dispalys in the region please let me know.