So, you’ve heard about all the exciting events that the Carlisle staff provided during All-Truck Nationals this year. Here’s how I remember the show going....

We arrived Saturday morning in Pudge’s truck, and got a pretty good spot on the hill by the road. Soon, Mike Dubie and Matt Robertson were parked with us, and the tent had been put up.

I had brought to the show a bottle of Dr. McGillicuddy’s peppermint schnapps and a bottle of chocolate syrup....and anyone who has been around me with that combination knows that no good - or work - is going to come out of it!

So I started my day off, and all was well. Somewhere along the line, time flew by, and it was lunchtime already. So we sat down to eat with the Rich, Bobby & Ashley, Huppie, Nat, and Duval & Saree. This was the first weekend that the guys had met Duval’s new girlfriend, and they had a few questions for her - her thoughts on threesomes, same sex kisses, Duval as a boyfriend...you know - the usual.

So then it was afternoon already, and I continued my pilgrimage to carry around my two bottles and share with anyone that was (or wasn’t) interested in drinking with me. Here is where I apologize for pouring liquor and chocolate syrup in anyone’s mouth that really didn’t want to take a shot. But at some points, it’s just better to take the shot than to try to say no to me. I recall that Dougie Fresh learned this the hard way, and ended up taking the shot anyways!

So, it was the trips back and forth between Pudge’s truck up on the hill, and the RA trucks that were over by the e-bay building that got me my exercise for the day. And, from what I understand, I apparently wasn’t taking the direct straight route, even along paved roads. My route was more of a meandering sway from the left side of the road to the right side back to the left...well, you get the point.

And, speaking of Pudge - he’s the guy that I saw in the beginning of the day, who then washed his hands of me for the day. He picked me up off of the ground at the end of the day where I had passed out under the tent and drove me home, with specific instructions that if I was going to be sick (which I was) to give him plenty of warning to pull over (which I did).

So, if you want to know how All-Truck Nationals was this past year, I’ll tell you that it was much like my recollection of Low Rollers 2004. And those were my two favorite shows in the past two years!