Woodsmen’s Museum Run a Success - for most!

photos from David S.
photos from Heather 

     The Miramichi Tour started with 7 cars, but ended up with 5, 1 headed home with a mechanical issue, one followed for backup.  Nothing daunted, the others headed toward Minto. It was a beautiful tops down day, not too hot, not too cold! En route the 5 visited the interment camp on rte 10, for some pictures and then to Tim's in Minto.
     After the appropriate things happened, we headed towards Doaktown, through Hardwood Ridge, Briggs Corner and Gaspereau Forks.
      We had a small informal challenge in the form of a 'Digital Scavenger Hunt' where there was a list of things to photograph en route, such as  an Orange Roof, a  rusty Chevy and a White Pine forest, plus about 15 or so other things and we had fun with that!  We encountered a large mama moose with a calf not too far from Doaktown, but I never got a picture!  In Doaktown we stopped for a picnic lunch in a park, just on the Fredericton side of Doaktown. There we had a great lunch, some fun discussion and we headed to Boiestown to the Woodsman's Museum. It is interesting to see how our forefathers did things, and to see some early technology! ( like make and break gas engines).
     From the Museum we headed towards Fredericton, each on our own way. It was a delightful day, and thanks for all who attended!
- Vic and Heather

Additional note from David N:
    Not too far into the run Alex's TR6 decided to misbehave--as in stop running! It was decided for him to limp back to Nackawic accompanied by David N. in Carolyn's TR6 and others would continue on the run. As Enzo Ferarri would say, "Always electrical" referring to what goes wrong with cars. It was discovered by the time we reached the Ring Road that the problem was not going to go away. Gary and I, who have had frustrating times with our TR6s in the past have shared the common culprit. There still are many "new" distributor rotors (or buttons) out there that are defective. Alex had installed a new one to insure a trouble-free run. So much for good intentions. Once the old rotor was installed, the engine sprang to life and purred the rest of the way home. By the time we got to Keswick Ridge it was clear that Alex was not going to have any further problems. His phone call from home confirmed that.
     I was tempted to go out and about and track down some fake photos for the contest that you will hear about later. i decided not to even though there was some beautiful fresh road-kill that could easily have won a prize.
- David