Blue Knob ATV Run

I went to bed last night around 01:30 hours and woek up at 05:30 hours when my alarm went off. I got out of bed and changed into street clothes. I then grabbed my digital camera and then packed my lunch and dinner for the day and then grabbed a coffee cake for breakfast. I left he house around 05:45 hours and headed up to the fire house. I got there and parked on the right side of the old fire house and waited for Troy to show up. When he was not there by 06:00 hours, I waited 2 minutes and then called his cell phone like he told me to the night before to make sure he was up. I called and he said he was soon going to be leaving his aunt's house on Powell's Valley Road. I then ate my breakfast while I waited for him to get there. He showed up around 06:20 hours and he pulled up to the trailer. I put my lunch box in his truck and then he asked me if I was going to pull the Engine out and then the four wheeler and I said I would do that. While I did that, he hooked the trailer up to his truck and then he moved over to in front of the fire house. I then loaded the four wheeler up and we secured it and he moved out of the way and I backed the Engine in and closed the bay door and off we went around 06:35 hours. We had to stop at Troy's house to pick up some more tickets in case we needed them. We then stopped at his Aunt's house so he could get the directions and then we stopped at Shell so he could fuel his truck up for the 150 mile ride up. We then went through the drive-thru at McDonald's on Front Street and then started on our long trip up to Blue Knob. We took the turn pike up for most o the way. We got up there around 09:30 hours and when we went into the field to park, the sight we saw just blew our minds away. There were vehicles parked for as far as the eye could see. We were parked in the third row of vehicles and Troy took the four wheeler off the trailer and I put my lunch box and the tickets and money in the front compartment and asked him if he needed any help and he said no as he was just going to unhook the trailer and unload his four wheeler. I told him that I was going to head up to the fire house and try and find Bruce. So I headed up to the fire house on the four wheeler and found Bruce standing out front. I talked to him and told him to put us where he thought would be the best place and I also asked them if we could borrow a table and two chairs for the day and he said not a problem. I then met Troy and got the signs from him and then threaded my way into where Bruce had set the table up for us and parked the four wheeler and set up shop. Once Troy regiestered he parked his four wheeler and came up and stood by the table until the huge line of people on four wheelers and dirt bikes died down and then he headed out to run the trail. Once everyone cleared out, Bruce's father, Rex took me in his truck up to checkpoint 1 to show me the whole operation that they have set up along the trail every 10 miles. I want to tell you it was a sight to see, with all those people stopped there and quite a few inline to get food and drinks. We then headed back to the fire house. Troy got back around 14:00 hours. We sold a total of 2 Daily Number tickets and 27 four wheeler tickets. We broke down a little after 17:00 hours. The last count I heard was at least 550 vehicles and over 100 children registered and 930 adults regeistered for the run. We left and got back on the turn pike until we got off at the Carlisle exit. We stopped at Arby's and ate dinner and then Troy fueled his truck up again and we headed on home. Once back at the station I took the four wheeler off the trailer and Troy put the trailer away and then I hosed the four wheeler down and then put it away and headed up to the hall to talk with Robin and Troy. We all left around 22:00 hours and headed on home. Once at home I took a shower and am soon going to bed as I am tired.