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All words in Pomona spelled correctly from now on.... thanks for your patience...Our little group is almost to Oklahoma...Our travels today have met with a less than perfect pavement on I-40 West...Will enter into Noble in the morning...or sometime tomorrow. Joe Tysinger

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Not much to write about. We arrived in Noble this afternoon. 1,407 miles from our house and only missed one turn going to the track. Luckily a nice man let us circle through his front yard to turn around. Only thing that really concerned us was we had to pass by our very first storm shelter. Not a really good feeling. We only dodge hurricanes. Wallace and Gary are doing the parking and the track really did a nice job of grooming the pits. Now we are just hoping the rain holds off!! The Nowickis are here and Bobby Warren is about 40 miles away and will be here in the morning. Hopefully tomorrow we'll have more interesting news. Joe

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Hello from Noble

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Hello Joe,hope you had a nice ride out west,things are nice and warm here back home,record temps next week :). Looking forward to some good reporting, but you may need Alice do that spell check thing for you ;). Good luck, may you be 000 and dead on ever run :D. Keep us informed,Termite.

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Now with rain for two days.....Hopefully we race today sometime??

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Lots and lots of rumors going around for this event..I say pray for sunshine and a little wind to dry out all of this mud...

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Out walking around at Noble track...Everyone knows by now that Super Stock and Stock will not run until Monday..Therefore, we'll be driving at a faster pace to Vegas.. But, as Dan Fletcher just said..."no big deal."

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Today's two pictures... Enjoy, because tomorrow we finally get to race!!!

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Joe sorry we didn't make the swing with you and your merry band of racers . go rounds , have fun etc and keep posting jim

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Way to go Joe,nice driving job. Guess this makes the trip worth it . Be safe in your travels next few days,and 000 and dead on to ya AGAIN.:) Keep up the reports.;)

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Nice Job Joe. Good start for the western swing.

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Joe and Alice you two deserve the Wally today. What a great way to start the trip out west. Love watching you climb up in division and world points . Congrats. Mark and Elaine.

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Congratulations to" Pamona" Joe and Alice! Great way to start your trip. Have a safe one - wish we were there! Buck and Lisa

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Great Job!
Congrats to Joe and Alice.... two great people.

the Sheehans

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Dear readers, remember how bad the rain has been and the pictures were kinda muddy......Well, we just love Noble, Oklahoma now....The first picture is our Super Stock winner, Joe Tysinger, stepping from his car and then Joe and Mrs. Mama's Mink, and finally today's winner with a past world champion.. Bobby Warren..We are having to travel hard now, but we are on our way to Vegas...

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Congradulations from the photographer in Charlotte. Wish I could have been there to snap some today. You deserve this as you are one of the nicest guys around. Thanks for talking with me in Charlotte and look forward to seeing you in the Spring.

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We left Noble on Mon. about 6:00 pm ( a very short celebration) and traveled until about midnight and then traveled a VERY long day yesterday.. No pictures...as I had to rest!!! Pulled into the Vegas track this morning about 8:30 am (Vegas time) and we are #159 and should be in the track very shortly now.. These pictures were riding the last 100 miles or so in this morning and over the Hoover Dam..What breathtaking views...

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We've towed east-west-north and south and our country is indeed America the Beautiful, thanks for taking us along....quite a view out of the windshield....no bugs?

Our pal Larry Schmidt (SS '55 Chevy) is slogging through snow and ice western Wyoming and northern Utah, plus a wonderful 50-65 MPH headwind

we're parked until spring it's going to be a long winter

Have a great race!

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just some neighbors of ours here in Vegas...The weather is beautiful..Tomorrow is the starting day for us all.. Stay tuned...It's just wonderful here...Did I mention the pavement here in our neighborhood?

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Nice Job Joe, wish Ralph and I could of talked Rich into going out, we would of been there.
Good luck to everybody

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Congratulations Joe, sorry it took me so long, this is my first post on class racer, so look out... Now I am following you guys in Vegas and hope the results are the same, I'm cheering you all the way. Alice thanks for all the pictures. Have a great time, and good luck.. Please say Hi to all our West Coast friends, especially Bob (choc. chips) Earlywine, hopefully he will share his cookies. DeDe and Dave

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Same here Joe - sorry for the late response - Big Congrats on your win - good luck with the rest of the trip!!!.... I'm hoping to be able to do the same one day soon.

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What a lovely day here in Las Vegas..We had two rounds of qualifying and then we ran class..Made pictures of a few cars as we made it into the lanes... Hope you enjoy them all. Had a nice visit today from Gary Hettler..I'll try and send more pictures later today.. What time is it right now?

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Joe,
Congrads on the class win, now go get another Eliminator Wally. Good luck.
Butch

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It was NHRA night on freemont street in old Las Vegas last night Joe Alice Tysinger, Allen and Marilyn Wade their brother and sister in law Les and Linda , Bobby and Carolyn Howald and Mark and Elaine Nowicki shared in on the fun. We sure did celebrate with good food good drink and lots of laughs.
The light show was great to watch. Along with the zip liners going overhead. The Halloween theme was present everywhere. At least we thought that was the theme not just regular atire.
Wish you were all here to share the fun.
Day off for super stock unless you were invited to the barn. We were lucky and none of us were invited.
stock warming up for first round busy day for them.

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Joe, any Div 4 guys that didn't know who you were when you arrived certainly knew about you when you left Noble! Great job!

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Hi from Vegas, again...Had more pictures from yesterday's running, and just getting them posted...Just gorgeous weather here still. Had dinner in actual Vegas last night and truly fun..Halloween is definitely in the "air" here...Racing begins tomorrow...

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Joe and Alice good luck and have plenty of FUN on the trip. With all the reports on the trip you are making Patsy and myself homesick for "the road"

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Eliminations here in Vegas this Sat. morning..Winds a major factor in second round and temps started dropping and many of us broke out then....Mark Nowicki and Joe Tysinger.. In our camp Bobby Warren is still in....Yeah for the Carolina turf...Super stock stock runs again early evening here..

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Just a few more pictures from eliminations this morning....And, as you can see, defeat comes hard to Joe

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Hi folks and Happy Halloween from Las Vegas...Third round was exciting for Super Stock this morning...A few pictures here of some of the winners..For the six of us in our camp, the biggest "dial in" was deciding if we should dial down to just eggs at the restaurant or "dial up" for the omelette. Bobby, Carolyn, Mark, Elaine, Joe and Alice at the Blueberry Hill restaurant was our breakfast site.. Might I add that we have been there so many times that waitresses know us by name and give us a hug.. This CANNOT be good!!! Waiting for Super Stock round four before we go into Vegas and celebrate Halloween.

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Have fun, Vegas on Halloween is a sigh to behold!

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Hi folks...no racing today but all of us, Mark and Elaine, Bobby and Carolyn, Bobby Warren and Joe and Alice, went to Hoover Dam this afternoon.. WOW and WOW...Just awesome..Didn't even miss drag racing on one of our day's off.. Weather still just fabulous...We are all still living here on the "concrete" here at the Vegas Strip. Had a realy fun day..

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Every time I see the Hoover Dam it amazes me that it was built with the vehicles and equipment available in the late 1920's & 1930's !!
Looks like the lake is way down...... :-(

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It makes you appreciate life more when you read the placque with all the names of the people who died building it.

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Attachment 5895Sorry we haven't posted in a couple of days but we have really been busy.. Larry and Patsy, I know now how much fun you had on your trip. Tom, we just need you along for the pictures..Jack, even in Vegas I don't believe you would bring rain.. Seriously, on Tuesday our group was fortunate enough to get a close and personal tour of the Air Force Thunderbirds at Nellis Air Force Base. A good friend of mine, Jon Richardson, SS/AS, has a son who is a member of the team.. Derric Richardson is a real credit to the young men and women who serve our country and make it possible for all of us to not only enjoy our passion for racing, but also the freedom we enjoy. Thanks Derric, you are a credit to your family and the military. We were honored to meet two of the pilots and go behind the scenes, so to speak, and thoroughly enjoyed the day.. Wednesday, a trip to Red Rock Canyon and Bonnie Springs (old western town)v was the order of the day.. Alan Wade and Mark Nowicki stayed to run the combo race. Alan made it to the semi's , so naturally we used the evening to celebrate. Alice, myself, Bobby Warren and Willie Evans made the trip to the desert. One of the pictures you see is Bobby, Willie and Joe disecting the motor on this very old fire truck. Today has been pretty much relaxing and teching in for the race to start tomorrow. Hope everyone, at some time, gets to make this trip. Will post again soon.. Our daughter and her husband just flew into Vegas, so another night on the town... Joe and Alice

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Just a couple more pictures to have you share with our Thunderbird tour..Just so awesome we can't describe it This second picture is actually a painting.. of the two planes...Joe and Alice

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Hi folks, sorry it is very late tonight as I post our day. As you can see, the excitement climbs ?!?!? ..Here is our Friday at 7:03 pm in Vegas. First we all went to IN and OUT Burger for lunch. ( Bobby Warren, Marilyn and Alan Wade, Mark and Elaine Nowicki, Bobby and Carolyn Howald, Wendy and Buddy Stallings (our daughter and son-in-law), and Joe and Alice. So... we have one picture of Alice and Wendy at dinner "in town" last night.. Elaine Nowicki and Carolyn Howald doing crafts for Christmas presents while we wait, and last and I saved the best til last.....Mark and Joe doing repairs to Tysinger's trailer where a man behind us backed into the flap wire and tore out pieces that shouldn't have been torn out...So, repairs were made.. Oh, I forgot to mention.....that Super Stock has NOT made a run yet today, and we're supposed to have two tonight..So, we are all hoping we'll get a run in about one hour... Joe and Alice

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Well, I started to post last night, I mean early this morning, when we returned to the motor home...but.....just pooped.. But that's the joy of this sport. These are pictures for you to enjoy.....We will get another qualifying shot later today. Then first round of eliminations after that sometime...Biggy for us today was breakfast at---you got it..."The Blueberry Hill Restaurant." We'll keep you posted...Joe and Alice