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    Hi just joined the club and thought I would introduce myself. I am English and my name is Steve and I live near the coast in France. I have a 1941 Mercury Staff car which is nearing completion and I hope to have it ready for the 6th June to visit Normandy and join the parades and events there.
    I have bought a 1954 Chevrolet 150 Panel Truck and had it detailed in Los Angeles and myself and my wife are coming out in September to take possession and drive it cross country through to Miami where we will ne shipping it back to Europe.
    We are hoping to visit shows., museums, a drive in and club swap meets while we are there, oh and my wife says some malls and nice restaurants.
    We are looking to find some nice B & B places on our journey and we will be setting up a blog to follow our road trip. We start at the Queen Mary at Long Beach where we had our honeymoon years back and we are looking for a place somewhere near Tusayan North Arizona for one night so if anyone could recommend a place it would be much appreciated.
    Will keep adding news and we hope to meet up with fellow petrol heads along our route.
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    Steve

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    Welcome to CHR, Steve. Your trip to take delivery of the truck, and then drive across the US to Miami sounds great! I would offer that September sort of wraps up the season for a lot of the smaller, regional shows, cruises and get-together events, especially farther north. If you're wanting swap meets, shows etc I would think biasing your route to the south would be more promising. Maybe some of the guys who live farther south can offer some good suggestions. Here's the Good Guys Event schedule, which has several in September, October and even November if you can manage to hit one of the weekends on your trek - https://www.good-guys.com/events/event-info/2016-events Also, Hemmings tracks a lot of events, and they have a calendar that you can search by date, and home in on locations, too - http://www.hemmings.com/calendar/?li...categoryFacet=

    Again, welcome and for one, I'll be looking forward to hearing details of your journey!
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    Welcome Steve-------how many days for the travel?

    Peggie Sue's diner east side of Barstow, Ca,

    Tusanya is pretty much in the South side Grand Canyon National park and I don't think too many B & B are close? but several small, basic hotels are---Camping? Stars are most bueautiful of anywhere and probably tie with Northern Lights from Alaska---

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    More when you tell me how much time------

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    Welcome from Iowa! Your trip will be very cool for sure! You might be able to hit some states state fairs around that time frame. They are always worth checking out. You might be able to hit part of route 66 on your trip too.
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    Steve, Welcome, my suggestion is make sure and head down some of Route 66 to see America off the super highways and enjoy the road, you will bipass the big chain restaurants and hit what we call Mom & Pop establishments, get a few good books on 66 to really enjoy it (I have many suggestions!). I am heading to Arizona via 66 this Nov. One of the must do's is the singing highway in New Mexico around Taos. Have fun and glad your here.
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