Guess I’m gonna have to start a mini-series of posts to document this week’s “Spokane Adventure”. Old college (CMSU, Warrensburg, MO) friend from 1963-64, Herman, flew out from his home in Kansas City to join me in a road trip to Spokane, WA, the unlikely venue for the 2017 staging of the annual event known as the “Porsche Parade”, a nine- or ten-day celebration of the Porsche automobile, sponsored by the Porsche Club of America (largest Porsche fan group in the known universe) and by Porsche of Stuttgart, Deutschland, itself.
The event rotates between places like Vermont and Michigan and Indiana and Miami and wherever — sort of like the Olympics; I heard that one was also staged in South Africa — but we never expected it to happen within striking distance. The original plan was for Herman to drive his 2005 911 Carrera S cabrio out here and join my friends and me as we all convoyed up into eastern WA (maybe even via Rattlesnake Canyon) driving our respective Porsches. But Herman had some foot surgery, so decided to fly and get a rental car (with automatic trans), and my local driving buddies ended up unable to participate.
So, I will introduce this little series with a photograph that Herman sent in the aftermath, when we returned to LaG City and dropped in to see Janet and unexpectedly stumbled upon the briefly visiting Boise contingent. The following is a photograph that Herman took and referred to as “Two Pretty Girls”.
More to follow, backfilling over the past week. Probably everything will be presented in reverse order …