[Jackpine]

Cody pretty much summed it up, except for leaving out the fact that he and his Wife Jessica are two of the nicest, down to earth people you'd ever meet. Janet and I feel absolutely privileged to have met both them and Bill and Corey. These are four wonderful people, folks! I just wish we'd met somewhere other than Vegas so that there would have been fewer distractions, and, that our time together had overlapped a bit better. Janet had to see patients, so we couldn't get there till Wednesday. Our time together was much too short!

SEMA was TOO much! I got to spent a bit of time with the people in the Edge booth talking about the new programming platforms they've got coming out - the CS and the CTS. The backup camera that goes with the CTS is really a good one too. Beautiful display and they said the version for F150's is on sale now. Bill said he'd be able to offer custom programs for it also in the not too-distant future.

Here's a few pictures:

What I wish I had for my next camping, off road vehicle. It's mounted on an F550 chassis and has virtually everything anyone would need for back-country camping:


My mid-life crisis car (if I ever have a mid-life crisis):


The color in this picture is a bit misleading. It's a glossy black and satin dark slate grey color. It's absolutely gorgeous!

This is the fountain in front of the Bellagio Hotel that Cody was talking about. Some of the jets of water would shoot at least 20 stories high, I think, in sync with loud passages of music. This picture just shows some of the lower jets:


We didn't come away broke. This was Janet's winning cashout after a session with the penny slots (you can tell we're BIG gamblers):


And, the skyline of the hotel were we all stayed, the NYNY:


But, like always, it's good to be home. Bill and Corey, Cody and Jessica, it was an absolute pleasure to meet you and spend some time with you all.

- Jack (and Janet)