Similar to last year, we (Judy and myself) made plans to visit my sister-in-law in San Francisco. The timing of August 19 through to the 25 had nothing to do with the fact that it was "Hot Rod Week" in NorCal (a tiny bit of b.s. there).

Hot Rod Week is characterized by a series of events that are organized by Goodguys or, not coincidentally, scheduled to take advantage of the influx of rodders in the Bay area. In any case, there is something to do from the Sunday straight through to the weekend (Goodguys West Coast Nationals).

Seriously though, we did plan to start our week by taking in Andy's 35th., and apparently last, "picnic". If you've been in the Canadian Rodder archives, you'll know that we started the same week last year by attending Andy's Deuce Day 2000.

What likely started as a real picnic 35 years ago has evolved into a largish gathering (approximately 900 cars and who knows how many spectators) that, somehow, still manages to have a small intimate feel to it.

Certainly the host and hostess (Andy & Sue) have a lot to do with it as do Andy's family and friends who help with various aspects of pulling something like this together.