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The day I almost met RD

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Yesterday, I came across a few old memory cards that I did not recognize. If you ever hit any of our parties 2008-2013 you would know that there was a certain amount of risk that comes with exploring memory cards like this so of course, I smiled.

Desert Storm 2010, I would typically be down for the count by midnight at the latest. Luckily, my good friend Yarder would take over late night hosting duties. I remember waking up to Bud and Bud Light cans everywhere which is weird since we are Coors Light drinkers. Half drunk and waiting for morning shots the late night crew started telling me about the magical morning.

While trying to hold themselves up on our slanted driveway at 2am, they watch a truck pull up with the bed filled to the top with beer and ice, like something out of a country music video. Out pops the husky beer fairy, his cute wife and a couple of cool friends handing out an offer to refill as many coolers as they wanted with freshies. I have no idea how they found our place or why they'd even be in the neighborhood at 2am. We'll call it a wonderful coincidence.

Seriously, I thought two of my friends might cry as they told the story. It's as if they had won the sweepstakes.
This crew sounds like a special batch of people that I wanted to party with.
"Did you guys catch a name or number so we can invite them back for tonight's big BBQ?" was the first thing out of my mouth.
Blank stares and them looking at each other was my answer. Bummer.
Our group talked about that night for years.

Back to the memory card. It appears someone got pics of the beer fairy and his posse.

We didn't officially meet Dave and Stacy for another couple years. Some guys were just born to be legends....

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LOL

BTW, I didn’t know it was acceptable to call Dave a Fiery.
 

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I believe thats when my liver started changing color
 

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For those putting it together that was the First of the forum after parties! I don't remember who put it all together but it was in the parking lot of a new restaurant called "La Vida Dolce" and it was a get together for the Hotboat members.. I think 60'ish people showed up to it. Romer Beverage and I got together and they gave me a TON of beer for it. It was so much beer that I didn't have enough coolers for it all so I unloaded most of it into the bed of my Tundra and then went over to Smiths and bought 600'ish lbs of ice and just poured ice all over the top of it. LOL

After the party ended we went over to Rogers for awhile and we saw a garage door open (my memory is fairly blurry at this point) and said "Those people could use some beer." Needless to say with 60 or so people at the party we didn't even put a dent in the truck bed full of beer. :D

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For those putting it together that was the First of the forum after parties! I don't remember who put it all together but it was in the parking lot of a new restaurant called "La Vida Dolce" and it was a get together for the Hotboat members.. I think 60'ish people showed up to it. Romer Beverage and I got together and they gave me a TON of beer for it. It was so much beer that I didn't have enough coolers for it all so I unloaded most of it into the bed of my Tundra and then went over to Smiths and bought 600'ish lbs of ice and just poured ice all over the top of it. LOL

After the party ended we went over to Rogers for awhile and we saw a garage door open (my memory is fairly blurry at this point) and said "Those people could use some beer." Needless to say with 60 or so people at the party we didn't even put a dent in the truck bed full of beer. :D

RD

I bet there’s times the thought of covering RDP Desert Storm with less than a truck bed of beer again sounds real nice.


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For those putting it together that was the First of the forum after parties! I don't remember who put it all together but it was in the parking lot of a new restaurant called "La Vida Dolce" and it was a get together for the Hotboat members.. I think 60'ish people showed up to it. Romer Beverage and I got together and they gave me a TON of beer for it. It was so much beer that I didn't have enough coolers for it all so I unloaded most of it into the bed of my Tundra and then went over to Smiths and bought 600'ish lbs of ice and just poured ice all over the top of it. LOL

After the party ended we went over to Rogers for awhile and we saw a garage door open (my memory is fairly blurry at this point) and said "Those people could use some beer." Needless to say with 60 or so people at the party we didn't even put a dent in the truck bed full of beer. :D

RD

Phebus put it together, dont remember much other then that LOL....
 

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I bet there’s times the thought of covering RDP Desert Storm with less than a truck bed of beer again sounds real nice.


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Lol. I enjoy the parties.. I will say the street fair kicks our ass so the day after is always difficult
 

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LOL. That's back when we were on Offshore.

From what I remember....I drove the "beer" truck back to my house from the party. We pulled into my driveway and Dave like a hound dog takes a couple sniffs of the air and says "there's people down there partying". WTF? Who, where? He walks down the street, knocks on a garage door and out pops some people. Dave asked if anyone wanted a truck full of beer.

We ended up on the south side that night with Billdo and Dennis until 5 am that night, on the water for the poker run by 9 am then down to parker for the rest of the weekend.
 

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Now that's river behaviour right there. At it's finest.

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We were staying with 454 Rocket Crew. I think this was our 2nd Desert Storm. Those were the days.

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I wish I had more pics from back then. I lost an external hard drive and lost everything pretty much pre 2015-6
 

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wasn't the restaurant "Two Guys" back then?
If I recall, that particular party set the stage for RD and Chris Davidson (former HotBoatMagazine, was Performance Boats Magazine at the time, prior to Speedboat) to work together towards entertaining all of us in one place and not have two separate party locations to attend at the same time after the Desert Storm street party.
 
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