Going to Indy for Muster

Have fun at the muster.   Wish I could go!  

Went to the 50th last year in Syracuse, and had a blast!   Wasn't planning to, but between getting elected Vice President of our chapter the previous month, and a few members promising that I'd be taken care of, in terms of expenses, it was kind of a no-brainer at that point.   

Unfortunately, the finances just aren't there to make the trip this year, and I don't think anyone else local is going this time.   Guess it was the novelty of the "50th Anniversary" that got everyone riled up.   

Syracuse in 2011 or bust!    

I went to the Muster in Indy and did I ever get a big surprise.  I stopped at a vendors booth to buy a few fire apparatus books and who was there?  None other than Walter M. P. McCall himself!  I had purchased the ALF 500 and 600 series and Ahrens Fox books, 2 of many books written by him.  The lady working there asked if I would like them signed and by Walter McCall.  I was totally floored by this.  So I now have 2 of my new fire apparatus books signed by the great author Walter M. P. McCall!  Other than that the muster was great too and a good turn out even though the weather was cool for this time of year with highs in the upper 60s.