Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Wednesday
2009′s Lake of the Ozarks Shootout started out much like every other year… with a long drive south from Michigan to Missouri. 1/3 of the Biokleen Team was already in Missouri after working with the staff at Redneck Trailer Supply locations in Ohio then in Oklahoma. When the rest of the team pulled out of Kalamazoo, MI, home base for Bio-Kleen Products, Inc., it was pouring rain; and it stayed that way basically till we hit I-55 in northern Illinois.
The sunshine and clear skies came out just in time to view the expansive wind power project south of Joliet, IL. The project must still be in the early stages as none of the massive turbines that were scattered across acres of soybean and corn fields were not yet turning. There must have been nearly 60+ already erected and more on the way. You could see large cranes in the distance piecing together these green energy giants. They seemed so small and fragile in the distance across the farm lands. That was until we bore witness to a single blade being hauled in on an extra long semi tractor trailer, the longest I’ve ever seen. That really put the size of the turbines and the project into perspective.
Down the freeway we learned just how skilled a crop dusting pilot must be. We first saw a small, single engine plane flying very close to the horizon. About a mile later the plane was just over the freeway, facing oncoming traffic. The plane then quickly pulled up and sharply cut back down to the left hand side of the road; making a pass across the length of the soybean field at speeds well over ours and at heights that wouldn’t allow a large truck to pass under.
When that row was finished, the pilot again cut over the freeway, making a large loop over the road, as if all the motorists came to a traveling aerobatics show; then on to the next row. The plane and it’s pilot continued to dance in the sky amidst the highway travelers, as if they were stuck to the pavement with glue and he was making up his own free flowing paths as he goes. Though the skies filled our excitement for the time being, we still had a very long road ahead of us and at the end of it is what’s really on our mind; the green waters of the Lake of the Ozarks.
We made it down just in time for a late dinner at Captian Ron’s where the Shootout is hosted for the second year in a row. Our goal for the next day was to set up our vendor booth, service some local dealers around the Lake of the Ozarks and get the biokleen boat launched to be ready for Friday’s pokerrun.
View more blog posts, video and pictures from the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009:
- Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Wednesday
- Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Thursday
- Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Friday
- Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Saturday
- Lake of the Ozarks Shootout 2009, Sunday
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