Never Again!!! Day 18-22 Have had better days!
Thursday morning dawned sunny once again as we headed west to Cleveland OH where we jumped over to I-71 southbound to Columbus OH where we picked up I-70 westbound for the last hour to Springfield OH home of the Navistar truck plant. http://www.navistar.com/navistar once known as International Harvester 
a fully integrated farm machinery, construction equipment, school bus & truck manufacturer that made the Scout in 1978, back near the end in 1985 when poor management brought the house of cards tumbling down with the sale of the Ag division to Tenneco oil.
I’ve been going to Springfield since the One Hundred Years of International Trucks Show, that was combined with the Scout Nationals, in 2007.
As 4 previous stays were fine at the http://www.super8.com/hotels/ohio/springfield/super-8-springfield/hotel-overview 
I had booked a room there, so checked in before going over to http://www.superscoutspecialists.com/store 
to get an estimate on an asking price, then over to the http://clarkcoag.com 
to register the Scout for sale & get my pass to enter in the morning.
One nice thing about the Super 8 is it’s next door to a http://www.bobevans.com 
so that after the show I could park the Scout, clean up a bit & just stroll across the parking lot for supper. Then in the morning it was just across the street & down a bit to http://www.crackerbarrel.com 
for my biscuits-n-gravy 
Yummyyyyy!!
I had really hoped to sell the Scout at the Nationals for somewhere near the 10K I had then take the train up to Chicago, catch http://www.amtrak.com/texas-eagle-train 
(sadly it wasn’t to be) At one point, before I knew what the final spurt to finish would cost, I had considered driving the Scout down to sell it in San Salvador but the extra costs plus import taxes made that not feasible.
Friday I was optimistic but only had tire kickers with no big crowds at either the Scouts or http://ohioswapmeet.com 
Saturday was cool, cloudy with small crowds, did meet a guy from Bowmanville but his wife had told him that if he came home with a Scout it would be D-I-V-O-R-C-E time! 
more tire kickers but no one serious, not a happy camper!
Sunday came & I was ready to severely discount but there was hardly anyone there. I talked to the guys at Super Scout & they agreed to take her on consignment for 1/2 my original asking price. Everyone was packing it in & pulling out by 2:00pm so I fired up the ole girl & waved bye-bye to the 2012 Scout Nationals & Ohio Swap meet (not knowing it was to be the last show they would do together)!
With everything that had screwed up on this trip I decided to make like the birds & flock off ASAP by breaking my vow not to fly in the US (little did I know that I would pay dearly for that decision) Back at the Super 8 (which had gone downhill a bit every year since 2007) I booked a flight for Tues. morning on http://www.aa.com my favourite airline (little did I know that would soon change) 
DAY-ORD-MIA-SAL flying out of http://www.daytonairport.com
Monday I did a final circle check http://www.wosba.ca/index.php?menu_id=3465 (after 45+ yrs of commercial driving 
trucks, school buses and even farm tractors {contracted to the MTO} requiring daily circle checks, they’re as normal as breathing) after a road trip of 2,300+km (1,500+/-mi) all the fluids were still on the full marks (COOL!). Fired the old girl up & headed over to Cracker Barrel for one last feed of 
, then it was over to 
to turn over the keys/ownership for the Scout with no name. While there I learned that the powers that be of the swap meet had managed to piss of the owner of SSS so much that he said “Never again”!
Next year http://www.midnitestar.org will be holding the Scout Nationals at 
Where there’s room to play with the Scouts, should be cool but too late for me.
Went out to say Goodbye – Adios to the Scout-with-no-name & take a final picture. 
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