Oil City

On Sunday we were transferred from Slippery Rock to Oil City....we lunched on the way at Burger King....hey, you've got to sample the local culture.....actually the restaurant we were to meet up at was full so we went next door.


We spent Sunday evening with our hosts, so the others will have to tell you what they got up to. Me? I went to the local speedway track with my host Ken. It wasn't speedway as we know it......it was car racing......noisy, smelly, dusty, but great fun.....pity I didn't bring my car with me....there was a prize for the dirtiest car in the parking lot!!



Monday was a vocational day, so again the guys will have to tell you themselves what they got up to. I do know that Roger got himself on the front of the local newspaper with a photo of him in the local jail.....I am assured that this was all part of his vocational experience.....either that or he's been let out on bail....


I spent the morning with a local CPA discussing the differences between the US and UK tax regimes, and in the afternoon Bob Cross took me to his bank where I saw how they do things here, including the drive through.....everything here is geared (sic) to the motor car.....people are amazed when you tell them that the thing you can do in a drive through in Scotland is buy a McDonalds.


The normal Rotary meeting in Oil City was cancelled, and instead a picnic was held at the home of Bob Cross, the local Rotarian who had put together the programme for us....we were asked to do our presentation....no Powerpoint, so we had to improvise....for some reason the original 18 minutes has stretched to almost 25. The photo shows some of the team warming up for the presentation and our rousing rendition of Flower of Scotland.

On Tuesday the Rotarians of Oil City and Franklin did their best to walk the legs off us.....they almost succeeded..

To be continued.....