Cruise to Dublin

27 Corvettes showed up for the cruise to Dublin and the Dr. Pepper Museum. The weather was beautiful for a drive down Hwy 4 to Stephenville, our first stop for lunch at a popular BBQ restaurant.

After a brief tour of town trying to find our lunch stop we arrived at a BBQ restaurant that has a unique way of you ordering your meat. Everything is on a huge grill and you just tell them what you want. After a great meal and a tour of the parking lot and the surrounding streets, our fearless leader Mr. Ed Clark, led us to Dublin and the Dr Pepper Museum. Which way do we go Ed? Trying to keep 27 Corvettes together is no easy task.

Dr. Pepper was originally made with pure sugar but later changed to use corn syrup at every bottling plant except the one in Dublin, which decided not to go the cheaper route because of taste. They still make it the old fashioned way. We had to split into two groups to tour the museum because of the size of our group. The museum has an old style soda fountain in part of it where you can still purchase Dr. Pepper that is bottled there and other old memorabilia. On our tour some of us tried to see if we could tell which Dr. Pepper girl on some of the old signs was Dollie Cole, one of our VIPs, who attends our Classic every year.

After Dublin, some of us continued to Crawford, and the Western White House; the local home of President Bush. We decide to just limit our stop there to the two stops in downtown Crawford. A gas station and restaurant; and a gift shop called the Yellow Rose. We all split up and went home different ways after Crawford. We and a few others stopped in West, just north of Waco and picked up some Czech pastries. A full day of driving and seeing the sites.

Curt Troster