Ray Heads Home from Bowling Green
The Long Drive Back to San Diego
The C5 Birthday Bash was over. Time to point the Z06 west and drive home — all the way back to San Diego.
The C5 Birthday Bash had been everything Ray had hoped for — the C6 reveal, the ALL50 commemorative brick, Mammoth Caves, and the company of hundreds of fellow Corvette enthusiasts. Now it was time to go home.
Heading back to San Diego from Bowling Green is, as Ray put it, 'a heckuva drive' — roughly 2,000 miles across the heartland of America. For most people, that would be a chore. For Ray, it was just another road trip.
The drive home took several days, retracing some of the ground covered on the way out and finding new roads along the way. The ALL50 Z06, now well past 30,000 miles, handled it all without complaint.
By April 30, Ray was back in San Diego. The C5 Bash trip was complete — another chapter in the ongoing story of the All50 Corvette and the man who drove it to every state in the union.
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The ALL50 Z06 — Still Going
The C5 Bash trip added several thousand more miles to the ALL50 Z06's odometer. The car that had been built specifically for the 50-state road trip was now a well-traveled machine with a story that kept growing.
Ray's relationship with the Z06 was unlike most people's relationship with their cars. It wasn't just transportation — it was a partner in adventure, a rolling record of everywhere he'd been and everything he'd done. Every mile added to the total was another line in the story.