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Legends of Hilton Head Rugby- Valdosta via Jacksonville, FL

To start the 2008 spring season the Hilton Head Gators were traveling to Valdosta on a cold rainy day.  This was to be the debut of the highly touted British import "Big Jim." As his first duty as Match Secretary, John Barlow arranged for a charter bus for the 4 hour trip.  The bus was to leave the Kroger in Bluffton at 7:00a.m. for South Georgia.  The bus we were supposed to be on got in a wreck on the way to pick up the team.  A replacement bus was dispatched from Charleston and we hit the road on the 2nd charter bus around 8:30 a.m.  On the way, Craig Fenstermaker insisted we watch the 1985 motivational wrestling movie Vision Quest.  Just after the movie had ended, the guys started looking around at the surroundings and notice that we were in FLORIDA.  John Barlow, AKA Nugent, had used Map Quest to get directions to the field without actually looking at the directions and sent us through Florida to get to Georgia from South Carolina.  We eventually got to the field and within 10 minutes of the start of the game Big Jim broke has pinky and we haven't seen him since.  After we beat a weak Valdosta side 36-12 and partied with them for a couple of hours (when you have a bus no one has to worry about driving home,) we got back in the charter bus heading to South Carolina.  On the way the "john" on the bus become to full for the bus to proceed.  The driver pulled off I95 and "fixed" the problem.  We arrived back in Bluffton around 12:30a.m.

 

Published Dec 01 2008, 02:37 PM by admin

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