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Bo le Hun"ng Across the U.S.

The Collec"ons

We le& a&er a couple hours of hun"ng. I ended up adding just under 30 bo les to my collec"on. I could have easily doubled or tripled that number but I had to remember to
save money for the rest of the trip and also room for the bo les in the trip.
Which brings me to the other guys, they each added hundreds (and hundreds) of bo les to their collec"ons. We headed back to the resort to figure out how we would be
able to get everything to fit for the rest of the trip.
The solu"on, well Kriss had 2 boxes of liqueurs he was taking to the show to dump, not caring how much he got. Rotem bought both boxes (and we le& them at the resort to
give him room for some of his bo les and a trip to the Post office (and a ton of packages) took care of some more. I also channeled my wife’s Tetris skills and we got every-
thing to fit in the truck.
Next Collec"on was not to purchase but to see. Thursday night before the show, Bill Baker
invited a group over for Pizza, Subs and Beer and to see his collec"on.
I enjoy being able to see other peoples collec"ons and pictures don’t always do them jus-
"ce. It is cool to see how things are displayed (and maybe get an idea or two for your own
display).
Bill does not specialize in any one liquor which makes for a very cool collec"on, he buys
bo les that he likes the way they look. It’s like most of our collec"ons start out like, but
then never get the chance to grow into since we start collec"ng only Vodkas or Whiskies
and ignore the rest. This collec"on was much more diverse than mine which made it fun to
see.`
The last collec"on was on the way home. When Nancy Crawford heard about the trip she
invited us to see Jim’s collec"on and bo le room. We were talking about going into Ken-
tucky anyway so a stop in Cincinna" was not that much further out of the way and I had
heard of the bo le room and collec"on and I was not going to miss anoppurtunity to see it
in person.

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