Terrible Tom wrote:
> That is what I am hoping I can count on when it comes to support for
> this. This WOULD be a once in a lifetime meet for just about all of us.
> I doubt a meet of this proposed magnatude would happen again until the
> 20 year mark - and by then - who knows what will be of the DML and its
> members. lol By the time the DML clicks over to 20 years old - there
> would probably be only 7 or 8 lunatic die hard members holding onto
> their trucks that are vacuum sealed and have been restored 30 times. (ok
> maybe 3 times for everyone else - 30 times for my trucks) geez - by the
> year 2015 - my Dakotas will be 26 years old! So its safe to assume this
> will be a once in a life time meet. - though I would hope it would
> happen again :)
I hadn't thought about it that way, but you make an excellent point.
There is probably no chance of this happening ever again (maybe some day
in the distant future, when we shift our obsession to some other form of
transportation...)
>> I might be convinced to go further, but it would probably result in me
>> flying to wherever the event would be.
Another way for me to put this... I don't want to drive so far that I
feel inclined to change my oil on the way back :-)
>> (I like the idea of a desert-area meet a lot because I've been wanting
>> to see a lot of those areas anyway and could make a mini-vaction out
>> of the trip back home)
>
>
> Desert, forest, or some other nice outdoor location is what I had in
> mind. I need input on this aspect - location is a big thing - not
> everyone will want to camp out I would think. More to come on this as I
> have another post to send off to the DML here shortly.
I know a lot of nice places to go out here on the "left coast" but I
suspect that would be a bit too much driving for those members coming
from the east. Any other west coast (hell, western half of the U.S.)
members think they'd be interested in making it to an event like this?
>> Also, regarding the idea of figuring out where everyone is, I could
>> set up a web form that will take that information and keep it. We
>> could then import it pretty easily into one of the freely available
>> mapping systems (I've recently discovered some pretty cool ones) that
>> would give us an idea of how things look.
>>
>
> Jason and I have been talking this over too - a set up like that would
> make co-ordination much easier.
I can start collecting the data pretty easily, so let me know if you
want me to do that. Once we have the data stored it will be easy to
manipulate it later.
-Bill
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