Maybee we should get a feel for who would attend & where their located.....
Then we can pick a tentative meeting place and do the initial planning. :)
--Gary Hedlin www.garyhedlin.com 2005 Dakota SLT CC 4.7 5spd 1998 Dakota Sport RC 3.9
On 11/20/04 1:20 AM, in article cnmr1d$lso$1@bent.twistedbits.net, "Bill Pitz" <dakota@billpitz.com> wrote:
> > 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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