Hehe... Looks like im in the same boat... Trying to catch up with all the
posts after a spontaneous road trip to. God it felt good, especially
driving a vehicle I didn't have to worry about weather it would make it or
not!
Annyway, Denver is a very nice place to have a meet.... Scoped it out on the
trip. Plenty of parks, campgrounds, and hotels for the less adventurous!
Ideally this would be my 1st pick of locations.... But I still think we need
to get a list of who can go, then find a central location.
One place I would STRONGLY oppose is Iowa. Besides the fact that after 3
hours of driving through it I wanted to yank the wheel into a telephone pole
to end the monotony, but the gas sucks and the state troopers are more than
happy to meet you (especially when you've just got temporary plates).
Wherever we do this, we need to plan some events that everyone can
participate in and enjoy. Death Ball may sound fun, but im sure some people
here wouldn't fare well in the game. I would say if we did like a weekend,
Saturday should be a meet & greet thing, maybe a picnic, then Sunday do
something like an amusement park, concert, something everyone can enjoy.
One idea... GROUP PHOTO! I don't know if anyone has a panoramic camera, but
I am thinking about a nice pic of 20-30 daks in a row! Might take some
effort to pull off, but I think it would be a nice souvenir for everyone to
take home.
Other than that, has anyone thought of exactly when this whole thing would
happen?? Might help in the planning of activities & whatnot.
--Gary Hedlin www.garyhedlin.com 2005 Dakota SLT CC 4.7 5spd 1998 Dakota Sport RC 3.9
On 11/29/04 11:38 PM, in article 41AC0644.6000906@aol.com, "Terrible Tom" <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:
> > Ok - finally finished reading all the posts that I missed. Lots of good > conversation going on - and lots of great ideas too. A few thoughts I > had after reading all the messages - I had not thought of the fact that > some of us *cough*... and I have I have no IDEA at ALL who might fall > into this list (Heehee!), get a little loud at the night time DML BBQ > Fireside gatherings hehehe. To make this camping thing work, we gotta > have an isolated campground area - or camping site so that I won't... um > so that "some people" won't disturb the other normal campers with their > screaming kids and barking dog. > > Ideally - I think we should try and find a site that is either large > enough where we can be as loud as we want at 4 am and not bother anyone > - or small enough to actually reserve the whole damned thing - pending > enough people show up. If that were to happen we would have to get > solid confirmations from those interested. > > This made me realize that the campgrounds up here in Wisconsin all have > posted notices that campgrounds must be quiet at 11 pm - hell we're just > getting STARTED at 11! > > Too bad we can't make Wisconsin the target area - I know of one small > camp ground very close to my summer cottage - that is small enough that > we could reserve almost the whole thing. It has a lake off of it... > smallish however - but there are much larger lakes only minutes away. > > LOL thought just occured to me to hold the meet on my property up there > we have 40 acres and are surrounded totally by state forest - but I know > my family would never go for it. My grandmother would totally freak out > and disown me (its her place), if I mentioned having the DML invade her > sanctuary. LOL Not to mention there really isnt anything else of > interest up there. And there is lots of bog, swampy marsh, and > wetlands. Whooooo boy it turns into Mo'Skeeter Hell in the warm weather. > > I'm going to do some research and phone calling around on my own soon. > Try and pick out some good campgrounds in the areas we have in mind. > > I am planning on towing Christine all the way - but I even had a thought > that it would be nice to get both my Daks operable for this meet. Only > way I could get both out there would be to get a bigger tow rig and a > two car hauler... or tow the 2wd out with Christine. However Christine > in her current configuration would be no where near up to that task. > Seeing how Walt dragged his 88 around with his Gen III, makes me think I > can do it too. The odds of that happening (having both daks) is almost > impossible. The 2wd needs an engine and transmission and some extensive > body restoration. Hell maybe I'll tow it out as is and just friggin > park the thing and show off what a wonderful truck I don't have yet LOL! > > As for extra-meet events... I'm all for going whatever the group wants > to do - as long as I can get in some good mudding or trail riding. I > also really really want to hit the drag strip. Geocaching... I've read > about it and know its a form of GPS navigated scavenger hunt. Beyond > that - I must confess I'm not sure I understand its appeal LOL. > > I'm not very big on the idea of firearms however. If you pressed me for > a reason why - I guess I would just have to say I'm not interested in > them much... NOW... on the other hand - if the group wanted to build a > trebuche... I would be totally in favor of that LOL. Those things are > seriously cool. Fling huge things through the air!! Whee!! > > Minigolf would be really fun - I love minigolf - having played a game of > that in about 10 years. > > Also I think we all should get on the same page when it comes to > communicating about this. If everyone had a compatible IM client - like > AIM... we could do group confrences on this to share ideas.
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