Re: 2006 National Meet in Colorado

From: Bill Day (billday@otecom.net)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 06:36:16 EDT


With luck and a date set I and me and the wife make it:

I have a thing for all breweries! Whether my truck can make any serious fun of
any trails or not, I am definitely into any wheeling I can do and seeing any
ghost towns. I have seen Denver, for myself before, I won't miss a thing if we
just shower and hermit at the campgrounds and do nothing morning and night...
I will likely take off a day or two earlier and take wife to Pikes Peak as that
is something she wants to see.

Of course, I am still so absolutely dependent on the date for this as I will
have to set my vacation for it the end of this year.

Jason Bleazard wrote:

>
> Anyone thinking about coming to the 2006 National Meet in Colorado: we'd
> appreciate if you could take a minute and answer a few questions.
>
> How much time are you thinking of spending in each of the following areas:
> 1. Metro Denver itself (includes Golden, Bandimere Speedway, Red Rocks
> park, etc.)
> 2. In town, but not necessarily Denver (things that would be available
> in any sizeable town, like restaurants, shopping, mini golf, etc.)
> 3. Driving around to different parts of the state. Either scenic
> tours, or off-roading, or traveling to some specific attraction
> someplace.
> 4. Hanging out around the camp site (BBQing, sitting around the fire,
> taking a nap in a hammock, whatever)
>
> We've been working on narrowing down the campgrounds from the list I
> posted a few weeks ago. We've been making great progress, largely thanks
> to Jim Ward's experience with the area and efforts driving around checking
> out various sites in person.
>
> We've realized that we're not really sure what the expectations are for
> where we're going to be spending most of our time. This is going to have
> an impact on where we want to be camped.
>
> As for Denver, we've only identified one day that we'll need to be there.
> We can do a tour of the Coors brewery in the morning, stop in at Red Rocks
> for a picnic lunch, and head to Bandimere for racing in the afternoon. If
> that's the only day we're going to be in the Denver metro area, then being
> close to the city isn't a first priority.
>
> Similarly, if we're going to be hanging out around the campground a lot,
> then we'll want to have a nice campground. If it's mostly going to be a
> place to sleep and eat, and we'll just launch from there to take off every
> day to head out for whatever other activity we want to do, then the
> scenery at the campground isn't quite as important.
>
> We'd appreciate any thoughts or input you might have. Either post them
> here, or send them to nationalmeet@dakota-truck.net if you'd rather keep
> them off the list for any reason.
>
> Thanks!
>

-- 
Bill Day

"A rich man isn't always wealthy, he just has all the love he can give and ever wanted.." http://counter.li.org #384146 284016



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