Re: 2006 National Meet in Colorado

From: Ed McCarrick (edmccarrick@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 18:56:23 EDT


--- Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> 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.)

I agree with everyone else some form of a day trip in
this area would certainly be worth while.

> 2. In town, but not necessarily Denver (things that
> would be available
> in any sizeable town, like restaurants, shopping,
> mini golf, etc.)

I don't know about the rest of you, but I would like
to get some idea of the "flavor" of the city some too.
 I'm sure there would be some time for a couple of us,
atleast, to head into town and do a city excursion.

> 3. Driving around to different parts of the state.
> Either scenic
> tours, or off-roading, or traveling to some
> specific attraction
> someplace.

The scenery of the area, I admit, is the major pull
that got me to vote for this area, so I too would like
to spend some qualitity time in this catagory.

> 4. Hanging out around the camp site (BBQing, sitting
> around the fire,
> taking a nap in a hammock, whatever)

This too has some interest for me depending on the day
and planned activity. If I know this group will will
find plenty of time to chat and visit at every stop we
make. So this is proably least popular for me.

>
> 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.

I know that this is hard to tell from a web site and
such, but i've had some experiences with a "nice"
campground that looked great, until I went to use any
of the facilities. Bathrooms that smelled so bad that
you could barely been able to use them and showers
where you'd be dirtier after the shower than when you
came in :-) So obviously a nice campground would be
nice.
>
> 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!

Sorry i'm a little slow with my input

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