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Please buy your calf-feeding tickets if you haven't already. (cross posted, currently six MINIs attending) Weather looks perfect! Join us! (This is a re-do of a very popular Frederick County drive during MTTS 2022. Since the priority list was MTTS Out-of_Stater's - two full sessions - this is the "locals" chance I promised to run)

Clubman is "on my list" -- I've got a '13 S, but when I get a new MINI, one of these days, I am sticking with the Clubman model. BB2 will both lead to questions ("what does that mean?") but also to conversations ""what does that mean?" which is fun! Have fun!

I don't see that Carlisle (Ok, Ok, South Central PA MINI Motorists) have an organized drive for Friday to get to WGI as they have historically done .. I'll be heading up from MD, probably staying directly on 15 since my PA friends aren't taking us on intereting backroads somewhere .. if anyone wants to meet up off 15 in Frederick, MD, I'm pretty flexible on my departure time for the day. Could meet at Sheetz on Thomas Johnson Drive - it's directly off 15. Friday looks like rain all day, but Saturday clears up nicely ... if you've never been, it's a fun event.

In the same "missed out" boat and making up for it with other events. Thought about MINIs Take Mountain Lake next weekend, but I do not think my foot will be healed well enough by then (the reason I missed MTTS) .. also looking at either Hampton Roads Fall Colours Run or maybe MINIs Take Vermont for a fall excursion .. But none of that is what you asked about ... the Carlisle MINI group for at least the past 8-9 years (except pandemic) has run an event to get to MATG, even before it was a MINI USA sponsored event. They usually meet at Fort Hunter (Harrisburg) area, take a lovely drive up through PA backroads and stop for lunch somewhere along the line. Some return on Sunday, others Monday (on your own return) .. all that enticement and so far I do not see an event posted on either their Meetup page (in the process of being d/c'd) or their FB page. If I see / get more details, I will post them here. MATG is a really fun event for a good cause in a beautiful area .. Friday - Sun/Monday really doesn't allow enough time to see everything in the area (not unreasonable to get to Niagra Falls, Finger Lakes, and the Corning Glass Museum) so if you have the time to make a week of it, do it.

2nd the small cooler idea -- especially if you are staying in hotels that include breakfast .. too much food between hotel breakfast and MINI R&R breakfast, so nice to have the cooler for the spares .. Likewise on the radios - could have done without them, but they will take up space regardless because wouldn't want to not have them. Blanket vs chairs for any outdoor seating option is personal preference. Fingers crossed the driving app has been improved .. surely with the technology we have these days ...

I am flying out to ABQ on the 12th also from BWI. Spending the extra $ to fly non-stop arriving at 3pm. Jill? There are 2 dedicated FB pages to the event - including one for "newbies" and there are lots of questions, answers, and lists I will say that every time I have gone (this will be 7th) I have packed entirely too much stuff ..

Thank you, we've got a nice group going to what looks to be an awesome breakfast spot .. hoping after that point some folks heading east will stick together, and MINIs heading northeast will too!

Posted as an Event on MOTD FB page; RSVP on the event if you would like to join us (helps headcount for breakfast) https://fb.me/e/58pmVL3Xi

Ah, gotcha. Bingo used to be Thursday, but it's been a few years since I've been.

PS I'm heading to Fontana early Thursday morning (gotta arrive in time for Bingo!) from Frederick if anyone is doing the same.

Just curious, does that mean you do not go to the Farewell dinner? (I've already signed up and paid, so hoping maybe this dinner will be Friday night :-))

Not sure how many DC Metro members are planning to attend MINIs on the Dragon this year Links for those unfamiliar: MINIs on the Dragon_web | MINIs on the Dragon_FB But for anyone attending who is interested in caravanning from the DMV/P area, here's details for a leg of the Sunday return option (Feel free to co-ordinate outbound plans; they tend to vary. Sunday homeward is more universal) MINI Caravan East Sunday, May 5 (aka Delaying the Inevitable MOTD withdrawal) There are no events posted for Sunday as everyone will be headed home. But many of us will be headed the same direction, at least for a while. I'll have a lonely 8.5 hour drive back to Maryland. Here's the plan for Sunday, feel free to join in: Meet at the Fontana Village General Store for 9am departure. We will head East along 74 to 19 through Bryson City, Cherokee and Maggie Valley to Waynesville, NC. Drive time 1.50 hours Brunch stop at The Buttered Biscuit 1226 Dellwood City Rd, Waynesville, NC 28786 Link: https://butteredbiscuitnc.com Reviews: 4.7 with 2210 Reviews on Google Waynesville is about 20 minutes from where the MINIs heading East (40) and the MINIs heading North (26) will split and have to say Good Bye. Please indicate your RSVP so that I may give the restaurant - which has hosted motorcycles, but not MINIs, to date - a headcount.

There are several potential inquiries and from experience a lot of people will indicate an interest and then drop out .. there are a couple of other feelers out there, but this (DC) is closest to home. Please add my name to the list. One MINI. Prefer Seattle return since that's where the event ends & I'll need to get home .. (My MINI was trailered out to Portland for the start of 2018; I've got a 13 year old car so I throw a car cover on it and we're good. I believe it was about 1/2 the cost of enclosed trailer. Let me know which way you're leaning so I can decide. Thx)

This is soooo on my list; unfortuantely I will be heading out of town and don't think I can wait until after the run to do so. If for some reason I can work out the logistics, I'll join in .. have a great time

I shipped WINIFiED "to" Portland in 2018 for ~$900, to the MINI dealership there. But I had to drive to Atlanta for the truck and then buy a one-way plane ticket back from Atlanta. It actually worked out really well but would love to see a group doing same out of DC / Phila area to not have to drive so far. Can't justify shipping both directions, so will commit to driving to Albuquerque, likely a speed run ((2) 12 hour days with one overnight) I'd like to say it's too far so I'm just not going .. but I know myself better. There will be a lot of chatter and I'll get afflicted with FOMO ..

That's more than we've usually gotten by this time each year

Looks like we will have great weather for this event on Saturday. So far 10 going (including several first timers) on the Carlisle MINI Meetup page, join us!

(This would be a haul for DC based MINIs, but since there are club member all over the DMV area, there may be some interest) MINIs are HOT .. MINIs are COOL .. MINIs are BOTH!! Join in for All or Part PENN'S CAVE | LUNCH | MASSEY'S Old-Fashioned Frozen Custard (since 1947) NOT Weather Contingent - we'll go HOT or COOL or Rain or Shine Meet: Saturday October 28, 8AM at Sheetz 359 E King St Shippensburg PA 17257 Leave 830AM to The Roast Post (HOT!) 181 US 22 Mt Union PA 17066 Leave 10AM to Penn's Cave Caverns (COOL~) 222 Penns Cave Rd Centre Hall PA 16828 Link: Penn's Cave Caverns Boat Ride through all-water Cavern (guided) Note: Group rate if we have 20+ attendees committed Leave 1230PM to Deli and Gourmet Pizza (HOT!) 12144 William Penn Hwy Huntingdon PA 16652 Leave 3PM to Massey's Frozen Custard (COOL~~TREAT .. as in OUR TREAT for JERRY'S BIRTHDAY!) 600 W High Street Carlisle PA 17013 Note: Group rate at Penn's Cave if 20+ | details provided if/when RSVP reach 20 Number of MINIs limited to 20 (Original Post / RSVPs / Discussion on Carlisle MINI Meetup: Carlisle MINI Event)

Please note: unable to edit post. Please DISREGARD the speed run return reference. Heading back on Saturday instead. Have fun!!

If anyone is interested in either of the following, with regards to MOTM, please post. 1. The Great Ice Cream Run 8. Leaving Staunton VA on Sunday July 30th to MOTM. The daily itinerary is posted below - join up at whatever point works for you to cross paths. 2. The "speed run" back East on Sunday August 6th. For those who are out of vacation time & need to get back ...and would rather roadtrip with other MINIs! Meets at Sea Shell City 7075 Levering Rd Chebogan. (Time TBD but we usually leave before the event breakfast ie by 8am to get on the road. Return DC/MD/VA/PA same day.) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A4RPlAYn6AiT4ciYXKjKGLamuQutYq2n/view

Tires & / or tire life? Any dents / rash? Thanks!

Thank you Lori for a fun event and for getting the weather to behave! Though I've been in this area for nine years (and believe it or not used to come up from NC for DC Metro events occasionally when I lived there) we definitely hit some fun roads I had not been on before .. such beautiful scenery! When we were stopped at a red light, Jerry and I were talking out loud (is there really any other way? there's my early Sunday AM brain composing a sentence) that if the other non-MINI vehicles stopped in traffic saw 4 MINIs with both MD and VA plates, would they think we were together or would they think it was a co-incidence? Four MINIs would seem to be the quandary point - at 5 MINIs it would be a "definitely planned" gathering -- but in fact at 5 MINIs it was not See you again soon. I will get the drives together that I have promised, just have to look at the calendar. (Except for the Great Ice Cream Jog, that will definitely be July 29)

Just signed up - there will be two of us in one MINI; though not sure what the plan is if the weather is rainy? Will keep an eye on the board .. fingers crossed for a weather clearing!