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Event Title: ​Blue Ridge Parkway Tour Event Date: 06/14/2018 09:00 AM to 06/17/2018 01:00 PM Event Address: 27 W Beverley St, Staunton, VA, 24401 Blue Ridge Parkway Tour If you have never traversed the Blue Ridge Parkway, especially in your MINI, this is a fantastic opportunity to do so. The Tar Heel MINI Motoring Club has organized this event annually for 10 years! Dates: Thursday, June 14 - Sunday, June 17, 2018 Please Note: See details for the Great Ice Cream Jog event to get "to" Waynesboro, VA on Thursday, June 14th Link: Great Ice Cream Jog with Skyline Drive Details (from the Tar Heel site - which also has specifics about driving groups, hotels, what to bring, etc.) Link:Tar Heel MINI Motoring Club Blue Ridge Parkway This year's Blue Ridge Parkway Tour, the 10th annual running (WOW, 10 years and still twisting!), will start at the northern terminus of the BRP, near Waynesboro, VA. The Tour will kick off with a Welcome get-together meal on Thursday evening. Early Friday morning, we'll break up into our three groups, heading south stopping at various overlooks and points of interest along the way. Our first overnight stop will be Friday evening in Jefferson, NC. The second overnight stop will be in Hendersonville, NC (south of Asheville) on Saturday evening. Sunday morning we'll hit the BRP for the final leg to the southern terminus of the BRP in the Cherokee, NC area. That should be about lunch time and everyone will go their separate ways with a ton of memories and stories!! More on FaceBook here: Blue Ridge Parkway Facebook Note: the Facebook event is to help members connect with other's planning to do the Blue Ridge Parkway Tour. Registration is through Motorsport Reg (check the link below). !!REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!! ($15 / MINI) Link: Blue Ridge Parkway Registration RSVP on the event here: ​Blue Ridge Parkway Tour

As an FYI, in the description this still says "Have your Sunday free" so I had to scroll through the messages to figure out whether the date was wrong or the day was. Would love to go some year but this year doesn't work ... have fun and be safe!

Just as an FYI in the event anyone was intending to go to this event -- due to the weather, it has been postponed until April 15th (both parts, the breakfast and the vineyard run); hopefully if you were planning to go you checked out the updates on one of the FB pages, but just in case ..

Anybody from DC Metro going this Sunday? My MINI is currently in Hampton Roads getting spruced up and I would love to be able to catch a ride to Crown MINI in Richmond (or Yorktown) to pick her up and then head to this event. Crown MINI in Richmond is sponsoring breakfast and then at 10:45 the Hampton Roads and RVA (Richmond) MINIs are headed to Saude Creek for lunch. If anyone is going from the area please do two things 1) RSPV on the Hampton Roads site - (they need a head count) and PM me and let me know if I can catch a ride one way. (I will need to confirm a ride for Sunday by this Wednesday, otherwise I'll need to make alternate pick up arrangements and likely won't be able to make this event! Link to event on Hampton Roads FB: HR MINI Saude Vineyards link Link to event on RVA MINIs FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/155325488545329/?ti=icl&hc_location=ufi

Enjoyed meeting up with everyone today! Especially the post lunch drive, when the weather was a little more co-operative, the roads were great. Enjoyed my "free" wine-tasting at the vineyard, too! Thanks for all the efforts put into organizing and pre-running and making sure it all went smoothly .. see y'all again soon!

Thanks for the clarification .. see you tomorrow!

Maybe it's just me .. but in the first thread one place indicates 9:30 .. the other 10am .. please clarify which it is. (I did see the note that the schedule was "pushed back" 30 minutes, but pushed back can mean pushed back (back on the clock) from 10a to 9:30 or it can mean pushed back as in later from 9:30 to 10 .. ) I've got an hour+ drive to the meet up spot and though I'm still leaning toward meeting at the lunch spot, if it's not raining in the AM (fingers crossed) I don't want to miss you by 30 minutes .. sorry for the confusion and thanks in advance for the clarification!

Do not wait for me at Starbucks ... depending on the weather I may plan to meet up at the lunch spot instead.

I can't help but laugh at this one. It could otherwise imply that poorly behaved children *do not* need to be accompanied by an adult (a la let 'em run amok!) See ya Sunday!!

I've got it penciled in .. and thanks Erica for cross-posting .. I had seen it in a mass email a few weeks ago but had forgotten. I'm not 100% certain yet, but should know in the next week. Somebody point me to a link to RSVP on this? Thanks!

As an update to the Ship to Portland idea, there is a sign up list from Facebook here: Transport to Portland interest on Facebook There is sufficient interest to get a truck out of Atlanta, still hoping we can get one closer than that. Put your name on the google doc link or PM me directly; if I get a half dozen other MINIs I'll start making some phone calls. The individual heading up the Atlanta transport is also in contact with the drop off MINI dealer in Portland so that part of the process should be but a formality.

Since being in Orlando / Tallahassee / New Orleans in the middle of the summer holds no appeal to me, I'd consider shipping my MINI to Portland and doing that route .. anybody else? (and if anyone hears of anyone organizing a transport truck to the PNW from the east coast, please post details / contact info. Can't consider the ship & fly without the details. Thanks!

How appropriate .. a MINI for each MILE ... And glad to see that we got enough shirt orders for a 2nd run .. thanks, y'all! And thanks to Craig and Lona for the photos! I had a great time acknowledging the heros of our country on their special day ..

What's the status on the 2nd run? I hope people interested were contacting you direct, Laura, so that there's enough (which it wouldn't look like based on thread replies!) .. if not enough not sure if the deadline can be extended another week - 10 days so that anybody too busy with Thanksgiving and Black Friday might now start thinking about that MINI person they just need one more stocking stuffer for .. (I'm tryin'!) Thanks! PS If you are able to extend the deadline, maybe Edit Post # 1 that indicates the deadline has past and note the new deadline .. ?