National Rally meet up place..Ideas ?

[mrfuni]

PINK ROOM !!!! NO WAY.... I didn't sign up for this!... Dave...Couple of hotel suggestions please ....

[coacha]

No, no...pink room is a joke. There is no such room Joe, honest. It is more like fuchsia.

[mrfuni]

David...

There's been some chatter in the National Rally thread under "I'm coming from the east." If the Florida group is going to meet up at your place, then we need to do some planning on the trip from there. How many miles to ride each day, hotels, etc. Then there's the ride home to think about.

Appreciate your thoughts and always willing to help.

Regards..Joe

[trosco]

Hi, I hope this is the right spot that CoachA referred me to??? This is sort of for Coach A and Jim (Mister Funny?) but also for everyone that might join along the way. My Name is T. Ross Chess, I'm a newbie (#01045), I live in Jacksonville, FL. My cell is 252-315-4286 & email is Trosco@aol.com and I am setting up coming to the National Rally. I will be traveling alone and I'd like to join the group that is starting in Florida, running up to TN to pick up others and so on. I read all 3 pages of this and I sort of understand what is planned. I used to live in IA so am familiar with much of route. I'm retired. I can leave anytime, take as long going and coming as is needed and have a couple Iron butt patches so can also do the long days if it's needed. I have a daughter in eastern IA that I may visit on way home and may go to the June 26, 27, 28 SCRC Ridge-Runner rally in Johnson TN on the way back also. Anyones welcome to join that plan if you'd like. Sounds like the FL meet up location is Lake City with the plan to leave for TN from there Thursday morning? The I-10/I-75 interchange is a hour from me so I could get there as early in the morn on Thursday as needed and meet up with you two there? Next meet up looks like north side of Chattanooga TN. Counting the 70 miles I'll do to get to interchange that would make it a 500 mile all interstate day which is no problem. After that my plan would be to follow along, behave politely, drive carefully and get to know folks. So that's what I have figured out so far.
Jim, I am a "planner" also so I would love to have all the details and I also have gotten burned taking the approach of "I'll just catch a motel somewhere when I get tired" so I like the idea of a specific goal each day tied to where we stay that night!
CoachA, I leave late next week to ride the Gulf coast to New Orleans, then Natchez Trace Pkwy to Memphis and a visit to Nashville. It might be possible for me to run down to St Aug to meet you and friends on that Wednesday but I won't know till after this weekend? Enough for now? Thanks all

[mrfuni]

trosco...

Nice to meet you. My name is Joe (mrfuni ..long Italian name) and welcome aboard. Looks like we'll be leaving Lake City Friday morning with the first stop in Cleveland TN (407 miles) to meet up with Dave. From there, we'll probably split the riding up with 3 500 mile days to Custer.

I am also a planner and would like to have a nice clean bed and a hot shower waiting for me at each stop. Nothing special, just clean and comfortable.

I'm waiting for Dave to jump in to coordinate the planning. Stay tuned and watch the thread for more information.

You are welcome to join us for the Helen GA ride in a couple of weeks.... Joe

[Todd]

So are you guys planning to superslab it all the way????

[blowndodge]

Whats the matter todd? Superslob doesn't like Superslab???? Superflab?

[mrfuni]

Blowndodge what are you doing here? Aren't you on the left coast ???

Todd...Coach can't leave until Friday so with 1500 miles in 3 days, we'll probably have to interstate it to Custer. The ride back may take a different route, we haven't gotten that far yet :)

[Todd]

Yeah, what the hell is BD doing here ??? ???

I have a route that is about 1/2 interstate and half normal highway roads...guess we will play it by ear.

[coacha]

If you all need to leave earlier, I can see what I can do but it would mean my wife would miss out on a paid inservice deal and I'd have to take a sick day, which isn't a big deal. Let me know what you all want to do. We could leave around 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, but that would just get us up into GA before get gets too dark.

[mrfuni]

Coach...

We can do it with an early Friday morning take off. I've been working on the maps and it looks good if we spend Friday night in Cleveland (that's TN not OH). I've got the trip broken up between state roads and interstate, averaging about 500 miles a day for 3 days. Like the Elkins WV trip, it'll mean a 6:30 am start and a dinner time destination each travel day. When I finalize the maps, I'll get them up to you for your consideration. I also have hotels along the way, and once the route is decided we can start making reservations.

I would also like to plan a northern and southern route for the return trip. We can check the extended forecast from Custer to decide which way we want to go. No sense riding in rain (or through tornados) if we can avoid it, without adding extra miles to the trip.

If anyone has an opinion or has been working on the maps, I'm open to suggestions. For those who are going to Helen, we can kick around ideas over a cold one. :)

[coacha]

Sounds good. Maybe we can take in some different states on the way back to add to our maps?

I have your bottle of Helen wine waiting to be picked up on the 22nd. Picked it out just for you my friend.

[davidjones1]

Hi to all, looking forward to seeing all here at my place in June, Joe you are right we will have to do at least the five hundred miles per day to make it in three days it shows to be 1467miles for my place to Custer, I hate to say that I have not had a lot of time to look over routes but will soon, I would like to make sure that all have the best ride and sees as much of the country side as possible, making this a memory not just a sore a$$, so I would like to plan a couple of side trips in the right direction just to break up the super slab white line fever so all whom plan to join us please put in your 2cents and what you would like to get out of the ride there and back,
ride safe.

[coacha]

I don't care how we do it...just make it get here sooner will ya? Come on.

[mrfuni]

Dave..Looks like we need to compare notes....errr...I mean maps :)