BG 2014.

[cvette98pacecar]

With BG 2014 being less than a year away what would you like to see and do?
IMO, I think we should get out of the seminars and start enjoying our cars.
There is no reason that we cannot have seminars between 9 and 12 than a cruise event between 12 and 5.
Thoughts?

[VetteVet]

I'm for that. Just keep Frank (BoostedMaxPSI) away from me out on the road. He's a wildman!!

Jep

[gbrtng]

Need something to keep the wives busy - Wifey gets bored easily and decided since nothing was offered for the women that she was not interested in going. So we didn't.
All I really wanted was some way for the women to get together and do girlie stuff.
Like a list at registration with names and phone numbers - how hard would that have been?

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Nothing wrong with shaking it up a bit. I'd like to see some of the distileries. Maybe a road tour to a couple??? I think it's been done before??? Maybe lunch at a rib joint along the way??

[Fully Vetted]

More cruises. The 3 mile jaunt to eat Mexican food just wasn't enough.

[XfireZ51]

Nothing wrong with shaking it up a bit. I'd like to see some of the distilaries. Maybe a road tour to a couple??? I think it's been done before??? Maybe luch at a rib joint along the way??

Sounds like fun!

[-=Jeff=-]

With BG 2014 being less than a year away what would you like to see and do?
IMO, I think we should get out of the seminars and start enjoying our cars.
There is no reason that we cannot have seminars between 9 and 12 than a cruise event between 12 and 5.
Thoughts?

When I planned a NCM visit with my local club, I ended up with only 5 cars.. Mainly because most decided not to go due to no plant tour..

Anyway, we spend the morning at the NCM, ate lunch in the Cafe at the NCM and then took a nice cruise that afternoon, it was a 2-3 hour drive on 2 lane back roads, winding and lot of fun.. We got to our location and ate dinner, enjoyed the scenery and then on the return trip it was a direct straight drive, again a lot of fun.. I put close to 1000 miles ont he car in 3 days.. drive from Chicago to BG and back as well as the driving in BG.

I might have the info from that cruise.. it was a blast

[-=Jeff=-]

Nothing wrong with shaking it up a bit. I'd like to see some of the distilaries. Maybe a road tour to a couple??? I think it's been done before??? Maybe luch at a rib joint along the way??

Yes, I seem to remember that was one of cruises that the NCM has planned out..

[JThomas]

How about something scenic in Nashville as an all day event? Backroads cruise there, do lunch and come back early afternoon. I'll even step out there I say I will lead the thing, I just need lead time to plan a route, but I volunteer. :cheers:

[-=Jeff=-]

The cruise I had done was to to Barkley State Park

120 miles to get there, return trip was 95 miles

lots of fun

[FU]

The Nashville day tour also the distillery tour sound's great.
I'd like to try and get into the road race course and have som fun too.

[Gunny]

More cruises. The 3 mile jaunt to eat Mexican food just wasn't enough.

Yes, but you never know when you will run into fellow Texans :mrgreen:

[cvette98pacecar]

Need something to keep the wives busy - Wifey gets bored easily and decided since nothing was offered for the women that she was not interested in going. So we didn't.
All I really wanted was some way for the women to get together and do girlie stuff.
Like a list at registration with names and phone numbers - how hard would that have been?

That is an excellent Idea. There is no reason that we cannot plan a shopping day and a spa day for our significant others. If we get our wives and significant others in contact with each other they can figure out what they want to do.

When I planned a NCM visit with my local club, I ended up with only 5 cars.. Mainly because most decided not to go due to no plant tour..

Anyway, we spend the morning at the NCM, ate lunch in the Cafe at the NCM and then took a nice cruise that afternoon, it was a 2-3 hour drive on 2 lane back roads, winding and lot of fun.. We got to our location and ate dinner, enjoyed the scenery and then on the return trip it was a direct straight drive, again a lot of fun.. I put close to 1000 miles ont he car in 3 days.. drive from Chicago to BG and back as well as the driving in BG.

I might have the info from that cruise.. it was a blast

Jeff, Ron Thompson and I logged over 2000 miles last week. It was some of the funnest drives that I have completed in my life. I do believe we would get more participants if we drove the cars more and sat in the auditorium at the NCM less.

How about something scenic in Nashville as an all day event? Backroads cruise there, do lunch and come back early afternoon. I'll even step out there I say I will lead the thing, I just need lead time to plan a route, but I volunteer. :cheers:

Joe, I had talked to the parks director in Nashville. We could have had an event at the Parthenon in Nashville where we would have been able to park our cars on the grass in front of the Parthenon and take pictures and tour the museum.

Frank, I do believe a Day trip to a Distillery would be a wonderful idea.

Another great idea is finding a children's hospital and having a half of a day event for the Children.

[Paul in SC]

Robert,

Those tours and events would be a plus with my wife as well. She is not interested in going to a spa or shopping so keeping active with events is more appealing to her. She would especially like driving as well.

I didn't attend this year because of comitments, but there was also no entusiasm to go from my wife to make me want to rework scheduling.

Paul

[gbrtng]

Yes, but you never know when you will run into fellow Texans :mrgreen:
takes one to know one ...

frack - no Lone Star State flag smilies - so imagine one ...

[FU]

Another great idea is finding a children's hospital and having a half of a day event for the Children.

Excellent suggestion

[Fully Vetted]

Yes, but you never know when you will run into fellow Texans :mrgreen:

Isn't that the truth. We are all over the planet.

[Tony Davila]

Isn't that the truth. We are all over the planet.
And...in lower Alabama:-D

[JThomas]

More cruises. The 3 mile jaunt to eat Mexican food just wasn't enough.

For the record, that was not the scheduled lunch road tour. The tour was scheduled for 12:00 noon. I showed up to participate and no one was there. I asked a couple of people if they wanted to go with lunch with me, they asked where, and I said I was going to a Mexican Restaurant.

I then had fourteen people follow me to the restaurant and enjoyed every minute of it. :cheers:

[Paul Workman]

For the record, that was not the scheduled lunch road tour. The tour was scheduled for 12:00 noon. I showed up to participate and no one was there. I asked a couple of people if they wanted to go with lunch with me, they asked where, and I said I was going to a Mexican Restaurant.

I then had fourteen people follow me to the restaurant and enjoyed every minute of it. :cheers:

Apparent by that experience, Joe, it seems like tours would be something lots more would be interested in! I'm for that too, but I still enjoy the new tech developments e.g., like the Ram dual disc clutches (last year), etc.

Marc Haibeck and I joined a BBQ and ice-cream tour a couple years ago, in the middle of the GS crowd. Talk about two wolves in a pack of beauty queens! :sign10:

[WARP TEN]

.....Frank, I do believe a Day trip to a Distillery would be a wonderful idea.....

Frank and Robert-- The last time I was in BG was I believe in 2006 or 2007. On Thursday there was a roughly 1-1/2 hour drive to a distillery with lunch on the way, then at the distillery a tour (very interesting) and a small tasting. It was great fun and a nice drive. Can't remember the distillery but I can look it up, and also there are quite a few in that region...Bob

[gbrtng]

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