Hampton Roads Club Mini

Cooper Vineyards wants to advertise rally meeting points on their web site.  It is free advertising for us!!   I need leaders from different areas please.  I'll try to build us a little flyer on MSWord.  I am not sure how to post it yet.  But if you use the message section of this board and tell me you want the file, I can e-mail it to you as soon as I have it ready.

Here is how it works...

Cooper Vineyards opens at 11am.  We all want to get there around that time so the vineyards can stage our parking for us (they are really good at that).  There are two options we have been using.  Drive directly to the vineyard or take part in the curvy run we have been doing for years to get there.  
Curvy run start time 9:30 at Brusters Ice Cream on Staples Mill Road. Plan to be there by 9

So post a starting time and place so you can arrive at Bruster's by 9am or the Vineyards at 11am.

Suggested start points - I need volunteers with landmark, full address and wheels up time.

Crown Mini of Richmond , Broad Street Richmond,  wheels up 8:45am directly to Brusters Mike74JCW
Cracker Barrel at Power Plant Parkway in Hampton 7:30 wheels up, directly to Brusters.  Plan to be there at 7am SKARGO leader
Williamsburg
Southside/Va Beach Sears Parking lot - on Witchduck road next to 295. Wheels up 6:30 then meeting at Cracker Barrel Group  HANKFRAM leader
Smithfield Station on Church Street  Wheels up 6:45 then meeting at Cracker Barrel - Baby BMW
DC area
NC area
Name your own!!!



Don't feel shy about leading a group.  We all like to follow and we are all forgiving of messing up.  Messing up usually makes for better stories by the way.  It is fun to have a long line of MINIs following you.  If you plan to come, especially from a distance, post a starting landmark with full address and wheels up time.  Wheels up means you are telling people to be there in time to leave. (Experience has told me to give yourself an extra 1/2 hour cause no one seems to get there on time)(If you find you are ahead of schedule you can always go shopping at the Cotton Gin - Jimmy's Buffet group!)  If no one shows up, just come on way anyway.  Note you may want to plan your route to meet up with another group along the way.  The object is to get there, so don't plan fun drives that might hold you up.  

You can use Google Maps or Mapquest to plan the timing of your drives.

 Brusters Ice Cream
9101 W. Staples Mill Road
Richmond, VA 23228

Cooper Vineyards
13372 Shannon Hill Road
Louisa Va. 23093

Do I have my first leader?!  Tell me a starting time.  Might want to determine that after the Cracker Barrel time is determined.  I believe the address is the Old Blooms Parking Lot at Va Beach Blvd and Wichduck road?  Is that what you had in mind?

Dale, Kathy and I can handle the Penninsula group, so no worries there.
Hankfrum. Thanks for stepping up !  If you can arrange a meeting place and wheels up departure time from the Southside, that would be GREAT !  Plan to meet our Penninsula group at the Cracker Barrel, corner of Mercury Blvd. and Power Plant Parkway at a time we will set in the near future. We need to leave Hampton in time to reach Brewsters in Richmond by no later than 9am. It's going to be a LONG day. More to follow soon.

Damn just realized were supposed to be in richmond at 9. so we need to meet way earlier then that. im assuming well know about the hampton wheels up time by this weekend maybe? Then well set our time.

2FUN4ME, thanks for the PM!  I would be happy to lead the group from Crown MINI to Bruster's (only a couple of miles).

Is there anyone driving from the Stafford/fredericksburg area? We'd really like to be in a caravan this year!

Drive Planning.... All set up drives that I know of are on the first blog of this thread.  I am updating them as I hear of them.

Bottom line is for everyone to arrive at Bruster's in Richmond for wheels up at 9:30  if you want the fun drive.  Otherwise directly to the Vineyard's opening at 11am.



 

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