2015 West Coast meet

Jimbo, Slofuzz,(AKA Scott) keep me in the loop...

Wow, Vince, I was just about to post an inquiry! Great minds think alike. My bro called me today to find out if plans were set for SLO. I know Ted's looking forward to round two with the raccoon...

That damn dirty rodent...

Terry, can't wait to hit some of those wineries again.....

 

 

Just sent SloFUZZ a text regarding this year's cruise! 

Made contact with Scott and he's on it! More details to follow. In the meantime, here's a video from the SOC West Coast Cruise from a couple of years ago! 

 

 

I see that Theron moved this topic up from Spyder events.

Does that mean that you're coming this year, Theron?

Awsome SOC gathering Jim

Good to hear from you guys. I'm in as usual. Chrissy is living in Maryland and will attend if she can get time off.

 

Larry

Looking forward to it if the dates are cool with BOSS lady... Nice to have kids in college not worrying about their next event... Lili and I are IN when we get this settled!

 

Speedster "D" just waiting!

Annual SOC event checklist:

 

Determine dates.

Decide on location.

Pick hotel.

Find new restaurant.

To golf or not to golf?!

Friday night event.

Order Vince's Oban.

Cruise destinations.

Pray for great weather!

 

I better get crackin'

Scott, in my opinion, Since you are the local with the knowledge of the area, I defer the location, hotel, restaurant to you, unless someone has an opinion on these things.

Early June seems to be the best weather wise.

You can make it easy by keeping the above, same as last year since the hotel was so good to us and the restaurant is within staggering distance to the hotel.

The Oban of course is a necessity.

I will do the raffle as in past years...

 

 

 

and we all know GERD has no trouble getting back to the hotel from the restaurant

 

Re GERRRDDD's picture above: That grin is just scary.

We can talk about Gerd all we want because it's tax time and he's too busy to check in on us.  I LOVE this time of the year!

I just found out that the San Luis Obispo concours is Sunday May 31

featured cars are Cadillac and VW.

Might be a good weekend to schedule our meet, should be plenty of air-cools

around....

Two thumbs up for that weekend. That is a good car show not to be missed.

That would be pretty cool! If we can get the block of rooms we need at the hotel. 

If we can get that weekend, I would for sure be able to make it.  Would be fun to finally meet you all.

 

Stephen

 

I met this group for the first time last year. I have to admit that the initiation process was terrifying but after several hours I realized that I was safe.

 

Rusty, we're NEVER safe...

 

Speedster "D" just waiting to hear! get me a freaking date!

hey now be nice u monkeys

 

Like I said earlier.  He is so busy during tax time that he doesn't even have time to turn on his caps lock!  :-)

LOL TROY. CANT MAKE THIS YEARS EVENT U GUYS HAVE FUN. WILL CHECK IN SOMETIME IN MARCH

 

I like end of May. I am not worry about rain   Beginning of June usually they have the Steve Mc Queen thing in Chino which I would like to go one of these days if it doesn't conflict with the SLO event.

HEY GERD!!!  SURPRISE US ALL AND JOIN US IN CARLISLE IN MAY.  MUSBJIM CAN PUT YOU IN HIS LUGGAGE SO YOU CAN SAVE THE TICKET PRICE.

Okay,,,,here's where we're at.  If we want to go back to the old way of staying in a motel setting with the parking lot as our gathering place, I might be able to find something in SLO, but not likely.  Rooms are at a premium that weekend which is probably due to the concourse.

 

The Quality Suites had very few rooms left for that weekend and the price was over $200/ night.  If we are good with the following weekend (no Concourse), we can get the rooms we need at a price bump of $2 a room ($171/nt).

 

The Concourse is pretty cool, but the last time our gathering coincided with it only a handful of people actually stayed for the show.  Not to mention that it's on Sunday which is when most folks are headed home.

 

I've blocked 30 rooms for now at the Quality Suites (25 Kings/5 Doubles) for the weekend of June 5-7.  If you guys want to make another weekend, that's fine, but I don't have any other contacts to help us get a decent number of rooms for a good price on the busy weekend.  By blocking 30 rooms I was hoping to avoid what happened last year with not having enough rooms.  They typically only allow a block of 25 rooms at a time.

 

Please let me know what you want to do ASAP.  I told Quality Suites I would let her know by this week what we planned to do.

 

If the consensus is to go the end of May, we're gonna have to do some decision making on what type of hotel/motel venue we want.  If we want to stay with the first weekend in June, I'll start moving forward with finding routes/ lunch and dinner venues, fun Friday events, etc.

 

PS  Some of us discussed golfing the day before our gathering or the day after (Thurs or Mon).  If anyone is still interested, let me know and I will set that up as well!

 

 

I don't have an interest in the concourse. I'm going to meet other Speedster/Spyder owners from the SOC, taking some really cool drives, eating good food, drinking cold beverages, and hanging out.

Our typical first weekend in June suits me fine. Especially if we can get a block of rooms at a fair price. The hotel we've been staying at the last couple of years works out great.

 

Scott, let me know if i can help with anything! 

I agree with Robert and Jim, the first weekend in June is fine with me.

First weekend in June is good with me.

 

Larry

 

I prefer the first weekend of June. I like a good car show but prefer to drive around in my car, with like-minded knuckleheads in their cars, to various vistas in the SLO area. I like staying at the quality suites because they have Firestone dba on tap for free during happy hour which my brother and I consume while hanging out with other like-minded knuckleheads, talking about Ted's adventures with the rabid raccoon and Teby's "intimate moment" with the "hot back in the day" lead singer chick from that band Berlin (?)
But, no golf for me. Dodge ball? Hell yeah.

Darn. Out again this year. i have the most beautiful ride in America bicycle ride around Lake Tahoe that weekend. Ride is for leukemia and lymphoma.

 

I would und much rather drive my car. But it is for a good cause.

 

Stephen

 

 

I've made that ride a couple times for TNT and it is a beautiful ride.  I built my own single-speed last summer and that's the only bike I ride now.  Maybe one weekend we can all meet in Tahoe and make the run in our cars.

Terry Nuckels, in past years, has organized a drive around lake Tahoe called the "Tour De Hoe."  There is talk about it every year, but maybe this is the year it will happen again.  Pretty much one of the most beautiful drives anywhere in the world.

I'm still sad that I missed last years run, but I'm hoping to grace you all with my presence this year! And the first weekend in June should work just fine  

 

Chrissy

Chrissy - it would be great to see your smiling face at this year's cruise. Hope you can make it out from D.C.!

 

We need you to lead us during Friday Night Margarita Madness...

 

I'm in....... XLR this year, I need to keep up with you characters in the canyons