Carlisle 2014 Hotel Reservations are open !

That was slick!  Thanks Alan!

Yes it was, very easy, all reserved! Thanks Alan!

All Booked! Easy Peasy!

~WB

Done!  I'm gettin' psyched already! 

Booked and ready to roll.  Thanks Alan....good job.

Hoss

Thanks, Alan.

We are booked.

Bob

John - Have you checked with the Fairfield in Christiansburg yet?  I assume that's still our default waypoint, right?  I will have one or two (or maybe more) of my Cars & Coffee buddies caravaning with me this year.

Lane, yes I have booked the Fairfield in Christiansburg for the Wednesday before and the Sunday after Carlisle.  No conflict to report at this point as there was two years ago with the "prom night" crowd.  

Booked! Looking forward to re-connecting with all my knucklehead SOC buddies!

We're in! Thanks X2 Alan.  That was too easy

Booked.

Thanks Alan

Thanks Al!

This was the perfect antidote to the eight inches of snow I cleared yesterday!

THANK YOU ALAN!!!!!

THAT WAS THE MOST PAINLESS REGISTRATION I HAVE EVER USED. Now I have to remember how to turn off all-caps. 

Glenn and I will see you in May.

Thanks again

Paul

Everyone, glad all the usual suspects are coming!

Lane, don't work on your car in the parking lot! Wait until you get home!

But Danny, Lane always must work on his car in the parking lot! How else is he supposed to mess it up so you can fix it?

Don't you go messin' with tradition.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........  

Count me in on the madness!

Alan,  thanks for setting that up using the website could not have been easier.

Barbara and I are signed in for Thurs,Fri,and Sat.Looking forward to good weather and a good time with everyone.

Joel

Youz guys are amazing.....freezing temps and Carlisle is on your minds :~)

We're using Carlisle to forget the freezing temps, Alan.

I count a dozen or a baker's dozen rooms gone already. I wonder if 50 will be enough this year!

We are experiencing record cold here in Tellico Village.  I was out running errands a little while ago and the temperature had only made it to 14 degrees. We will gradually warm up to the fifties by the weekend but will have one to two inches of rain.  That will wash the salt away so maybe I can take a drive in the Red Man.  Oh yes, and we had four power failures this morning, fortunately none for very long.  Come on Spring!!!

Our hotel reservation is in!!

I'm booked at Marriott!

John:

How about being without power for seven days and nights?  That's what we went through over Christmas, and it was interesting.  Good thing we have two woodstoves in our house, and lots of candles.  Getting water was a problem, though.  We survived...

Hoss, how long did it take to thin your blood once you moved south?  For those that don't know Hoss used to live near Chicago.

And IIRC was born in upstate New York.

Speaking from experience of moving south and then returning, you seem to acclimate from the move South in no time- you really don't notice it since summer and fall go all through the winter and it only gets cold (like into the 20's F at night ) for a week or two and daytime temps are usually over 40°F ( We're talking the Hilton Head/Savannah area, here).

We were down there for almost ten years.  The coming back part really sucks.  Even mildly cold days (like 45°F ) are tough to handle the first winter and you find the house isn't comfortable below 70°.  The next winter you're back into the groove, can cope with any outside temp within reason - which for me is anything over zero - and can live with the house at 68-69° days and 66-67° night.  I can't easily tolerate inside temps lower than that because of aches in my extremities.

But the biggest thing you notice on returning back north is that the cold and ice and snow drive you indoors all winter.  We were out and about WAY more in Beaufort in the winter than we can muster up here and that's what we miss the most.  Heck, there wasn't a week that went by in the winter there when I couldn't drive Pearl and got reports back from lots of people of seeing me here and there.  Up here, she sits for 3-4 months all winter.  Bleack!

Oh!  And we found out why all of our neighbors had gas heat:  Down below about 40°F the efficiency of a heat pump trails off dramatically and below about 30°F they don't do diddly, so the system kicks in "Emergency Heat Strips" which look exactly like huge toaster elements and cause your electric meter to spin at 30,000 rpm and then blow off the wall.  About the time you get your meter back in operation you get your electric bill and find that those heat strips can cost you $200-$300 bucks a month!!

Rather than upgrade the air handler to one with gas heat like our neighbors had, we sold the house.

But don't despair, all you people from the "Great White North"......Just wait until about August and then ask those Southerners about not leaving their homes because it's too hot outside to stand it (or they have unhealthy air advisories because of the heat, humidity and/or smog).  You might also notice that there are very, very few car shows in the South in the summer.......Plus, anyone with the means gets the heck out of town and head to the much cooler mountains or back up North.

and now, Back to the Carlisle Hotel Thread, already in progress......

Marty, the so called "blood thinning", which in my case is as much due to aspirin and fish oil, is a gradual process.  I don't know if I could give you a reasonable answer as to how long it took.  I do know that standing in the freezing temperatures in New York City for last year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was a real test.  So was the record cold snap we are just beginning to recover from.  

I sure hope there is a spot at the bar for the "I used to own one (actually 3) of those". Mech'Burg room booked.

Any takers to swap out some driving time in yo' bucket with a stoked Audi R8 ??

Still have BIG BIRD, but she is resting up for her cross country trip after the PCA parade in Monterey.

Tom, I am sure I can convince Sandy.    Keep it under 100 and I will do the same. Is the R8 manual? My seat is raised 1.5 inches but I think you should be ok.

R8 is a six speed manual V8 with 420 ponies, all wheel drive

You're coming this year, Tom?  Great!

The last two years I have attended Quattro de Mayo (an Audi event) in the NC Mountains in early May. I thought it was time to witness with my own eyes Hoss drinking too much Oban and proceeding to bay at the moon. Yes I am planning on attending Carlisle again. I promise to behave like a good "lantern rouge"

FYI:  I don't like scotch.  "Baying at the moon"....well that's another story.  

Well, after the cold this winter, Carlisle will seem like the Caribbean.

I've seen Hoss drink beer, bourbon, and Irish whiskey, but never scotch.  Given that he now lives in Tennessee, I wouldn't put the occasional nip of white lightnin' past him.  Heck, for all we know he has a still in his garage.

Nope, no still on the premises.  However, since 'shine is now legal in Tennessee, taxed, of course, distilleries are popping up all over the place.  We were in Gatlinburg for Christmas and went to a tasting, about a dozen thimble-sized portions of straight and flavored lightnin'.  Hic!  It made walking the gift store circuit more bearable.  Women be shopping (per Reggie Warrington).  

A small correction:  I did take a sip of OBAN at one Carlisle event to see what all the fuss was about.  Well, it's scotch alright, but pretty nice as they go.