Wondering about Carlisle 2018

Carlisle 2018 is well into the planning stages.                                                                   

Bruce Stumpp has handed over the reigns to Cory Drake for Carlisle 2018. I've contracted again with Courtyard by Marriott, Camp Hill Pa. for our lodging and Hospitality Suite. Bill Drayer has again reserved our Thursday night dining venue at the Golf Club.  Here's hoping that the over attendance and Saturday's show field participation exceeds past years ! 

Additional details will start to emerge as usual after the first of the new year ~

Looking forward to this.

Carlisle can't come soon enough.  Lord wiling, this will be our 11th in a row.

Wow Jack, I am trying to make it No TWO... Hoping I have a right seater with me this year and maybe Phil will have that Spyder spin it's web all the way to Carlisle so I can see that creation in the flesh  

This will be 14 for me, Ray, and Jack and I are amateurs compared to some of the guys like Bruce Stumpp and Alan Merklin.

Well I thought we would have all sorts of manufacturers there last year but only Carey and his boys were there. It was nice to see their products and I had a nice chat with them at the restaurant on Thursday night. 

Also, Last year my car had an issue so I had to use my DD to get there but this year ...

I am hoping that Sabrina will not disappoint me  

Yeah, it’s kinda sad how the kit/replica/DIY side has shrunk in recent years.

I've been going to Carlisle for 40 plus years .... since Moby Dick was a minnow ~   ~    ~ 

Now that is a fishy story

I was there for the first SOC gathering, but I’ve missed a few years, and I will miss in 2018.  

Sounds like a new award category: Most number of days at the showfield ever, or something like that.  And our organizers are a team, it's Cory AND Jeni, BTW.  And they are very much on top of it, Dave, and all posted up every last detail, with 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was . . . um, er, slipped a cog there . . .

  Hope to see you there!!

David, you’ll be relieved to know that Jeni’s been the brains of the operation. 

She’s posted all of the details on an independent thread.

From what I remember it's no surprise that one Canadian doesn't remember who's in charge this year! Can I get a titter?

DannyP posted:

From what I remember it's no surprise that one Canadian doesn't remember who's in charge this year! Can I get a titter?

David doesn’t care who’s in charge, as long as there’s a windshield in the auction...

DannyP posted:

From what I remember it's no surprise that one Canadian doesn't remember who's in charge this year! Can I get a titter?

Don't know what a "titter" is Danny but my interest  last year was about what changes might occur in 2018 not who might be running the show. I knew full well that Cory and Jeni were taking on the task and it looks like their doing a great job. 

He was making a tongue in cheek comment about your, ahem, minor overindulgence last year.  All in good fun.

I vaguely recall being rather snockered that night myself.  Or was it the previous night?  I can’t remember. 🍻🥃🍻🥃

Don't know what a "titter" is - sounds like fun.

IS VINCE OR MUSBJIM GOING?

Jim is definitely going.

Now I wonder if the writer or I mean the story writer is coming ?  @Stan Galat 

I even offered to have him come for one night and bunk in the other bunk last year ... he was no show  

IaM-Ray posted:

Now I wonder if the writer or I mean the story writer is coming ?  @Stan Galat 

Nope. Wrong time of the year.

President Stan has chosen to spend most of his time in office working for the betterment of the people of Stanistan.  However, he has designed to mix among us commoners by joining us in the mountains in the fall.  I believe that to be partly because the altitude reminds him of Mount Olympus from whence he came.  Should you wish to meet POTUSOS, please join us in September.

Yeah, I’m hoping for a job in his cabinet - the liquor cabinet.

I sometimes wonder why a bunch of us have never gotten together somewhere warm in the dead of the Northern winters.  I know that some of the NJRCC folks used to do the Dominican Republic for a while.

It might be cool for a bunch of us to just happen to go to the same resort somewhere like, oh, I dunno......St. Barts or Anguilla, or....oooooh...Wait a minute, those places won't be ready til 2019.  OK, maybe a Caribbean Cruise or Disney World's EPCOT Garden Festival or something.   Even a place in Vero Beach would be good in about another month.

Actually, ANY place over 75F would look good about now......  Friggin South Pole is 9F warmer than me right now!

"However, he has designed to mix among us commoners by joining us in the mountains in the fall."  Obviously "designed" should be "deigned."

The DR was great and all inclusive but after going there 8 times they got way out of my price range

Ray, Stan is running an HVAC business. And so he doesn't run said business into the ground, spring is his VERY busy season. He really needs to be home in case of an emergency, so he's pretty much on-call all spring and summer. 

We all wish this weren't so, but it is. The fall is when he can get away. All the AC issues are worked out by then, and the heat isn't on yet. It's just how it is.