and we will get you a bath and a hot shower and then we go.

About 4.5 hrs to Grand Junction area for the Thursday overnight. I have been stirring up business in KC, no takers yet, hope to have some.

Depending on how you and Gary drive, it will be right at 9 hrs from KC, gain an hour, with one gas / potty stop.

See you soon.

JPS

 

No doubt it will take 9 hrs or less The plan is to leave early on Wednesday. Get half way across Kansas at least And arrive in Denver with time for that shower on Thursday. I'm ready Can I pack yet?

Lois

 

Scottinbend
I'll PM you when the date gets closer, and give you my cell and home number, and thanks, I hate making that drive by myself,

Sandie

 

Cool ! I just reserved my room last night. I hope more can meet up. I am in contact with the Redwoods MINI club about driving down together also.

 

I was just wondering if anyone is as crazy as me, and thinking about driving to Vegas from Indiana (or close by)??? If there is anyone like me out there, do you want to caravan/drive together???

 

Driving from St Louis. Is that close enough? I'll be meeting up with the Denver crowd on Thursday afternoon. Let me know if you want to join us.

Lois

 

Lois, I'm not sure how much further/closer KC is to Denver, but with the cruise control set to 5 over the speed limit, it took me about 8 hours from Lincoln, NE to Denver.

MiniRacer_17, it's not THAT bad a drive. I recently drove a classic Mini from Cleveland to Vegas in 3 days. 1st night in Omaha, 2nd in Vail (Denver would have been a better idea in retrospect) and 3rd in Vegas. Microsoft Street and Trips claimed that it was faster to go through Salt Lake City than Denver, but I already knew the way via Denver.

 

Last year Zied from REMA, and others from Northern Cal, and from Washington met up in Fresno, and we headed out from there. I'm going to contact Zied to see if he is doing the same thing this year.
Brad

 

Last year I met NorCal Minis at Eastbay MINI and then we drove to fresno to meet up with everyone else, I was hoping to find someone to make the first leg of the drive with, if not I'll meet ya anywhere anytime Just name the place I'll be there.

Sandie

 

This is my probable route http://maps.google.com/maps?q=bend,o...vegas,nv&hl=en. Although I can be flexible on it.

 

Let me know if you guys come down 395, I'm in Bishop, about 1/2 way between Reno and Vegas. A nice windy road is 168 east out of Big Pine. Would cut out the Death Valley section though, but also saves about an hour.

Nik

 

DOES ANYONE NEED A CO-PILOT FROM DENVER???? I work at the MINI dealership & don't own a MINI yet.... :( The dealership won't allow cars to be taken out of state.
Please get in touch if anyone has an idea!

T H A N K S !!!

 

Be advised: this is last year's thread!

FWIW: A bunch of folks in SoCal will be caravanning to AMVIV 4 (March 2007) starting in LA county around 10AM Thursday morning, March 22nd, 2007. A meetup near the outlets at Barstow like last year would be cool.

_Dave_

 

Anyone coming through Oklahoma, we will be meeting at the dealership on Wednesday the 21st at around 8:30 -9ish (haven't pinned down the exact time). I am not sure on who all is coming this year... So I don't know how many of us there will be!!

 

We hope to meet up with a few on the way, but we are leaving Sat. the 17th and hope to arrive Tues. sometime.

FL to Lake Charles, LA -- Sat. est. 13 hours

Lake Charles to El Paso -- Sun. est. 13-14 hours

El Paso to Phx. -- Mon. est. 8-10 hours

Phx to Vegas -- Tue. est. 8-9 hours

This is not set in stone but just a rough est.
I chose this route to avoid any bad weather along the way, I really don't like the idea of getting stuck along the way because of snow or ice.

Anybody heading that way drop me a PM

See you there.