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The route is set for the first Eastern Iowa MINIs motoring event of 2009!

Our Second EIM River Views Run is planned for Saturday, April 25th. The drive kicks off at 9:15 am on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River in Clinton, IA. From there we cross the bridge into Illinois, traverse north along the river plain, and explore a few back roads east of Savanna, IL.

Our route then takes us up to Lookout Point in Mississippi Palisades State Park where we'll take a break and enjoy the panoramic view below. We back track just a bit to catch up with some superb twisties east of the park as we head north and eventually find ourselves stopping for lunch at Charlie's Place in Hanover, IL at high noon.

The rolling countryside continues as we motor north, pass by Galena, momentarily slip over the state line into Wisconsin, and then head back toward the river and Dubuque. Our final planned activity is a visit to the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium at the Port of Dubuque. We should arrive at the Aquarium around 2:00 pm.

Detailed route information including times, waypoint coordinates, distances, street names, and descriptions of each leg of the drive, are in the file attached to this post.

Feel free to post, PM, or email me if you have any questions.

How sweet it will be to get out on the open road together. Hope you have room on your calendar to join us.

 

Looks like a great run really looking forward to this!!


Thanks for all the leg work Gary!

 

If you want a British flare to the end of the day the YorkShire Rose has a lot of great British food and candies in cable car square
http://www.dbq.com/yorkrose/

 

'ello gov'nors

I know long time no post. It's because I haven't even caught up with the '90's. Any how, I recently got an internet modem from the cable company just so I could play Nintendo Wii - Mario Kart on line w/o getting disconnected. For a while I was playing off of somebody's WI-FI connection but it proved to be unreliable. So I got hard wired. Anyway I might miss the River View Run due to my MINI being serviced. If they give me a MINI loaner I go but if its something else..whats the point. Or I'll change the maintenace date. Car needs to be tip top for MOTD '09 the Dragon you know.

P.S. 7 months, 13K miles and still no name.

 

Hope you can manage to work in our RVR drive.

So you're going to make it to MOTD? Cool. We will all want a full report! With pics!

 

up to 14 now!!!

 

Yep...great group! Hope the weather cooperates with us. *knocks on wood*

I'm adding this reminder that anyone who has a GMRS/FRS radio should bring it along with them to Clinton. There are several left-hand turns where it will be tough to get everyone through at once, and we're going to need to communicate to stay together.

 

HYPRBLU

 

15!

 

WOW Thats great to have 15 sighn up lets try for 20 looking forward to see everyone ,Mike

 

The weather will be perfect for the big kickoff of the '09 motoring season!
Saturday in Clinton:

Breezy. Mostly sunny. High in the mid 70s.

 

small chance of t-storms but heck rain wont even slow us down, thats what windshield wax is for!

 

Looks like the best chance is later in the day...hopefully we'll already be in Dubuque by then.

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

 

It was go good to see everyone,Great job Gary .

 

It was good to see everyone. Ill have to go through the photos soon, unfortunately Lisa's video got cut into by the car that couldn't wait but Ill post it anyways!

 

Gary, you need some kind of award for finding the most fun way to get from point A to point B. Thanks!!

 

What a fun time! Here are a few pictues:

http://picasaweb.google.com/deanman2...eat=directlink

 

GREAT TIME

.....GREAT PEOPLE

..........GREAT PLANNING

You've got the touch for finding the twisties Gary!

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/3591711...7617343367154/

Here are some pictures.

 

Here's my contribution to the picture collection:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmm57/s...7617358699854/

15 MINIs and 30 good friends -- what a smashing showing for our inaugural drive for 2009! Hope everyone had as much fun as I did!

Love your new MINI Mike (and the new sig you finally broke out ). I'm sure glad I don't have to keep it a secret any longer.

Many thanks to all of the picture takers, to Rob and Lisa for their expert sweeping, and to Larry and Pam for leading the pack to Hanover after getting separated (next time we'll remember to enforce the "at least one MINI in the rear view mirror" rule to avoid that).

The aquarium was impressive. I never knew river otters and catfish got that big in the Mississippi River.

Have a fun time at the Dragon David! And another thought -- High Plains Motoring is less than three weeks away.

 

Rob, thanks for getting your pics up on the website already.

 

Yep some photos are up in the EIM Gallery, didnt get around to posting here after I got them up.

 

I added a subset of my Flickr pics to the EIM website Gallery, since Rob already did the hard part of setting it up.

 

Thanks for a great time Gary!! My daughter loved it too!!

(Brian, check your private message(s))