Well the army gods say its time to pack up the mini's and head up the highway... my name is carol, and I am VP of Columbia SC M2C2.. Do you do runs near Fort Carson? We should be there sometime in Sept.. aww there goes going to Mickey meets Mini , but watch out colorado.. here we come..
If anyone has any suggestions on houses for rent in the area.. and anything you might want to share with me about Co.. i t would be greatly appreciated!

 

PM on the way

 

Oh, poor Colorado. they don't know what's coming, do they?

(Carson -- nice! You two are lucky, Carol)

 

September huh, just in time for our annual Yalla Yalla on October 18th.
Glad to have you join us out west. You'll enjoy the motoring and the mountains.

Chuck

 

lol.. ahh but Colorado will soon know.. its not overseas like we had hoped, but have to make the best of all situations..
What is yalla yalla??

 

And you will just miss MITM4 www.MINIsintheMountains.com and yes, Ft. Carson is on the route for many of our rides. Can you say "Tweat me to some Twisties II?"

There are great motoring roads in your part of the state and we are happy to introduce you to them...

Jonathan

JPS

 

The odd thing..., I had planned on motoring out for MiTM this year with M2C2 from Columbia... I am looking forward to meeting everyone as is my husband

 

Send me a PM. I am stationed at Ft. Carson, but I am heading out to Afghanistan next week. I can hook you up with a good realtor and give a lay down on the city.

 

Hey Everyone,

I am David, Carol's Husband. I am from Evergreen, Colorado, but havent' really been back to Colorado but once or twice since I graduated, am looking forward to coming back. Have spent time in the Springs, but not for about 20 years, so it will be very new to me as well.

Can't wait to meet you guys.

 

We going to miss you two!!!! Now I got reason to leave real early for MITM. Guess I will have to find someone to crash in Columbia after our all nighters runs, meet n eats and coffee! All I can say been there the past 3 years and the area is beautiful and lots of great drives. I usually do Pikes Peak, the Valley Gods etc on the way home from MITM cut across to 287 down thru OK to Amarrillo TX for some steak at Big Texan. I will see you kids next friday for some food throwing!

 

yeah you betcha Lucifer!!! Colorado has no idea what they are about to meet.. when mah mini family from columbia makes a roadtrip to the mountains! I am only hoping someone has my sense of humour and adventure

 

No humor here - air is too thin. Plenty of adventure though!

 

we have our own 'Western Dragon' to introduce you to. 32 miles, at altitude. Formidable.

Further, and depending on the weather, Mt. Evans road may still be open.....14,246 ft up, paved all the way, nekkid. Come check it out.

The Dragon has nothing on us. We surf asphalt at altitude.

JPS

 

That's not funny Chuck...

Welsh if you haven't been to the Springs in 20 years, you are in for shock!
Not necessarily bad, but a shock none the less.

And for some reason commuters to Ft. Carson are in a huge hurry. Maybe it's Peterson Air Field, or Shriever?

Bryan

 

and that is that fleas don't like it and mosquitoes can't levitate. So we have precious few of either....tell the dogs!

JPS

 

Told this to my Mississippi family members and they didn't believe me. I said we can go outside and actually sit on the deck without getting bit by skeeters!! No screens on our porches!

 

Our dogs will love no bugs, so will we. I've always missed the mountains, nowhere quite like them, it will definitely take getting used to the altitude again though...lol. I've heard that the Springs have grown like wildfire since I've gone, along with my town up in Evergreen.

 

Where are you going to work on Ft. Carson? My BDE is heading out and we have the new BDE along with DIV HQ coming here this summer.

 

Looks I'll be going to 2nd BCT Headquarters, I guess they are the ones just moving in up there when they redeploy from what I understand.

 

2BCT is currently in Iraq. They have been here for a while. It is 1BCT plus the DIV HQ that are moving here this summer. It is confusing. I was in 2-2 until we reflagged to 4-4. Right now you have 1BCT redeploying to Ft. Hood and then moving to Carson. 2BCT is in Iraq. 3BCT just got back from Iraq a few months ago and 4BCT is headed to Afghanistan.

Carson isn't ready for all of these units on post. There is new housing (which has AC) and new barracks for all of the troops. There aren't any new schools and the commissary is terrible.

Good luck with your move.

 

hm.. luckily we don't have any small school aged children in the house... so schools are not an issue..
the commissary.. well I do my best not to grocery shop anyway lol, so I work around it.. someone posted or emailed to go to the AF commissary.. so it will be nice to check those out.. but there again.. there is always the economy.. and Im not sure Carson is ready for me.. but in order to leave Ft Jackson, I'll have to be ready for it.. the major difficulty in leaving is the thought of leaving my mini family.. many who have become more then just friends I motor with, many have become family, people I have grown to love, trust and depend on.. and as I know I won't be so far away from them.. it makes me sad to leave the east coast because of them. They made my days here much easier to bear..