3rd Bangshift Spring Blooms Tour

[Pronova]

Put me Down

[cobra]

suggested fri afternoon activity - the museum for those of us that haven't seen it.
suggested hotel for friday nite - i don't think most of us had any problems with the quality inn. actually, our room was pretty nice.
DTB mentioned a hotel on the other end. can we get him to post them details?

[Pronova]

Anybody want me to design a T-shirt and Have it online for us to buy I would love to do something or at least try

[Monster]

Don't see a reason why you couldn't do that.

Personally, I have too many t-shirts already, so will just give Terri one of my old shirts and get her to embroider the new year.

[Vsolo]

suggested fri afternoon activity - the museum for those of us that haven't seen it.
suggested hotel for friday nite - i don't think most of us had any problems with the quality inn. actually, our room was pretty nice.
DTB mentioned a hotel on the other end. can we get him to post them details?

I did a quick check on line for 2 beds in a room for that weekend at the Waynesboro (this rates are not a a group discount, just to get an idea)

Quality Inn Waynesboro-VA -VA104

$ 82.00
& Front Royal

Quality Inn Front Royal-VA-VA017

$ 69 a night

[Vsolo]

Put me Down

Me too

[Vsolo]

Do we have a route yet? I might have to go. Two weeks before we are going to do a Pub crawl in Nashville. Drive there on friday and come home on Sunday. ( Hopefully one of us can drive. )

here is a link to the route

Shenandoah National Park

[cobra]

Anybody want me to design a T-shirt and Have it online for us to buy I would love to do something or at least try

thanks for your offer, but terri makes the t shirts for this tour. terri, maybe you can work on a generic one were we can, as we talked about, just add the year. the fall one you already designed should work. so maybe you can come up with a spring one.

[Vsolo]

Whoa found a more detailed map

http://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/upload/whole_park.pdf

Also we had talked about stopping about half way on the route to have a cook out lunch, at about half way is Big Meadows and Byrd Visitor Center

I found another map & there seems to be some areas, to the North, that we did not see when cruising thru there on our way home. I.e. a place where we could set up a grill and all of us could park.
When we stopped there at the Byrd Visitor Center, the parking lot was pretty crowded.

http://wikimapia.org/#lat=38.5202184&lon=-78.4362674&z=16&l=0&m=b

There is a gas station there too, gas price was pretty reasonable too.

There looks like a place that is north of Byrd Visitor Center where we could stretch out.

If some one lives near by or is more familiar with the area around Byrd Visitor Center please chime in.

[64casteel]

Anybody want me to design a T-shirt and Have it online for us to buy I would love to do something or at least try

I have a different opinion then the other guys, if you would like to design one go ahead, depending on the price and style we may buy one.

[novadriver]

Alright we have a time and a place. I can start checking with the car Museum(for Fri) and the Caverns(for Sat) and see about a group rate if you guys don't mind and everyone wants to do that. Also anyone coming from the Northeast I have maped out a route from Frederick so we don't have to stay on the highways down and back. I know it's early but I' am thinking leaving Frederick around 10am (Fri) and its a open invite for all to tag along. The route down will be RT15 to RT29 then pick up I-64 to I-81 and hit the car museum & hotel. Then coming home we would take 340 to RT 7, then pick RT 287 to MD then pick up RT340 in brunswick. It gonna be a nice trip and I look forward to seeing everyone again.

[Monster]

3rd Annual BangShift "Spring Blooms" Tour
Shenandoah National Park - Skyline Drive
Rockfish Gap (MM 105) to Front Royal (MM 0)
April 13-15, 2012

Friday, April 13, 2012

Friday Activity
Car Museum - Chris

Friday Night Social

Host Hotel - BangShift Group Rate
Quality Inn
640 W. Broad St.
Waynesboro, VA, US, 22980-4317
(540) 942-1171
$82 non-discounted

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Saurday Tour
Rockfish Gap (MM 105) to Front Royal (MM 0)

Host Hotel - BangShift Group Rate
Quality Inn
10 Commerce Ave.
Front Royal, VA 22630
(540) 635-3161
$69 non-discounted

Saurday Night Event
Caverns - Chris

Sunday, April 15, 2012
Time to say goodbye and head home
Drive Safe !

Participants:
Bruce (cobra)
Steve (White Monster)
Glenn (65 mustang) & Cindi
Vic (67ragtop) & Terri (elcaminogirl59)
Brent (tunaboat), Sharron & Evan (64casteel)
Jim (hoofhearted)
Chris (novadriver)
Ken (BLUE STREAK)
Bruce (pronova)
Bill (Vsolo)

Who else is coming ?

[cobra]

Alright we have a time and a place. I can start checking with the car Museum(for Fri) and the Caverns(for Sat) and see about a group rate if you guys don't mind and everyone wants to do that. Also anyone coming from the Northeast I have maped out a route from Frederick so we don't have to stay on the highways down and back. I know it's early but I' am thinking leaving Frederick around 10am (Fri) and its a open invite for all to tag along. The route down will be RT15 to RT29 then pick up I-64 to I-81 and hit the car museum & hotel. Then coming home we would take 340 to RT 7, then pick RT 287 to MD then pick up RT340 in brunswick. It gonna be a nice trip and I look forward to seeing everyone again.

i'm going to run up to Mt Airy, MD to see family afterwards. what's a good route?

[65 mustang]

i'm going to run up to Mt Airy, MD to see family afterwards. what's a good route?

Mt Airy is in North Carolina

[Pronova]

One in Maryland too