TRS Event TRS 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure - Land Between The Lakes - September 5th – 8th, 2024

[Mrs. Eighty Five]

A friendly reminder...

I typically used the attendance list on page 1 to determine pizza supplies. I currently count 30 people. This year we have a registration process... and I'm going to use that list (if @Jim Oaks makes it available) to take my head count.

I need everyone planning to go to first of all register... and also insure your name is on the list (with additional people in your immediate group). Also... if you are unable to attend... we need to get you off the list too. I need to put in my order for supplies by the end of next week.

I sure hope the pizza crew doesn't bail on me this year... it's shaping up to be the biggest group we've done this for. I usually error with a bit more then I need to cover a late arrival or two... but an accurate head count is necessary.

Thanks in advance...

We are getting everything ready in Iowa to make it down. Don’t know about some of the Nebraska help…

And I believe my dad and I are working on the biscuits and gravy for Saturday breakfast. How much sausage gravy and how many biscuits should we plan on making?

 

[Jim Oaks]

The TRS 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure is 4-weeks from today.

I add people to the list (first page) when they register. From what I can see, the list is up to date.

Just a reminder,

The Deadline To Register Is Friday August 23, 2024

If you plan to attend but haven't registered, please do so at:

TRS 25th Anniversary Fall Adventure - The Ranger Station

I will send @Uncle Gump the headcount and money for the pizza supplies on Saturday August 24, 2024.

 

[Rick W]

@Jim Oaks

I didn’t see my name on the list. I’m pretty sure I registered around May 8, but I said I was going to be a weak 50-50. I’m pretty sure I paid just to support the group.

At this point I’m pretty sure I’m going to come, but I will probably come up Friday and come back on Saturday night or Sunday morning.

 

[97RangerXLT]

(if @Jim Oaks makes it available)

He's busy fighting a welder right now, give him a bit of time...

Already registered for myself and my son

AJ

 

[Uncle Gump]

We are getting everything ready in Iowa to make it down. Don’t know about some of the Nebraska help…

And I believe my dad and I are working on the biscuits and gravy for Saturday breakfast. How much sausage gravy and how many biscuits should we plan on making?

Nebraska help?

Debbie?

I made a pizza genius out of her.

You asked before about biscuits and sausage gravy. I'll repeat... yes... and more please.

 

[Jim Oaks]

@Jim Oaks

I didn’t see my name on the list. I’m pretty sure I registered around May 8, but I said I was going to be a weak 50-50. I’m pretty sure I paid just to support the group.

At this point I’m pretty sure I’m going to come, but I will probably come up Friday and come back on Saturday night or Sunday morning.

Sorry @Rick W I added you.

The pizza crew is going to have their work cut out for them this year.

On another note...

It's a long drive from Texas to Kentucky with nothing to see going down the interstate. I'm thinking about avoiding the interstate and taking the old US Highways so it will be a scenic view that I haven't seen before, but it will add about 4 or 5 hours onto my trip. I will be out their earlier than most of you and will be traveling over the Labor Day weekend which should be fun. I need to figure out my route now, so I have an idea of where I'm going to stop for the night along the way. I'll never find a room on Labor Day weekend if I don't reserve one now.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

Sorry @Rick W I added you.

The pizza crew is going to have their work cut out for them this year.

On another note...

It's a long drive from Texas to Kentucky with nothing to see going down the interstate. I'm thinking about avoiding the interstate and taking the old US Highways so it will be a scenic view that I haven't seen before, but it will add about 4 or 5 hours onto my trip. I will be out their earlier than most of you and will be traveling over the Labor Day weekend which should be fun. I need to figure out my route now, so I have an idea of where I'm going to stop for the night along the way. I'll never find a room on Labor Day weekend if I don't reserve one now.

If you swing through here I could make room for you. Heck. I could jump in and convoy the last leg.

 

[Rick W]

If you swing through here I could make room for you. Heck. I could jump in and convoy the last leg.

Thanks! Having learned the group a little better, I know there are several guys within 100 miles of here who may be going up, and I know that the 25th is very popular. I haven’t planned that far ahead, but it has been on my mind, and I’ll reach out before then either way.

 

[SenorNoob]

Brittney has said she will definitely be there at least part of the time. My Aunt and cousin may be there a day too.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It's a long drive from Texas to Kentucky with nothing to see going down the interstate. I'm thinking about avoiding the interstate and taking the old US Highways so it will be a scenic view that I haven't seen before, but it will add about 4 or 5 hours onto my trip. I will be out their earlier than most of you and will be traveling over the Labor Day weekend which should be fun. I need to figure out my route now, so I have an idea of where I'm going to stop for the night along the way. I'll never find a room on Labor Day weekend if I don't reserve one now.

That is pretty much how I roll with my '85, I don't really have the gears to cruise on the interstate. I really enjoy "roadfarming" aka looking at the various crops and farmsteads along the way, its fun to see how things change in different areas.

I remember when we went to Ohio 5 years ago I saw a field of tomatoes, they had some big contraption out there picking them and I could smell fresh tomatoes from the highway. Coming from the land of corn and soybeans it was really neat.

 

[Jim Oaks]

That is pretty much how I roll with my '85, I don't really have the gears to cruise on the interstate. I really enjoy "roadfarming" aka looking at the various crops and farmsteads along the way, its fun to see how things change in different areas.

I remember when we went to Ohio 5 years ago I saw a field of tomatoes, they had some big contraption out there picking them and I could smell fresh tomatoes from the highway. Coming from the land of corn and soybeans it was really neat.

I get that. The first time I was travelling down south and saw a cotton field I had to stop and touch it.

Where I'm at it's mostly cattle ranches. Every once in a great while I'll see a corn field somewhere. Recently I saw a big field of sorghum.

Speaking of Ohio, I've been across the northwest part of Ohio and seen crews of people picking fields by hand. Get up into northeast Ohio and you'll find large nurseries (a landscapers paradise) and vineyards. It can be neat passing through Amish areas and seeing them working fields with horses.

I think when we went to the Casey Jones distillery last year in Kentucky we passed through an area where they were cutting tobacco.

How many of you live in an area where you has a US Route running through it. Have you ever stopped and thought about where that road could take you??

Growing up in the Eastlake / Willoughby / Mentor Ohio area, we had US20 that passed through the area. From Cleveland to Willoughby the local name for it was Euclid Ave / RT20, and when you got to Mentor it became Mentor Ave / US20. East of there it was just RT20. If I filled that road east it would take me Boston Massachusetts and the Atlantic Ocean. If I followed it West it would take me to Newport Oregon and the Pacific Ocean.

I've traveled our old US Routes some great lengths including US30 and US66 (old Route 66). Sometimes it's fun just finding the old sections of old highways after they've been re-routed.

The Great American Roadtrip. Getting there can be just as much of the adventure as the destination itself.

 

[Uncle Gump]

Are we there yet?

 

[Jim Oaks]

Here's a little inspirational music for you:

Crank the volume for this one:

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I really think @85_Ranger4x4 needs some simulated woodgrain panels on his Ranger.

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[-Nate]

Color me green with envy .

I just got back from two days perusing the back roads of Western Arizona with my Sweet and my '01, the 2.5L 4 banger humming right along, AC set to max .

 

[SenorNoob]

So I just got done changing my reservation from a deluxe tent site to a treehouse. Should be much easier on my company.