Great time at Stonehenge -

Just home after a great weekend with the people who make PSMINI such a great club to be part of.  Thanks to Bruce and Stacie it was a totally successfull drive down - supoer dinner get together - and a couple of fun blasts up and down the Loops Road.  Condolences to anyone who missed it! 

Edited by CINIMIN - July/22/12 at 4:44pm

We made it home safe. Thanks everyone for making it a fun event and it was very nice to meet and make some new friends.

    Thank you Stacie & Bruce, we had a great time, it was awesome seeing all our or mini's on the road together. Mary hill road was a blast. We saw many mini's on the way home and waved at all of the them. Can't wait for next year's event. see you at the next event.

First long distance run with the club (first event was the Twists & Turns Rally). Besides the fun factor, one of the reasons for getting a MINI was to explore Washington and have an excuse to take road trips. This trip certainly fit the bill...my wife and I had a blast. 

Edited by leogetz - July/23/12 at 9:05pm

Here's a short story:
Went to Maryhill WA with some other MINI enthusiasts, took an excellent route, caught up with some excellent friends, met some new excellent friends, experienced a replica of Stonehenge, had some good food, left some rubber on Maryhill Loops Road, was yelled at (with expletive) by my navigator, capped the weekend off by visiting a couple wineries, got home, and slept like the dead.

That's pretty much a perfect weekend in my book. Excellent route Stacie and Bruce and much appreciated the chance to run the Loop Road. I think that was the turning point in my decision towards wanting a Roadster. Just all around goofy smiles and thumbs up for your work on putting this together. I look forward to next years gathering! and thanks to PSMINI for supporting this run. It was all around excellent.

johnf36 wrote: Ryan where did you get the cabrio?

At the '11 Christmas Party (see, it pays to show-up at these things) I won a "'vert for a weekend" from Seattle MINI. Since I have no intention of purchasing a 'vert, Seattle MINI very graciously let me borrow their Roadster, which I do have interest in purchasing. So, I did the run in a 2012 Roadster S manual. I'll be doing a full write-up on my impressions in the next day or two.

johnf36 wrote: The green one? and from your comments you have made up your mind , I take it?

White Silver with the MINI Yours Soda stripes/mirror caps. The BRG is sharp looking though! I believe a few PS MINI folks have had the White Silver one out and about. It had about 2500 miles on it when I got it. Mind made up? You'll have to wait for the full report.

So now that I got us  

Someone must have video

So Larry and I also had so much fun on the drive, at dinner and running the Loops Road. Bruce and Stacey, you do it again! We're still out having fun on Highway 12!

garumph wrote: Sorry to miss it this year. But on the loops road, if you are not getting yelled at by your navigator ( with explicatives ) you aren't doing it right. ;-)

I know, right! I told her that but she still refused to go again. Crazy!

This was also my first long drive with the club.  It was a lot of fun!  I enjoyed meeting other happy mini drivers too.  We took 14 home and that was a nice drive. 

Thanks to everybody who came out and joined us this year.  It was so great to look in the rear view and see all those MINIs!  We've received many favorable comments about the new route, so we'll probably do it again next year.  Special thanks to John and Jason for putting together the Poker Run, to Linda for gathering prizes and to Ryan for being our radio relay and assistant cat herder.  Thanks also to Martin and Anne for leading us and Rob and Joann home via Highway 14 and associated Forest Service roads.  Now those were some twisties (with oncoming motorcycles)!  I would especially like to thank Jason for letting me take SuperCoop up the Loops Road once - I totally understand now why everybody loves the Superchargers!

Here's the shot we never were able to get:

And here's a slideshow of some of our photos.  Enjoy them!

Bruce, Stacie and Elliott

Edited by valvashon - July/29/12 at 10:32am

I really feel bad for not posting what a great time we had last weekend. It was a bummer we had to jet off to a wedding at 10am on Sunday, but all was fun. Bruce and Stacie did a wonderful job leading the pack of MINIs as usual. Way to go!  

I too am sorry I had to scoot off so early Sunday morning, but had to get back to Seattle to attend a festival and prep for a job interview early Monday morning.