2006 Eastern United States Meet

[chuyler1]

Boston, MA to Knoxville, TN - 19 hours 5 minutes (as reported by Google Maps)
Boston, MA to Knoxville, TN - 15 hours 6 minutes (as reported by Mapquest)

The funny thing is both report almost identical milage. Either MapQuest expects me to speed or Google thinks I drive like an old lady.

What's there to do in Knoxville.

 

[YellowMP5]

http://www.escapetothesoutheast.com/TN-DMO-Knoxville.asp

but more importantly, Tail of the Dragon is near by
<--------------------- love that road

 

[Kansei]

Boston, MA to Knoxville, TN - 19 hours 5 minutes (as reported by Google Maps)
Boston, MA to Knoxville, TN - 15 hours 6 minutes (as reported by Mapquest)

The funny thing is both report almost identical milage. Either MapQuest expects me to speed or Google thinks I drive like an old lady.

What's there to do in Knoxville.

I think something is up with google maps.. if you look at the route they have you take to knoxville it sucks and it's really indirect. I don't know why I even use google maps it suggested a very different way for me to get home from school and I took it and it took a full two hours longer. bastards.

Edit: oh and what knoxville has is a venue that could handle a group our size, lodging, etc. If this gets as big as it looks like it will there aren't that many places for us to do this. Also the person who is doing all the work with this behind the scenes (not me, I just wanted to have a meet and didn't know where to go from there) has many years of experience organizing events and has contacts and such in the area. If you NEPOC guys want I'll drive the 7 or so hours from school to Boston and caravan down with all of you. According to the time google maps says it'll take to get there from boston it would almost be faster to drive to my apartment in Rochester and then go south through pittsburgh and west virginia. I could provide overnight lodging if needed

 

[YellowMP5]

they gave you the "scenic" route

 

[Kansei]

Boston, MA to Knoxville, TN - 19 hours 5 minutes (as reported by Google Maps)
Boston, MA to Knoxville, TN - 15 hours 6 minutes (as reported by Mapquest)

The funny thing is both report almost identical milage. Either MapQuest expects me to speed or Google thinks I drive like an old lady.

What's there to do in Knoxville.

Oh whoa look at the time I posted from Springfield to Knoxville.. does it suddenly take that many hours to get from Boston to Springfield?? maybe there's some super secret construction project that will completely sever the mass pike and interstate 84 all summer and only google maps and the government knows about it.

 

[CX92ENVY]

That's the idea. I figure once there's a lot of votes we can narrow it down to a couple states and then people from the area or who know the area can suggest good locations for a big group of cars (hopefully not just a parking lot, some place where there is something fun we can all do).

Once we get a location then maybe do a signup list and a supplies list, and get sponsors or something.

thanks.

What happened to this? I voted for Tenn but what about the 30 that voted for the other? I guess Sadam is running this!

 

[Kansei]

What happened to this? I voted for Tenn but what about the 30 that voted for the other? I guess Sadam is running this!

It was a choice between going to Virginia where we had no venue that could handle us and no vendor support or Tennessee where there is a venue and we can get many more people. I'm sorry if I let people down but I never (if I did please correct me I don't remember everything) said that I would completely let the votes control everything, nothing would ever get done that way.

 

[Kansei]

To keep things uncluttered we're moving over to a new thread with a new name, "2006 Mazda Festivus".

http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123627879

Anyone who was on the original signup list who doesn't want to be on it anymore for any reason, let me know and I'll take you off.

 

[CX92ENVY]

I apoligize for such a harsh comment but I feel this is why we have so many problems (of course smart asses like me don't help)

It seems as though the mistake was by not researching spots b4 the poll was posted?

BTW i am signed up to support this anyways!

 

[Mazda6stoked]

that would be so awesome to see a trail of 60+ mazdas driving through like a huge train..... we need somone with a video camera with balls enough to ride standing out the top of one of our cars or maybe a miata and film this omg /drool

HAHAH IM GAME... been there done that but it was for a VW team... got a few great pics from the feb fling event i went to back in feb!!! give me a sunroof and consider it done!

 

[tsunami]

chris... get this thread locked so its not so confusing as to wtf is going on... added link to new thread in my sig...

 

[jersey_emt]

Everyone, please refer to this thread for more info!