Hondo
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Dec 4, 1999
- Location
- Hastings, MI
A spring GTG in Michigan has become a yearly ritual around here for some of the old timers. We have been having the GTG at my place in Hastings MI the last few years. http://pics.tdiclub.com/members/B_Sides1/Maps/Hastings1.jpg
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I will have to warn you in advance some of our more creative members
( I will not mention any names ) can get kind of crazy with makes shift propane screaming jet engines that will scare the bejabbers
out of ya at times. But you are for warned.
By a somewhat general consensus the date that seems to work the best for everyone is Sat 5/24 of Memorial Day weekend.
I am posting this as a sign up thread because the GTG got pretty good size the last few years. By putting a post up here you will help so we can kind of keep a handle on how big the GTG is getting. I live out in the country so some camping (campers or tents) or a bonfire is possible. If you want to camp and come in Friday night and stay through Sat night that’s fine. All I ask is please put that in your post so I know what to expect.
Looking for something easy to pull off for everyone, a tailgate style GTG was suggested. So BYO (food, drink, lawn chairs) will be the order of the day. We will have coffee and donuts here in the morning. We will also have a BBQ grill , paper plates, and plastic silverware available here for anyone who wants to use it. We can also take a collection up if someone wants to go after pizza.
If you want to camp and arrive on Friday night that works fine. The GTG will start say 7:30am Sat morning or anything you get here, until whatever time Sat night. If we have a few people around Friday of Sat night we can have a bonfire and a drink a couple beers. Then a proposal was made for a Sunday morning breakfasts meet at a restaurant, which will cap off the weekend.
We may need to take up a small collection to cover some minor (porta potty, paper product, etc) expenses.
If have any suggestion to make this thing better or easier please feel free to make them.
I will try to monitor the thread but I do get busy at times. Ripster has offered to monitor the thread so I am asking him to do so and he can also answer questions in my absence. He can also give me a prod through email if he wants.
Hondo
http://pics.tdiclub.com/members/B_Sides1/Maps/Hastings2.jpg
http://pics.tdiclub.com/members/B_Sides1/Maps/Hastings3.jpg
I will have to warn you in advance some of our more creative members


By a somewhat general consensus the date that seems to work the best for everyone is Sat 5/24 of Memorial Day weekend.
I am posting this as a sign up thread because the GTG got pretty good size the last few years. By putting a post up here you will help so we can kind of keep a handle on how big the GTG is getting. I live out in the country so some camping (campers or tents) or a bonfire is possible. If you want to camp and come in Friday night and stay through Sat night that’s fine. All I ask is please put that in your post so I know what to expect.
Looking for something easy to pull off for everyone, a tailgate style GTG was suggested. So BYO (food, drink, lawn chairs) will be the order of the day. We will have coffee and donuts here in the morning. We will also have a BBQ grill , paper plates, and plastic silverware available here for anyone who wants to use it. We can also take a collection up if someone wants to go after pizza.
If you want to camp and arrive on Friday night that works fine. The GTG will start say 7:30am Sat morning or anything you get here, until whatever time Sat night. If we have a few people around Friday of Sat night we can have a bonfire and a drink a couple beers. Then a proposal was made for a Sunday morning breakfasts meet at a restaurant, which will cap off the weekend.
We may need to take up a small collection to cover some minor (porta potty, paper product, etc) expenses.
If have any suggestion to make this thing better or easier please feel free to make them.
I will try to monitor the thread but I do get busy at times. Ripster has offered to monitor the thread so I am asking him to do so and he can also answer questions in my absence. He can also give me a prod through email if he wants.
Hondo