Is it far from you?

 

morning only. i have to prepare for inventory the day before. see you all there!!!

 

Hey Kris,

Are we going to be driving through the mountains where there may be some snow? If so I'll change to my snow tires today.

 

I'll be there this time! if I can't find the park I'm for sure at the XXX. Looking forward to showing you guys my new car AND meeting some of you for the first time!

 

^^ I see someone is getting confident driving stick shift now. Defintley come out Mike, it's been awhile.

 

Not far - about 30 minutes, give or take.

 

If anyone wants to caravan to Riverside Park from the Eastside, I'm meeting my passenger at XXX Drive-in in Issaquah this morning at 9am. She's coming from Lynnwood and leaving her car there to pick up in the afternoon when we get done. (If you were at our meet last April at Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, you met Revlis. My passenger is Pam, his wife. He'd be there too, but he hurt his back last week.)

I'm leaving my house at 8:30 - roughly in an hour - so if you want, PM me for details or my cell number.

Riverside Park sounds easy to find - the address is: Riverside Rd E & 78th St E, Sumner, WA 98390

 

Great turnout!!!! And many of you took Kristopher's challenge to dress up very seriously! Nice looking gang I hope we get some good pics to share. Shaun, I think you had the British-super-spy thing goin' on for sure. Even little Kaitlyn was fancy!

Thanks again for the planning Kristopher, good job. It's so nice to be able to go fast and not have to worry about where to turn

It was my first time in the twisties with a passenger and it was great. Thanks to Pam (Mrs. Revlis) for being my co-pilot!

It was great seeing you again Darin and I'm really looking forward to seeing the pics you took. Bummer that you weren't able to go with us. We missed you and Mary and the kids.

Annibal - Looking dapper in your new suit dude! Thanks for coming out to see us off.

And, woohoo, Ryan you made it!

Nice to see all the new faces this time - hope to see you again! Krankor, CorranFox, Proxi and your brother, blue tool...

And a HUGE thanks to BunnyGirl for driving all the way up from Oregon to go with us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was so nice to meet you Tiffany!!!!!!!!

Happy Holidays! See you at the next meet!

 

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Hey guys - GREAT seeing you again, and meeting newbies! I have pics - but I've sized them wrong - when did the attachment limit drop to 145KB?? Lame...I'll look for an easy way to host 'em, then post them up.



Darin

 

Send them to me and I can host them. I'll PM my e-mail.

 

Kris - done.

 

Here are a few of my pics from inside the Triple X Drive-In. So much to look at on the walls!

Mmmmmm.... rootbeer floats on their way...

 

Oh yeah... some cars too...

 

Yikes, tight squeeze!

 

Uh Oh! Do we have another photographer in the making? That angled shot is pretty darned cool.

 

LOL... I was just trying to find a way to fit everyone in the pic...lol But thanks.

I AM, however, going to start taking classes in March. I got Randy's Nikon D70 out and started playing with it, but it's too much for me to handle without some guidance. I tried to get Darin to give lessons....

 

dmp's pics are here http://www.the-winding-road.com/imag.../gdnw20061210/

If you have trouble uploading your pics here, let me know and I'll host them. I'll get mine up later tonight, right now I gotta eat something.

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Pics turned out great guys! Lets see some more.

 

Nice Darin! Love the group shot! Lookin pretty good for standing out in the cold and rain

 

Great to see everyone and meet the new folks! I'm looking forward to the next drive. Kris I think we'll have to figure out how to fake out the rain. Maybe plan it for a Saturday and then secretly have the drive on Sunday so the rain will show up Saturday. A big round of applause for Kris for organizing a great drive and a great place to have lunch! We'll have to do some more meets at the XXX in the future.

Looking forward to seeing everyone and hopefully a few more next time!

-Shaun

 

Thanks, I appreciate the compliments. It's a labor of love. Some day I'll be in a position to do this stuff full time. Until then, I'll be happy dragging you folks out once a month. BTW, if that's not often enough, let me know

Honestly, though, It's wonderful, from planning, researching, and occasionally scouting, to making the drive and hanging out with everyone, it's the highlight of my month. Trying to pick someplace new and a new way to get there, while moving the group around so everyone gets a run in there back-yard is a challenge I wouldn't give up for anything.

Enough sappy diatribe, here's the couple of pics I was satisfied with. I'm nowhere near the shutterbug that Darin and Volney are, but I did manage to capture Darin in his element.




I am looking for suggestions for where to go in January. Remember, last weekend of the month. You don't have to know of any roads, just suggest an area, and I'll find the roads, even if it means field research :D

 

Great pics, everyone! I particularly liked those up-on-high shots! I also like the diagonal picture, it makes us look like Batman villians.

It was great meeting everyone, I had a really great time (even if the driving was a little stressful for me), and look forward to doing another one of these in the future (though likely not January). If we go to the XXX again, someone remind me I want my root beer *without* ice.

Oh, and thanks again to Kris for organizing the whole thing!

 

nice pics. nice to see you all there, and i hope next time i will beaver to go on the driver

 

I haven't downloaded mine from my camera yet. LOL!

 

BunnyGirl, Did you download your pics yet?? I just looked at Darin's pics and saw your fancy red shoes for the first time! Cute!! No wonder you didn't wear them the rest of the time - it was WAY to rainy and cold for shoes like that... brrr