The MINI Takes The States beach party kicked off MTTS this morning, followed by 5-6 hours drive south, much of it on fabulous twisty California Highway 1:
A few extra GPMINI specific pictures on California Route One – including GP0203 reaching 0203 miles!
A couple of minor issues on the day – I don’t like sand so I’d have preferred a pebble beach! The for sale merchandise was apparently more popular than MINI anticipated, with long queues as a result – and it closed during the speeches leaving people that had queued a long time with nothing! Hopefully MINI will put more staff on later legs …
Also, many MINIs arrived well before any of the organisation staff, and were lost trying to find the non-yet-existing meeting place! I think they need to send a car ahead of the pack.
M&I / GBMINI 
Gee, Ian! Sounds like the event could use some MINIs on Top style logistics planning, eh what?
Ian – can you get me a metal MTTS grill badge?
Theo – they did take some hints from us (for example a page of names/faces)