This June is going to be a great driving time for North East MINI Motorers; of course we have MINIsOnTop (June 26/27), at an all new and spectacular location this year – the Attitash Grand Summit hotel in Bartlett, NH.
But a weekend of getting together with 200+ MINIs is not enough for some owners, and this year The Great Ice Cream Run 2 is being organized (a modified repeat of the 2007 drive)
TGICR 2 has been shortened, starting in Staunton, VA instead of Florida, giving more time to enjoy the view, and a “spare day” in Bar Harbor, ME before heading over to MINIsOnTop – unchanged, of course, is the daily Ice Cream, including everyone’s favorite deep fried ice cream!
TGICR too short for you?
How about preceding it with a drive along the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway (BRP)? In 2007, TGICR included this drive, and now for 2009, Tar Heel MINIs is organizing a drive from Cherokee, NC to Waynesboro, VA (close to Staunton where TGICR participants meet up) – see here for more.
GPMINI waits patiently in Florida for my next visit, and will get to come home via the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Ice Cream Run drives … for now, I’ve simply entered each overnight point on to Google Maps (guessing that I’ll break my first 570 miles in to two days):
I wonder who else will be Motoring this June?
M&I / GBMINI 
You will be so close to the dragon when you stop in Cherokee, but it doesn’t look like you’re stopping. You should definitely check it out.