MTTS day 2 – Barstow pitstop and a long drive

Posted on by Ian C.

Today was a lot of driving, mostly on highway – 70mph speed limit but lacking scenery! And one way or another, my drive was also mostly lacking MINIs, other than the morning gathering:

Many thanks to SoCal MINI Maniacs for organizing the pitstop – it nicely broke up the journey, and it was great to meet up with people, grab some water & lunch …


On the road, some scenery and some MINIs, but lots of empty road too …

I love visiting Las Vegas, especially The Bellagio – so when I arrived I headed up to take photos of GPMINI at my favorite hotel 🙂

MTTS day 1 – Beach party then South on California Highway 1

Posted on by Ian C.

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.