Packed and ready to go!

Posted on by Ian C.

Tomorrow morning Margaret & I fly to Monterey, CA to enjoy a couple of days vacation before picking up GP #0203, and then hitting the road on MINI Takes The States!
I’ve packed – I found “chili red” and a “thunder blue” luggage, and I’m also accompanied by Quack Quack Jack:

QQJ ready for MINI Takes The States

Quack Quack Jack is a tribute to Ed Smith, a friend to all including so many people worldwide in the MINI community – and QQJ has travelled the world over the last year – he just got back from a trip to Alaska! Now he will travel coast to coast on MINI Takes The States.

QQJ has his own travel booklet – hopefully MINI owners across the country will leave messages for others to read; just find me and QQJ!x

MOT2006 Check Presentation

Posted on by Ian C.

Following the amazing fund raising of over $16,000 at MINIsOnTop this year, today a number of MINIsOnTop volunteers gathered to enjoy a BBQ and present a check to Make-A-Wish (also present, MOT2006 major prize winners Shannon (who won the Herb Chambers MINI of Boston lease) and Chuck (who won the MINI of Peabody JCW upgrade)). John from Make-A-Wish joined us for some food, chats, and the check presentation:


Michael and Pam provided an excellent spread of food (including great desserts) and amazingly, the infamous Jeff Baker attended and did a wonderful job of running the BBQs and cooking various wonderful meats!

 

MANY thanks again to everyone that attended MINIsOnTop, all the “yellowhat” volunteers and the many companies that donated prizes which helped us raise more than $16,000 this year.
MANY thanks also to Michael & Pam, Jeff and everyone that came to enjoy the day.

MTTS pack arrives

Posted on by Ian C.

Comfortably in time for my trip to Monterey, my MINI Takes The States registration pack arrived today:

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Contents include a welcome note, car sticker, travelogue (custom notebook!), quarantine kit and a couple of MTTS armbands (the key to the event – without them you can’t join in the planned events!):

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Curiously, although we were told to register each attendee, the two armbands per registration pack allow a driver and passenger … since I (and many people) correctly registered my passenger (Margaret) separately, there’ll be loads more armbands than people – good for last minute folks, not so good for head count planning!