Hi team,
I am so sorry for not posting Buellton Rally information in the last few weeks, but due to many circumstances, it has been extremely difficult to get any timely information from a certain potential participating dealer and one Regional CA Heartland employee, who shall remain nameless. These people just won't return phone calls, and sorry to say, we are at their mercy. Soon, I will be posting an itinerary, designed with our illustrious Pacific Coast Director, John Dawson helpful input. Until then, I will give you some thoughts to chew on, and now all our campers can hop right in, and give their 2 cents worth.
Anyone who wants to golf, John Dawson will be setting up tee times for Saturday, so post here your interest level and PM John as well, so he knows who may be interested. If you wish to play on a different day, please post, and if you can get together a two, three or 4 some, JD will set it up for you, or do it yourself.
Wine tasters, we had a lovely lady, Ruth Cooper, take several groups out last year and so please post your interest level, and for $65, she will take you to 4 wineries, and you will buy a wonderful box lunch to eat outside at one of the beautiful wineries. She is open to winery choice, so please post, and I will set you up to speak to her.
Horseshoe players, if you are interested, we are planning a Saturday or Sunday afternoon tourney, if there are enough interested parties.
Friday night dinner is still up in the air, ahem ahem, but another nameless dealer will hopefully be giving us their input shortly, on what they plan to provide. At the least, we will have a side dish and desert potluck, and it's possible this may expand to main dishes. Don't change your channels, folks on this one.
Randy and Kim-Anh Scianna, owners of the See Grins Heartland dealership in San Martin, just south of San Jose, who showed 2 rigs at last years Buellton rally, will be unable to attend due to their required attendance at a huge Santa Clara RV Show, but have donated several hundred dollars to provide the main course of Tri-Tip steak and BBQ Chicken, so we will be having a Potluck Side Dish and desert dishes, provided by our wonderful camper chefs (sounds like you). We will have brochures for you from See Grins, which is a wonderful dealership. Please post your special dish that you would love to make and share. That will also be raffle night, so please bring your $15 RV unwrapped gift to raffle off after dinner and desert.
We also are speaking with a vendor who has a wonderful new sewage management system, who we are hoping will be giving us a first hand demonstration of this wonderful new idea. This exciting event will probably take place Saturday afternoon, so save up your UGH............ naw yuck, I don't even want to go there LOL! Even if it is funny, can you picture it, please don't?
For those staying on Sunday, we will be having a group BBQ lunch and dinner at the Clubhouse or outside near rally HQ, sponsored by the So Cal Chapter.
We will be having a So Cal Chapter member, using the site next to the Clubhouse as our Rally HQ, so once you have checked in, please go to site #75 to get your goodie bag, drop off your RV raffle gift, and buy several dollars of raffle tickets to support your local Heartland So Cal Chapter. We also will have nightly fires at Rally HQ's, meet and greets appetizers and water and soda, friday afternoon, and hopefully every chance we get. I want to thank the Affinity Group, which owns Woodall's and Camping World for providing some nice door prizes that will be handed out and/or raffled off.
Now, I am also sorry to say that unfortunately, my beautiful wife Debbi and I will not be able to attend this year's rally. Now everyone, put away your handkerchief's, I, too am also so disappointed, but due to my spinal fusion of 2 vertebrae's, I just have been unable to get cleared by my surgeon, or my Physical Therapist to do what it takes to lead this rally. I am so upset, but we will be there in spirit, and with John's help, I will post all the activities I can, and try to make sure your rally is the best it can be. Bob and Patty Hartsell, our Chapter leaders, will be available along with John, to keep all of you misfits in line, and show you the funnest time as possible. If by some chance, I do get cleared, I will be there with bells and whistles on, and loving every second of our rally. Thank you everyone for all your support, and most importantly, everyone attending will make this one great, fantastic rally. We look forward to meeting each and every one of you down the road, as hopefully early next year, we will be buying a brand new 2012 Landmark from Randy and Kim-Anh.
I am sorry that I do not have all activities nailed down yet, but very soon, I will post as much detail as I can, as we want everyone to have a great time, and enjoy the company of all our fun campers.
