1st Sunday Monthly Motoring March 4th 2007

This month we are hosting a ride to Beaufort, South Carolina, to try to make it equidistant from both Savannah and Charleston and the rendezvous involves food, of course! As you come through Beaufort on Hy 21, you eventually come to the waterfront - Bay Street - turn right here, and drive along Bay Street until you come to the marina on the left. There is adequate parking right by the marina. Lets plan to meet there at 12:30 and then drive over the bridge to the restaurant on Lady's Island.

We are eating at Barbara Jean's Restaurant - there are excellent directions on their site as well as a menu. Their address is 47 Ferry Road, Beaufort, SC 29907 (843) 524-2400

After lunch, the plan is to drive a couple of miles east to Hunting Island, for a walk on the beach!

Let's meet at the Starbucks in the 12 Oaks Shopping Center at 5500 Abercorn Street, Savannah at 10am. Details here.

Now that sounds like a perfect day's motoring to me!

Charleston Run / Intro to MINI World

Last week end's run to Charleston was a real treat. We had a great send off from our usual coffee shop before hitting the highway.
Catherine and Heather, while unable to attend the drive, showed for an early coffee as did Blake and crew. Then Stephanie and I made a small but determined convoy for the trip north with Susan and Drew as passengers.

We stopped on the way (all that coffee!) and arrived in Charleston to find as many MINIs opposite the dealership as there were at the dealership! A truly great turn out from the Low Country MINI people - a total of 11 cars and 18 people. Then off to Sullivan's Island for lunch and then another photo op at the USS Yorktown. There are a couple of write-ups with some great picture on Stephanie's and Matt's blogs. Rumor has it that we will be heading north again next month for a run to Hunting Island..more later.

My friends Susan and Drew came along to 'experience' a little motoring. Susan owns Paragon, a creative services company in Savannah and Drew is the creative director in the firm. They have been very interested in MINI's marketing strategies of recent and the owner enthusiasm that is so prevalent within the MINI community, so they wanted to experience the evangelism first hand. Susan has written a great article that she promises to be part of a series. It was fun introducing an outsider to our ways and I know everyone enjoyed you both coming along.

Now Susan..... you need to get a MINI!

1st Sunday Monthly Motoring February 4th. 2007

With Sunday February 4th coming up I just wanted to remind everyone to come along for an outing to Charleston...

We had a great turnout last month and I hope we can do just as well this Sunday. The Charleston gang have made many trips to Savannah for our Savannah meets in the past so when they invited us to visit them we just couldn't turn it down. They have also put the word out in their MINI community so there should be a good crowd.

For consistency, we will still meet at our usual place, for a quick coffee and will try to depart at 10.30 am sharp - this should get us into Charleston for lunch. Hope you all can make it.