Palmetto Cove?

kyle4501 · March 07, 2015, 04:13:11 PM

The Menu:
Friday :
Dinner - Baked potato bar - Potatoes & some toppings will be provided, feel free to bring your favorite topping to share

Saturday :
Breakfast - pancakes & sausage

Lunch - left overs from Baked Potato bar & pork BBQ

Dinner - Spaghetti

As usual, donations accepted & everyone is welcome to bring sides & deserts

Looking forward it !

Lostranger · March 07, 2015, 05:08:16 PM

Sounds like our kind of party: food and fun. I'll bet we have music, too.

kyle4501 · March 22, 2015, 02:17:25 PM

Gary is usually there, I hope he is there to share his talents again this year.

uncle ned · March 30, 2015, 05:08:07 PM

Just 2 more weeks for the big rally.
think if we all left there and went to Garys and flew in and helped we could get the engine in.

Probably not if the rest is a sorry as I am . I have a bad case of dropsy.

Looking forward to seeing every one.Especially Gary I want to see the grin on his face.

uncle ned

Lostranger · March 31, 2015, 04:13:58 AM

So — I'm confused about reservations. PC web site says not needed except for group events. Is this a group event? If so, who makes reservations?

Since this is a "non rally", I'm still assuming that we all "just happen" to show up the same weekend. We expect to get there on Thursday evening, so I'm guessing we'll get a spot without reservations, but I'd be happy to be better informed.

TIA for any help.

Jim

Gary LaBombard · March 31, 2015, 04:56:56 AM

Jim,
I assure you that reservations are not needed at Palmetto Cove. Rest assured there will be room for you and we will all be together if that is what you wish. This place is big and never is at full capacity, especially this early in the season. Look forward to seeing you there.
Gary

Charles in SC · March 31, 2015, 05:22:15 PM

Just show up and tell whoever meets you to put you where the buses are going to be.

kyle4501 · March 31, 2015, 05:56:02 PM

They have space for well over 200 rigs. They have never turned anyone away due to lack of space.

I call it a "Non Rally" because there is no rally fee & the schedule is simply EAT & GREET.
This is likely the most laid back rally you will attend.

Ericbsc · March 31, 2015, 06:07:01 PM

That looks like my eagle before it was painted in that pic. Kyle

tomhamrick · April 01, 2015, 06:31:10 AM

We sure hate to miss the gathering but I just watched the sunrise over Monument Valley, UT. We will however be there in October!!!

Tom & Karen

Lostranger · April 02, 2015, 05:23:14 AM

We're looking forward to meeting some folks and connecting with my friend, Luckychow. My out-of-town body and paint man tells me that he could work here that weekend, but as much as I'd like to get the bus painted, we're looking forward to this event, and he'll just have to come back later.

We're less than two hours from PC — maybe only an hour and a half. I wouldn't be surprised to discover that it's a place we will visit often.

I drove through that part of the world extensively during the period '69-'71. When Jocassee Dam was under construction, my dad was in the radiator repair business. He specialized in heavy equipment work, and a fleet of big dozers, drag pans, haulers and air compressors required much radiator and oil cooler repair. Part of Dad's service included pick up and delivery. Soon after I got my license, he put me to making most of those trips. It was not unusual for me to leave home at 3 A.M. in a '66 Chevy Fleetside and be back in time for school. I drove like the proverbial bat and managed to never get caught — on that run. Dad put in ten to twelve hours a day at the shop, and when they had a breakdown, the construction foreman was always thrilled with our response time. He never learned my name, but he called me speedy.

I was young and thought I was bulletproof. Only years later did I come to appreciate the gravity of pulling onto that massive construction site and sliding my tiny truck into a line of hammer-down Euclid pans that would have barely noticed the bump if my timing was slightly off. That's what it took to get to the maintenance shed. A crane operator was always ready to set off what I was hauling and load the next victim. Or two.

While their crew loaded, I would watch some of that army of behemoth machines at work. In any direction, the roar of a giant Detroit and a plume of black smoke grabbed my attention. I especially liked to watch one of those D9s giving a big Euclid that last push to get her belly full. In some ways, the scene was exactly like that recurring, childhood nightmare I had every time Mother served spaghetti. I would go to bed with my belly stretched past the limit, and the pain in my abdomen managed to trigger my subconscious to drop me and two of my cousins into the middle of a similar construction site. The difference was that, in the dream, the machines were alive and evil. Their collective intent was not construction but squashing three little kids. That dream never ended well.

When I would stand near the mechanic's shed at Jocassee and look over the project, I would often think of that childish nightmare. Usually I would laugh. Sometimes, though, I would shiver and try to think of something else.

Here's hoping that spending a few nights in that neighborhood won't drag up any youthful psychological trauma. If you see me binging on spaghetti Saturday evening, do my wife a favor and try to get me into a program. I wonder how many steps are required in Spaghetti Anonymous.

Hope to see you there.

Jim

LuckyChow · April 02, 2015, 08:43:44 PM

Looking forward to getting over there and meeting everyone too. Can't wait to see your LF, Jim. I'm hoping the weather cooperates for us. That reminds me ---- I need to get my windshield washers working this weekend.

B_K · April 04, 2015, 06:25:54 PM

Don't know if I'll make it to this one or not! (most likely NOT, but I'm getting closer! I finally got a shell to convert! .....more on that in another thread)

BK

Lostranger · April 07, 2015, 02:14:32 AM

Quote from: LuckyChow on April 02, 2015, 08:43:44 PM
Can't wait to see your LF, Jim.

I hate for you to see it, Darryl. Compared to the lovely conversion you've done, Sophia is primitive. We're making a little progress, however. I need to pick your brain on a couple of electrical issues, but I promise that we'll mostly have a good time. Beverly and Kora are looking forward to meeting you.

Jim

uncle ned · April 09, 2015, 04:40:04 AM

Get ready Kyle Huggy is just about loaded up and might be ready to roll this after noon.

If there is anything that I can do to help I will put Wilma to doing it.

I am to old and to lazy to do much but shoot the bull.

hope to get in late this afternoon or early in the morning.

uncle ned