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Lets meet at 10am for coffee on the square in beautiful downtown Healdsburg. At 10:30am we will drive through Alexander Valley and Knights Valley to Calistoga for a quick drive through downtown to head up the hill to Middletown. From Middletown we will drive through Cobb and Kelseyville to downtown Lakeport for a "potty" break on the lake. Next we will drive over the Hopland Grade to Hopland for lunch at the historic Bluebird Cafe http://catalog.com/mendo/bluebird/welcome.html, across the street from the original Hopland Brewery, and a visit to Real Goods http://www.realgoods.com/. Afterwards we will head down 101 back to downtown Healdsburg where participants can depart for home or do some shopping in Northern California's "Carmel".


When:

Sunday, March 20, 2005 at 10:00 AM


Where:

Flying Goat Coffee
324 Center Street
Healdsburg, CA 95448
(707) 433-9081

Please RSVP


For additional information and to download a map of the event please refer to our calendar or membership page.


To purchase club sirts, order online. Save shipping costs and pick your shirt up at an REME event.

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It seems that we will have one of our largest groups ever for our March 20th run!! As of today, I think we will have 26 people in 18 cars.

The coffee shop will not be able to accomodate all of us, but weather permitting we can meet in the square (park) and visit Flying Goat or one of the other nearby coffee shops for drinks. If you have trouble parking on the square, there is plenty of parking on cross streets and a large parking lot off Center street 1.5 blocks north of the square.

We will leave Healdsburg sometime between 10:30 and 10:40am so be there promptly by 10am if you want coffee and want to visit before the run.

Email me if you need any instructions or if you need a map of the area. Maps for the run are downloadable off our website.

There is a poll at http://minicooper.meetup .com regarding the direction we take for the run. If you have a preference please vote prior to Thursday night, March 17. If the majority of the voting group wants to reverse the direction of the run, I will update the map oinline at http://redwoodempiremini .com/calendar.htm on Friday.

I look forward to seeing you all there. Feel free to bring MINI friends. The more, the better. Have them sign up if possible.

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Wow! What a great time Elsa, Janet and I had.... hopefully everyone else did as well. Despite all the rain (falling about 30% of the time) we still had at least 16 cars turnout with around 28 people! As soon as I got home around 5:30pm, it turned very sunny...

We drove through vineyard covered valleys and forested mountains from downtown Healdsburg, 128 miles later, back on the north end of Santa Rosa, wine tasting at Kendell Jackson. IT WAS FUN!

I would like to thank everyone that attended the run, especially those of you who traveled great distances from the Sacramento area, south, and east bay areas. Your continued support of our club is very much appreciated while it's in its infancy.

Our next run will be more centrally located with our "first official club meeting" afterwards. We will meet at approximately 10am, April 9th and "do" the Sacramento Delta starting in the Suisun City - Fairfiled area and finishing in downtown Suisun City with a club meeting at a local pizza parlor around 5pm. This will be a "location friendly" run for all 4 Northern California Mini-MINI clubs.

Please refer to our April REME run thread.