[Todd Baumann]

Well everyone this following weekend after the holiday is supposed to be the Fall Colour Tour to Sault. Ste. Marie.

There seems to be a few wrenches in the works so far.

The first one is more for me than you. My wife and I will not be able to attend this year. Lisa got thrown from her horse last week and broke her collarbone and shoulder blade in 3 places as well as had some blood on the brain with a pretty good concussion. She is home now from the hospital and doing much better, but she cannot take a 5 hour drive in the roadster, let alone in a regular car. Not to mention she needs help getting things done personally and around the house so I would not be able to come and travel alone either.

The second is the weather, right now it looks like it is going to rain for a better part of the weekend, and pretty steady at that.

So here is what the guys in the Sault are asking and suggesting.

Anyone who was or is interested in going, please still make a reservation, you have till Monday to do that and still get rates for the group. I know a few people were holding out to see what was going to happen first before making reservations or plans. As of right now we only had 4 people make reservations to date with the hotel, although a dozen + were interested in going.

While in the same sense we do not have to cancel until 4pm on Thursday, so you can wait till the last moment to cancel if the weather is not going to cooperate.

So my question to all of you is, even if it rains, is anyone going to attempt to go?

If it does not rain, will you still plan on going even though I cannot lead the group up?

Do we try and reschedule for another time? Possibly in the spring or summer of next year.

We had not planned anything special along the lines of a rain out date, because, for us (my wife and I), we did not have any open weekends until well into Nov. to even consider doing that other than this one.

But a rain date can be done for you guys if you would like. Not to mention you can still make the trek without us.

Mark Koski and the guys in the Sault are more than willing to accommodate you and still do the cruise. He has graciously agreed to take anyone around that does still want to come up, or do on another run date if you still would like to go, and weather prevents us from doing so for our scheduled weekend.

They have mentioned that if raining most of the stops would have to be cancelled because they are outdoor stops. They even went as far as to say if it was raining that they suggest we shoot for another date and sunshine, not many stops and sights to see if there is rain.

As for the trip up for us from down here I had not made any reservations for lunch going up, so that would not be that big of a deal to cancel plans there. The stops on the way up were just going to be at a decent place around 1pm for lunch and then for fuel as needed. I was just kind of winging it with the plans on that end of things this year.

In any case please reply via this to Mark and I, or even give Mark a call directly. We need to know something by Wednesday from everyone interested. So if you are still interested in going or have more questions please contact Mark directly. Contact me with a PM and I will give you his numbers.

If no one is going to go, we will also need to cancel the reservations for dinner, breakfast, as well as a couple of the stops for photo ops that we had tentatively made as of right now.

One way or the other, the guys up in the Sault would like to get an idea and gage interest of who is still interested in making the trip up at one time or another.

Thanks, and sorry for the bad news, and please let us know.

Todd