Matt, I need to print this thread and frame it...you got a picture that said "College Station" instead of "Austin" on it and you're complaining?
This was the first year I came up the night before, and it made a great event so much better. I really enjoyed getting the opportunity to talk to so many people for an extended period of time, and also to see Gary Morris so loaded that he was wearing a short-sleeve shirt in 35 degree weather and talking about how warm he was
I wish I could have stayed over Saturday night, also, but that's something to work on for next year.
The one point I would make was that I really enjoyed the poker run we did the first couple of years, not because of the poker part, but because it provided a way to continually regroup the cars into large clusters, which makes the drive that much more enjoyable. I realize that, with around 80 Cobras you're never going to keep the group together, but this year we were two of the last ones out of the Marriott parking lot and we were never in a group of more than six or seven cars. There's nothing like seeing a long line of Cobras ahead, and many more in the mirror...