[JAM1775]

!!! UPDATE !!!
Joe has contacted the track and there are 1-2 more openings. I just hung up with Andrew and he is coming. Joe already sent up the check for Andrew.
Ray......keep myself or Joe posted if things develop and you can run your car.
Here's the list:
Vito
Compy
JAM
Joe
Bill Gray
Charlie
Steve
Teddy
Andrew
Bernie from NJ
I will NOT be available next Saturday until later afternoon around 3pm.
I will be upstate with the wife until Saturday morning. Saturday still seems to be the best day for a final meeting at Nick's to finalize the plans. But she offered to help me organize the place and set up beds. I now have the back end of this trip laid out . Refueling should be done on the thruway as the road side gas stations enroute do not appear accomodating to our caravan. What do you guys think about the following ?

- Compy mentioned he has a good early Friday morning ralley point off the LIE. This will be rush hour so we may need to meet 6am or earlier to get over the bridges. We can plan to stop for breakfast up the highway or keep rolling . Figure at trailer speed...3-3.5 hrs. I will try to "borrow" some radios from work for each car so we can talk around on the road.

- Directions to the track can be worked out with a map, perhaps hitting the NYS Thruway via Rte 684 to 84West looks good. Besides,after the Throggs Neck it may be in our interest to head up Rte 95 since the Cross BX would have to be murder. The track location is about 15 miles east of Thruway Exit 21-A, near the Ct. border. Joe advises he knows the way up. Lead car !

- This past weekend I drove from my house to NYS Thruway Exit 21,Catskill,
then mapped out the trip to my place. There is some mountanous terrain so I had to ensure we had the safest yet fairly direct route. I now have the best route mapped out. We must take it slow because some of the back roads are 30mph country twisties with not any real options if you roll over the road edge and start sliding into a stream !
Travelling at trailer speeds it's about 28 miles or 40 minutes from the Thruway.

For the return trip home we can go to Kingston Thruway Exit 19, coming from the north via Route 28. It's 45 minutes from the house and we will wind up 2 exits further south down the Thruway. I found an old diner on Rte 28, near the town of Phoenicia with a very large parking lot. We'll need the room to park.

At the housethere are ten single beds, 10 guys staying, Joe can bring an extra air bed, the place is small but the rear deck is big ...oh.. just one bathroom, hope you guys don't mind. Hey ! We're in the damn woods, burgers fired up, beer will be ICE cold , JD on the table , cigars burning with all wildlife fleeing for the hills !! My guess is the boys will be pretty beat by the end of this long day !

Since some guys don't log on and I won't make it Saturday June 3, I hope we can all stay in the loop .