David - sincerely thanks so much for stepping up and organizing this - every year I always say "I want to join those folks" then I don't for whatever reason (cough....too shy....cough) but this year man I am doing it! I'll PM you my car's food order :lol:

^ My pleasure and glad you are joining the caravan. It's a good time and pretty laid back. You'll see some of the best sights around and get to hang out with fellow rotary heads :)

I'm in!

1) David Hayes
2) David Benson
3) Steve
4) Pete M.
5) Wendy Meshelle (Added from Rx8club)
6) Bob Todd (Added from Rx8club)
7) Steve Trask
8) Marco Lau
9) Mike Simonovich*
10) Erik Cardenas (Tem120)
11) Suky & Gordon Monsen
12) Kevin H
13) Josh H
14) Jerry K
15) Robert Watson
16) Michael Chu
17) Tim Farrell
18) Jamin
19) Dale Clark
20) Pensacola Jon
21) Michael Jones
22) Tommy Drane

Im hoping to make it!!

1) David Hayes
2) David Benson
3) Steve
4) Pete M.
5) Wendy Meshelle (Added from Rx8club)
6) Bob Todd (Added from Rx8club)
7) Steve Trask
8) Marco Lau
9) Mike Simonovich*
10) Erik Cardenas (Tem120)
11) Suky & Gordon Monsen
12) Kevin H
13) Josh H
14) Jerry K
15) Robert Watson
16) Michael Chu
17) Tim Farrell
18) Jamin
19) Dale Clark
20) Pensacola Jon
21) Michael Jones
22) Tommy Drane
23) Cameron Hall

Hey guys. PM me your food orders so we can ensure that the food is ready to go once we arrive at Berts. Robert, I have yours :)

Thanks for offering to do a pre-order on sandwiches! I will probably just wait until I get there, not sure until that moment what I'd be hungry or in the mood for :).

To bump this to the second page, here's the restaurant with their online menu -

Bert's Sandwiches & Salads

PM David Hayes if you'd like to pre-order a sandwich.

Dale

I'm in. just got car back together so it looks like i'll be able to make it this year

1) David Hayes
2) David Benson
3) Steve
4) Pete M.
5) Wendy Meshelle (Added from Rx8club)
6) Bob Todd (Added from Rx8club)
7) Steve Trask
8) Marco Lau
9) Mike Simonovich*
10) Erik Cardenas (Tem120)
11) Suky & Gordon Monsen
12) Kevin H
13) Josh H
14) Jerry K
15) Robert Watson
16) Michael Chu
17) Tim Farrell
18) Jamin
19) Dale Clark
20) Pensacola Jon
21) Michael Jones
22) Tommy Drane
23) Cameron Hall
24) Luke Bailey

1) David Hayes
2) David Benson
3) Steve
4) Pete M.
5) Wendy Meshelle (Added from Rx8club)
6) Bob Todd (Added from Rx8club)
7) Steve Trask
8) Marco Lau
9) Mike Simonovich*
10) Erik Cardenas (Tem120)
11) Suky & Gordon Monsen
12) Kevin H
13) Josh H
14) Jerry K
15) Robert Watson
16) Michael Chu
17) Tim Farrell
18) Jamin
19) Dale Clark
20) Pensacola Jon
21) Michael Jones
22) Tommy Drane
23) Cameron Hall
24) Luke Bailey
25) MFilippello

Sorry to bring up the food order stuff, but if you would send me your orders we could really speed up the process of lunch. I have orders for:

1) Robert
2) Wendy

The rest of you are slackers :)

Guess I'm one of the slackers :lol: If you're taking lunch orders, I'll have the chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries. Thanks for organizing this David :icon_tup:

Pete

^ Too funny, not anymore! I have food orders for:

1) Robert - BLT with chips and a medium soft drink
2) Wendy - Driver - Club sandwich sub fries for the chips Navigator - Chicken Time sandwich add both cheese and bacon plus add a side of Fabulous Fries
3) Jerry - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich.. minus the tomato
4) Pete - Chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries
5) Tommy - Chipotle Chicken sandwich, with fries, no onion or pickle

Keep them coming!

Heading out now to drive the route and meet with Bert's so we have no surprises on Friday.

I have food orders for:

1) Robert - BLT with chips and a medium soft drink
2) Wendy - Driver - Club sandwich sub fries for the chips Navigator - Chicken Time sandwich add both cheese and bacon plus add a side of Fabulous Fries
3) Jerry - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich.. minus the tomato
4) Pete - Chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries
5) Tommy - Chipotle Chicken sandwich, with fries, no onion or pickle
6) Eric H. - 1) All American burger 2) Baked potatoe with salad bar.

Drove the route yesterday and it's going to be a great time. Even though it was raining, beautiful scenery for sure with a nice ending run on the Tail of the Dragon. Had the wife and dog with me in the wife's Miata so we didn't blast thru the Tail but that was a good thing as the TN cops were out in full force. Going to have to watch that on Friday. Also saw two motorcycle guys that went over the rails. They were fine but their bikes not so much so :( That's the result of a little rain on the road with over aggressive driving.

Ate lunch at Bert's to test it out. Food is fine (better than Hardees) and Bert and wait staff very nice and helpful. Good lunch spot with plenty of parking and right around the 1/2 way point so I'd say we give it a shot. Not gourmet food but okay.

Keep those food orders coming and I will see you on Friday!

1) Robert - BLT with chips and a medium soft drink
2) Wendy - Driver - Club sandwich sub fries for the chips Navigator - Chicken Time sandwich add both cheese and bacon plus add a side of Fabulous Fries
3) Jerry - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich.. minus the tomato
4) Pete - Chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries
5) Tommy - Chipotle Chicken sandwich, with fries, no onion or pickle
6) Eric H. - 1) All American burger 2) Baked potatoe with salad bar.
7) Tim F - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with fries (not chips)

Thanks for organizing this. Added my order.

Added my order :)


1) Robert - BLT with chips and a medium soft drink
2) Wendy - Driver - Club sandwich sub fries for the chips Navigator - Chicken Time sandwich add both cheese and bacon plus add a side of Fabulous Fries
3) Jerry - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich.. minus the tomato
4) Pete - Chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries
5) Tommy - Chipotle Chicken sandwich, with fries, no onion or pickle
6) Eric H. - 1) All American burger 2) Baked potatoe with salad bar.
7) Tim F - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with fries (not chips)
8) Steve C. - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich all the way, with fries

Thank you.

My order was the #6 , It was a bit strange since I have no idea where the H came from .. but the wierder thing is .. for some reason there is a link to Ebay when you click my name :scratch::scratch:

1) Robert - BLT with chips and a medium soft drink
2) Wendy - Driver - Club sandwich sub fries for the chips Navigator - Chicken Time sandwich add both cheese and bacon plus add a side of Fabulous Fries
3) Jerry - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich.. minus the tomato
4) Pete - Chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries
5) Tommy - Chipotle Chicken sandwich, with fries, no onion or pickle
6) Eric H. - 1) All American burger 2) Baked potatoe with salad bar.
7) Tim F - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with fries (not chips)
8) Steve C. - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich all the way, with fries
9) Mike S. - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with chips

1) Robert - BLT with chips and a medium soft drink
2) Wendy - Driver - Club sandwich sub fries for the chips Navigator - Chicken Time sandwich add both cheese and bacon plus add a side of Fabulous Fries
3) Jerry - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich.. minus the tomato
4) Pete - Chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries
5) Tommy - Chipotle Chicken sandwich, with fries, no onion or pickle
6) Eric C.. - 1) All American burger 2) Baked potatoe with salad bar.
7) Tim F - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with fries (not chips)
8) Steve C. - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich all the way, with fries
9) Mike S. - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with chips

Eric, I probably had a typo with the "H". Pulled your info off of the DGRR website. It's "C" right? As for the links, I have no idea. They seem to add by themselves. Just noted my name on the first post now has the following link: "The Body of David Hayes by Ridley Pearson ". Does this not bode well for our Friday cruise? :)

LMAO! dont worry man me and my friend were having a nice laugh about it , and yes C is fine but when its time for the bill H is even better .

Dale, whats the exact route you are taking from the lodge over to the skyway?

1) Robert - BLT with chips and a medium soft drink
2) Wendy - Driver - Club sandwich sub fries for the chips Navigator - Chicken Time sandwich add both cheese and bacon plus add a side of Fabulous Fries
3) Jerry - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich.. minus the tomato
4) Pete - Chipotle chicken sandwich with a side of fries
5) Tommy - Chipotle Chicken sandwich, with fries, no onion or pickle
6) Eric H. - 1) All American burger 2) Baked potatoe with salad bar.
7) Tim F - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with fries (not chips)
8) Steve C. - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich all the way, with fries
9) Mike S. - Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with chips
10) Luke B. - 1) All American Burger with fries
11) Riya B. - 1) Toasted Italian Submarine Sandwich with chips

Just a thought, with the current forecast, does it not make sense to swap the Friday and Saturday day time events? The rain is really going to put a damper on the drive not to mention the photoshoot at the dam.

If the weather seem bad can you guys move it to Sunday?

^ Don't think so Phil. Most guys are leaving then so I say we do this on Friday. How about the picture at the Dam? Let us know if you are going to move that to Saturday.

The drive is great regardless. Just drove it last Sunday and it rained part of the way. Still a great trip.

So it's a go Friday rain or shine. The route we will take to get to the Skyway will have us turning left out of the resort and then taking a left on 28 as if we were going to the Tail. We will then take a left at 143 and cut across to Robinsville. It's the Skyway from there.

I think this is a really quick moving front. I bet we don't even see rain the entire day.

Moving it to Sunday won't work, everyone is ready to head home that day. No one will want to
do a 5+ hours trip and then get back in the car and head home for another multi hour trip.

Swapping the Sat and Fri events seems pointless. Look at last year. It rained at the car show
Sat all day but out on the dragon it was dry most of the day, no rain. Its the mountains, weather
is part of the fun :)

^ What he said. It looks like it will rain but regardless, it's going to be a really good drive. Come on out and let's do this thing. See you Friday.