IRG reservation available $50

[Esteban]

I am unable to go to IRG 5.0 because my teardrop is too far from complete. I'm greatly disappointed. IRG 5.0 is sold out. I have a paid, confirmed, reservation for two people for sale in the For Sale section of tnttt for $50, which is what I paid. I hope someone here or a friend can go in my place.

Please post a reply, or pm me, if you are interested in using the IRG resevation. We can work out the details to get it done.

[dogscats]

What are the days

[Esteban]

IRG 5.0 starts Wednesday, July 2, 2014 and continues through Sunday night July 6th. $50 includes the camping fee and some meals. The pot luck(s) are wonderfully delicious. The location is Pamplin Grove a county park under the redwoods near Eureka, California.

Here is a YouTube from IRG 3.0 with Dean, Joanie and friends starting the BBQ to give you a flavor of what you'd get to enjoy if you come to IRG 5.0.

[S. Heisley]

Steve, you could go in a tent. A lot of people have done that, including me! What do you need to be able to go? Is there anything anybody can do to help?

[Esteban]

Sharon,

I went to Mendocino and IRG 2.0 in 2008 and slept in a tent. Had a great time. One of the best of my life. I well remember how chilly it was sleeping on an air mattress in a tent. My bones are now 6 years older. I've gone back and forth again and again thinking about it. I've now decided not to and confirmed that to Joanie. So, I'm putting my reservation for sale, with no markup. It gives someone else the opportunity to go and have a wonderful time.

With a lot of luck and work my teardrop might be ready enough (far from "done") in time for Kay's King's Canyon NP Tearjerkers camp out later in July. That's my new goal. Have a lot to do to make that happen. I gain a week's work time toward that if I stay home from IRG. Very mixed feelings about my choice. Need to pull up my big boy pants, focus, and get on with life.

If no one wants (buys me out of) the reservation I may end up going. Ron gave me an IRG 5.0 button when I helped him with his new teardrop about a week ago.

Sometimes I have too many projects to accomplish and to get done. So, I'll weep a little and focus my effort on getting to King's Canyon for my first trip in my hopefully by then roadworthy teardrop. Bad Steve. My house and garage seems too much like a teardrop parts warehouse with more parts arriving. I really really want to go camping in comfort off the ground this summer. So I need to pare down my projects and focus on my most important goals.

Next year I want to do another SLO Gathering. Maybe in Morro Bay SP.

[S. Heisley]

Steve, I sent you a PM.

[doug hodder]

Just so that there is no confusion. The 50$ fee does not include "some meals". It will include the meat dish on the Meat and Greet night. Potluck means that you bring a dish to share with others. Everyone always cooks, however, some much more than others, help doing the dishes or contributing to the expense of a meal is suggested, cuz someone somewhere is paying for it.

[Esteban]

how far into califronia is this? hows the east way to get there from 180 and I am thinking on it. I got some money stored up and work is so slow and I got a year in with my job they owe me a week of vacation. I wander if this is a possible thing to try and make it out. slow

Slow (Mike), Google Maps shows a route via 180 west that is 1,153 miles from Pavilion, WY to Pamplin Grove, near Eureka, California, where IRG happens. It estimates the trip would take 18 hours and 15 minutes. The route goes through Salt Lake City, Utah then through Elko and Reno, Nevada. It's a long drive almost all the way to the Pacific Ocean on the northern California coast. It might do you good to make some new friends and memories if you're up for it. You'd need a good chunk of gas money for a 2,300+ mile round trip. BTW, the speed limit towing a trailer in California is 55 mph.

Sharon, I got the PM. Doug corrected me when I wrote some meals are included...you get a steak one night and a spud and fixings on another. Other than that you're on your own. When I went in 2008 I had the good fortune to camp with people who shared cooking and clean up duties so we/I ate very well. I shared my food around our camp spot and for the potluck(s). If you come to IRG bring some pants in a bigger than normal waist size because you might (definitely will!) gain some weight.

[Roly Nelson]

Slow, if you can scrape up the bucks, this is the Gathering that you don't want to miss. Just imagine, all-day slow roasted beef, buried within an underground firepit plus all of the trimmings, and all you have to do is show up and bring your own plate, knife and fork. (Hey, if you are over 70, you can even buck the chow line, but keep that under your hat). This campground has the largest and tallest trees that you have ever seen in your life, and lots of stuff to do all week long. Campers are scattered all around, and you don't have to hike miles down forrested roads to check out all of the other friendly camping units. I never miss this one, it makes your proud that you are a teardrop/vintage trailer enthusiast and I look forward to meeting new, first time builders and enthusiasts, anxious to share their builds, buys or otherwise camping experiences. Come on Slow, how can you turn that down.

We are all looking forward to meeting the hard-working WY farmer, with the healing, broken heart, and we'll do all we can to ease the pain. Who knows, there may be a sweet young thing, that has always yearned for a relationship with a down-to-earth, hardworking, friendly cow-hand, that works hard from dawn to dusk and loves every minute of it. (Oh, by the way, there might even be some 80 year-old chicks, there that might enjoy meeting an octogenarian teardropper, but I won't hold my breath.) See Slow, there may be some light at the end of the tunnel after all. So, what do you say, hook up that teardrop you are so proud of and head West, we're all waiting to meet you, and see your smiling face, which will be smiling more broadly once you arrive in the famous redwoods.

Roly, attending again, with an out-of-the-box, odd-ball, aerodynamic, door-less, side and roofless TD :-)

[Vedette]

"Go West Young Man"
Good roads
Brian & Sandi
PS
It is 1,000 miles each way for us too!

[Esteban]

Slow pm'ed me that he is unable to come to IRG. The reservation is still available for one or two people to come to IRG.