+Bartster Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 (edited) Okay all you West Tennesseans (and others if you wish to join us!), the time has come for us to get together and put faces with those screen names! The purspose of the event, will simply be to gather and meet each other, and eat! I don't plan on setting any 'caching activities for this first gathering. Although we can organize an event cache at this gathering where we will go caching. I post this thread to see when the best time would be for everyone to meet. I was originally going to plan the event for a week night, like a Tuesday or Thursday, but then I thought I should post a thread to see if a week night or a weekend would be the biggest draw. Please reply to this thread to let me know when would be best for you and I'll try to accomodate as many as possible. So what do you think, WEEKEND or WEEK DAY? If weekday, WHAT DAY? Edited August 18, 2004 by Bartster Quote Link to comment
+Spencersb Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 Depends on who you want to draw from "West Tennessee." The folks in an around Memphis are having this event: MidSouth Hotwings Hangover 3 (I'm sure you already know about this, but not everyone in the forum will) If you want to draw folks from all over West TN, a weekend afternoon would probably be better since some folks may have a longer drive than they could do after work during the week. I'm game if I can fit it around Saturday AM soccer games, which are already cutting WAY into my caching time! Quote Link to comment
+Bartster Posted August 19, 2004 Author Share Posted August 19, 2004 Yeah, I should've mentioned Bit's annual Hot Wangs Event. I'm looking mainly to draw the newer folks in and around rural West TN. But I would love to have anyone and everyone from Memphis or Nashville that would want to attend. Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Sounds cool. A weekend would probably be best for the largest crowd from rural areas. The largest crowd from the urbanized SW corner was on a Tuesday night (that's excluding the first picnic where numbers were skewed because Salvo's whole family was there ). Quote Link to comment
+primofam Posted August 19, 2004 Share Posted August 19, 2004 Sounds great. We are new to this but would love to meet people who enjoy this. My wife is starting to think I've gone crazy. "He's always looking for jeeps. JEEPS, JEEPS, JEEPS!" Go figure. Weekend would be great. Just let me know the coordinates. Quote Link to comment
+West Tn Dawg Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 A saturday afternoon would be best for me! I'll try to make it if nothing comes up! Quote Link to comment
+Gibbenator Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 I'm going to do my best to try and come. The best day for me would definitely have to be a weekend lunch or weekend afternoon. Preferably a Saturday. Let's see..... if I leave Memphis at 8:00 am that should just about give me enough time to get Just Ducky - Revived Quote Link to comment
+yogi and dolphin Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 (edited) best time for us is a weekend, time does not matter. i work nights and leah works days, so the weekend is best for us. hope we can work this out, there are so new names in the jackson area, and we would enjoy meeting everyone in our area. thanks bartster. Edited August 20, 2004 by yogi and dolphin Quote Link to comment
+icashootnstar Posted August 22, 2004 Share Posted August 22, 2004 Jackson and I would be open to any time of the week. We do a lot of travelling and hope we'll be in the region for the get together! Please keep us informed! Thanks, Shannon Quote Link to comment
+CWL Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I'm going to do my best to try and come. The best day for me would definitely have to be a weekend lunch or weekend afternoon. Preferably a Saturday. Let's see..... if I leave Memphis at 8:00 am that should just about give me enough time to get Just Ducky - Revived I'm with Gib! I'd be there and try to hit Just ducky while I'm there! Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 I'm going to do my best to try and come. The best day for me would definitely have to be a weekend lunch or weekend afternoon. Preferably a Saturday. Let's see..... if I leave Memphis at 8:00 am that should just about give me enough time to get Just Ducky - Revived I'm with Gib! I'd be there and try to hit Just ducky while I'm there! You'll have to bring your cool new inflatable kayak this time... I know the route I'll take to that cache, and it doesn't involve wading across a leech-infested pond. Quote Link to comment
+chili36 Posted August 23, 2004 Share Posted August 23, 2004 Count me in. Weekend works best. Quote Link to comment
+primofam Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 (edited) CWL, while you are looking for ducky. Don't go my route. I may try to get back in there and change out the geocoin with a yjtb I picked up but I'm not sure I want to try it again. Weekends will be good for the meet N eat. Edited August 25, 2004 by primofam Quote Link to comment
+Gibbenator Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 It's too late, Chuck found the original Just Ducky by swimming to it Quote Link to comment
+primofam Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I was wondering whose footprints those were! There was NO way I was going in that way but I think it was only 60 or so feet from the edge of the water. I was very tempted! Quote Link to comment
+Tuck Sackett Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Saturday afternoon's are good for me, execpt for the third weekend each month when I have to drive boats for my rich uncle. I missed the hot wings because I don't check the forums enough, so, Bitbrain or Chuck please let me know when a final date is set. thanks. Quote Link to comment
+Bartster Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 It looks like a Saturday is the unanimous choice. As soon as I get the fall soccer schedules, I'll pick a date and location. I was considering the 3rd or 4th Saturday of September. Probably the 4th Saturday, as I don't want to do it too quickly, to prevent people missing it who don't check the forums very often. Thanks for all the input, and I'll keep you posted. Quote Link to comment
+bikr Posted August 29, 2004 Share Posted August 29, 2004 Well, I love the idea of getting together, but I like some others I'm sure work evening shifts, so I prefer WEEKEND like a Saturday. Not Friday, because well, guess what I work then, too. Looking forward to being a part of this!! Quote Link to comment
+leavearock Posted September 2, 2004 Share Posted September 2, 2004 Last Saturday looks good to me. Any thing but 2nd Friday or 3rd Saturday is OK. I goto Memphis then Quote Link to comment
+Bartster Posted September 10, 2004 Author Share Posted September 10, 2004 The cache event web page is finally posted!! Click the link and post a note! First Ever West Tennessee Geo Gathering!! (outside of Shelby County that is!) The Place: You figure it out! The Date: Sept. 25, 2004 The Time: 6:00 p.m. until Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Any of y'all with kids ever watch Milo & Otis. It a live-action movie about this dog & cat that leave the farm and go on an adventure... Anyway, it has one of those pervasive songs that just seems to stick with you forever after you've heard it. Kind of relates to caching too. The oft-repeated chorus is: Gonna take a walk outside today Gonna see what we can find today. Hope to see some of y'all at the gathering. Too bad Jackson's biggest tourist attraction is closed (according to Bartster). Quote Link to comment
+Gibbenator Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Heading out this week to do some TB harvesting in the area to bring to the event . There is a cache close by my work called M-town Mobland, Part I: The Botched Drop that has some stranded Bugs and a Geocoin in it that were put there last April. I'm hoping to do Just Ducky - Revived as my 200th Find. I'm pretty sure Spencersb, TuckSackett, and myself are going to come up a little early and try to pick off some in the Jackson Area before the event and anyone else is welcomed to join us. Spencersb has graciously offered to bring up to 7 up in his minivan. I think the plan is to meet at the I-40 Rest Area in Arlington and carpool from there. Email myself or Spencersb for the exact departure time later this week. Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted September 22, 2004 Share Posted September 22, 2004 I'm still hoping to make it to the event. Don't know for sure what the family schedule for the weekend is yet, though. If all goes to plan, I should be able to add another 10 to my list of found caches on Saturday. Quote Link to comment
+Bartster Posted September 23, 2004 Author Share Posted September 23, 2004 I'm still hoping to make it to the event. Don't know for sure what the family schedule for the weekend is yet, though. If all goes to plan, I should be able to add another 10 to my list of found caches on Saturday. Excellent Bit! Looking forward to seeing you again! Don't forget that you can log Just Ducky again! I think we're gonna have a pretty good turn out for the event. I think several from the west TN area are gonna show up. Sorry about your favorite resting place being closed down. I'm sure it will be open again sometime in the future under a new name and location! Quote Link to comment
+primofam Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 Hey everybody. I just added a YJTB to just ducky. With enough coming into town, I'm sure ducky will get traffic. You can either grab the YJTB or there is a "key" in this cache as well. If you grab this one, you can claim a YJTB at the geogathering. No key-no jeep. Please don't take BOTH jeep and the key. Let the next cacher grab the other. See every one there. Quote Link to comment
+primofam Posted September 26, 2004 Share Posted September 26, 2004 AWESOME gathering. Thanks Bartster for setting this up. Looking forward to the next one. Quote Link to comment
+Bartster Posted October 9, 2004 Author Share Posted October 9, 2004 I'm gonna archive the event page in a week or so. I think only one or two people haven't logged it yet. There's also a travel bug still dropped on the web page. Whoever has it, please grab it before I archive the page. Thanks again to everyone who participated!! It was a blast! Quote Link to comment
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