Archive for category Trips

The first batch of photos are now up from the club’s trip to Flat Nasty last weekend, courtesy of Bill Gangloff.  The trip included a detour to the St. Louis Transportation Museum, where the boys looked at some cool old trains including the enormous 1941 “Big Boy” pictured here, used to haul across the continental divide.  More photos are coming so stay tuned.

As always, if you have photos or videos to share from any trip, please let me know.  I will bring my laptop to the meeting if you want to bring a disc, flash drive or device with you.

Easter Weekend the club will be going to Flat Nasty in Jadwin, Missouri.  Plans are underway now in the forum.  If you want to participate in the food and lodging plans, post up.  The club is kicking in $100 for the food budget for this trip as per our March meeting.  Alternatively, if you’re not going, you can feel sorry for yourself here (thank you, resident Mr. Smarty Pants).

The first of many photos from the club’s St. Patrick’s day trip to The Badlands are now up.  There were a lot of cameras snapping on this trip so I hope to get many more soon; upload ‘em if you’ve got ‘em.  If you need directions, let me know.

EDIT: More added from Jon Martin.

EDIT 2: More from the Bardings.

The club’s scheduled trip to the Badlands is on for Saturday, March 17th.  Check out the forum for the details; please post if you’re planning on joining us.  If you’re leaving from the Peoria area, you can join the caravan at 6:30am at the Mobil station off the I-74 Morton exit.

In other news, apparently my complaints worked… photos from Larry Wilson are now part of the Inspections collection.  Thanks Larry!

Finally got time to get all the events for 2012 put into our online calendar of events; sorry that took so long.  Alternatively, you can also download a PDF of the finalized schedule for easy printing, circling-on and refrigerator-hanging.  As you’re planning which events you’d like to attend, please remember that it’s always a good idea to visit the forum to see who else is going, make travel and food plans, etc.  You don’t want to show up and be the only one there when the rest of the club chickens out because of a rare Missouri hurricane.

Speaking of the schedule, our next event is the Annual Banquet at the American Legion in Pekin on January 14th at 6pm, where we’ll be having a delicious home-cooked meal prepared by our own Jan Brown as well as all of you (please bring a dish to share).  We’ll also be premiering the 2011 MIJC video, which promises to be the best yet… no hints on the topic, sorry!   Plus, there will be drawings for prizes.  Hope to see you all there.  There’s also a pre-party at Jill’s house; all are invited.

If you haven’t already, please submit $5 per person to Jill Martin for the banquet so we can plan for food.  We need your $$$ and reservation by January 1st so hurry up and drop a check in the mail.  You can also include $30 to re-up your membership for 2012 if you haven’t done that yet either.  Don’t forget to print out and fill out a membership form and include it with your check.

Until the 14th, I wish everyone a happy holiday season.