Colorado

Let me introduce myself, I'm Tim Barnes and this will be my fourth National Corvette Caravan! This will be the third National Corvette Caravan that I've lead. The caravans are experiences that are not to be missed!

It's pretty early in the game to have many details on the arrangements yet as most of the places that we want to reserve aren't taking reservations for 2009 yet. However, the plan at this point is to do pretty much what we did for the 50th Anniversary Caravan.

Monday night, August 31st, 2009, we'll plan to have a sponsored BBQ - hopefully at the Aurora Sports Center to welcome the other caravans that will be stopping in Denver for the night. We should have some deals worked out with hotels in the general area as the date gets closer.

We will plan to leave Denver from the Aurora Sports Complex (on the far east side of Denver) first thing Tuesday morning September 1st 2009. Unfortunately, it will be a very long day as there is not much between Denver and the Kansas City, Missouri area that will accommodate the huge number of participants that we expect. The drive will be around 600 miles. We probably will also leave everyone on their own for lunch as well. The only town large enough to host a lunch across Kansas is Hays, but waiting until Hays for lunch has not worked out very well in the past.

Unlike previous caravans, the Kansas caravan will probably be stopping overnight in St. Louis. It is a 3+ hour drive to cross Missouri, so I doubt that we will be catching up with that caravan. I'll have to see if I can recruit anyone in the KC area to set up a meeting point for us to jump off from in the KC area.

My plans for Wednesday are to head straight to the museum from KC via I-70 and I-64 catching the Audubon Parkway in Kentucky from Evansville, Indiana and then catching the Natcher Parkway into Bowling Green. The drive through Kentucky across the Natcher is beautiful. This should put us into Bowing Green in the late afternoon just in time to check into your hotels. Lunch on Wednesday will also be on your own as it is just too difficult to arrange for a lunch stop for hundreds of cars.

No matter how you stack it, participating in the caravan is one of the best experiences that you will ever have and with a little luck and your support of the museum, we may be in for the grand opening of new parts of the museum. Please remember to support the museum building campaign!

Tim Barnes
Captain



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