2022 Jaguar F-Type East-Meets-West Tour
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From: Pennsylvania
Mid spring or early fall tend to be the best from my vantage point in PA. Roads are clear, snow is not in the offing and tends to be more availability of accommodations along the way due to schools being in session. Your advantage is that you have some more scenic roads out west coming east. Some of us coming from New England and our southern folks have some great scenic roads. Us mid Atlantic types have only highways. 
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From: Colorado Springs Co
Early fall?
As much as I would like to say spring I’m also thinking hail and tornadoes. Especially in Kansas. Spring and early summer the thunderstorms build over the mountains and then head out over the plains. We get nickel and quarter sized and it builds from there as you head east. Early fall is safer. It’s still warm and the hail is usually done. Late August early September.
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From: Colorado Springs Co
Let me know when you are in Co. I'd love to help with the scouting.
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Sounds like we've got a quite a few people interested and the fall time frame probably makes the most sense. Should we start a list of names and your current location so we have a better view of who's interested?
Also, any interest in planning a track day when we're all able to meet up in one central location?
1. Dat - DC area
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Also, any interest in planning a track day when we're all able to meet up in one central location?
1. Dat - DC area
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I know this isn't about me, but the notion that mass shootings would be peripheral to *my* life here in Marin, Sonoma, Monterey, or Boulder is truly ****ing insane. When the bubble pops, it's goes fast. Tragic.
BUT THE HAPPIER SIDE of a post-vaccine pandemic is that we will then head up to take some comp nights at FS Vail, then Dunton Hot Springs, then Amangani on the way back. Might ruin the experience with a night at FS Vegas too. Dunno. (Wife works for FS, but it does happen we were pretty loyal to them prior to her working there. Aman, Montage, and FS are no brainers.) =)
So if the roads are definitely clear, I'll pull up in the back of the pack somewhere along the line! Let's take the 50 East! =)
This was my initial route, but man I've taken the 80 so many damned times, and Southern Utah deserves it's own state vs SLC. =)
https://goo.gl/maps/5RJUEbzpSSu3yunr8
This was our 4K+ National Park trip, a few years back (we took many detours). I helped design/dev/rehab a historic building in the Presidio National Park of San Francisco, so checked out other lodges. It was the most wonderful thing. My energy level for road tripping has never been higher. Just need my jab.
https://maps.roadtrippers.com/?a2=t!...54746326465425
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From: Colorado Springs Co
Track day!
Sounds like we've got a quite a few people interested and the fall time frame probably makes the most sense. Should we start a list of names and your current location so we have a better view of who's interested?
Also, any interest in planning a track day when we're all able to meet up in one central location?
1. Dat - DC area
2.
3.
etc.
Also, any interest in planning a track day when we're all able to meet up in one central location?
1. Dat - DC area
2.
3.
etc.
High Plains Raceway is 2 hours east of Colorado Springs, an hour east of Denver. Check out their web
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St George,Utah HOOKUP
This is our plan. Marin to Boulder to visit a bunch of micro-brewing, band playing, happy college friend families now just struggling with the impact of the shooting. We'd planned this to be our post-vaccine 1st trip, anyway, but now it's more important. A Monterey/Santa Cruz local NPR person also lost her Dad at the King Soopers, a store I actually used to shop at. Then, the next morning, my wife is driving to Calistoga and gets re-routed in Yountville because of a purported active shooter (it turned out no shooter was discovered, but 3 women were murdered at the Vet hospital by a PTSD case a few years back, and the program there deals with some complex poor people).
I know this isn't about me, but the notion that mass shootings would be peripheral to *my* life here in Marin, Sonoma, Monterey, or Boulder is truly ****ing insane. When the bubble pops, it's goes fast. Tragic.
BUT THE HAPPIER SIDE of a post-vaccine pandemic is that we will then head up to take some comp nights at FS Vail, then Dunton Hot Springs, then Amangani on the way back. Might ruin the experience with a night at FS Vegas too. Dunno. (Wife works for FS, but it does happen we were pretty loyal to them prior to her working there. Aman, Montage, and FS are no brainers.) =)
I am in on this route. there are soooo many BEAUTIFUL and EXCITING sub routes along the way (with twisties!!) ...Our Vegas friends may join also!
Sparky
So if the roads are definitely clear, I'll pull up in the back of the pack somewhere along the line! Let's take the 50 East! =)
This was my initial route, but man I've taken the 80 so many damned times, and Southern Utah deserves it's own state vs SLC. =)
https://goo.gl/maps/5RJUEbzpSSu3yunr8
This was our 4K+ National Park trip, a few years back (we took many detours). I helped design/dev/rehab a historic building in the Presidio National Park of San Francisco, so checked out other lodges. It was the most wonderful thing. My energy level for road tripping has never been higher. Just need my jab.
https://maps.roadtrippers.com/?a2=t!...54746326465425
I know this isn't about me, but the notion that mass shootings would be peripheral to *my* life here in Marin, Sonoma, Monterey, or Boulder is truly ****ing insane. When the bubble pops, it's goes fast. Tragic.
BUT THE HAPPIER SIDE of a post-vaccine pandemic is that we will then head up to take some comp nights at FS Vail, then Dunton Hot Springs, then Amangani on the way back. Might ruin the experience with a night at FS Vegas too. Dunno. (Wife works for FS, but it does happen we were pretty loyal to them prior to her working there. Aman, Montage, and FS are no brainers.) =)
I am in on this route. there are soooo many BEAUTIFUL and EXCITING sub routes along the way (with twisties!!) ...Our Vegas friends may join also!
Sparky
So if the roads are definitely clear, I'll pull up in the back of the pack somewhere along the line! Let's take the 50 East! =)
This was my initial route, but man I've taken the 80 so many damned times, and Southern Utah deserves it's own state vs SLC. =)
https://goo.gl/maps/5RJUEbzpSSu3yunr8
This was our 4K+ National Park trip, a few years back (we took many detours). I helped design/dev/rehab a historic building in the Presidio National Park of San Francisco, so checked out other lodges. It was the most wonderful thing. My energy level for road tripping has never been higher. Just need my jab.
https://maps.roadtrippers.com/?a2=t!...54746326465425
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I'm fond of Hwy. 12, especially the section between Torrey and Escalante. I highly recommend it.
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From: Kalamazoo
I love this idea...my '21 F-Type R won't arrive until August '21, but I anticipate looking for all opportunities to drive...anywhen and anywhere. I'm in Kalamazoo, MI. I saw Wisconsin in this thread among others. I suggest Davenport, IA as a good meeting place for others in the North & Northereastern-Midwest?