Fall Vx Camping Meet

Where: Mogollon Rim Arizona (just north of Payson) with a side hiking trip to Tonto Natural Bridge
When: November 3rd (Sat) and 4th (Sun)
Why: Do we need a reason? See VX's, Meet their owners, just hang out, enjoy the scenery...
Bring: You, VX, camping gear, food, CB or FSR radio, comfy hiking shoes
The small details will be posted as the time gets nearer.
The camp site requires some very slight off roading (its a dirt road) so your VX will get dusty. No Mods are needed. A stock VX (or pretty much any car that does't sit on the ground) will do just fine.
The weather will be great...upper60's to mid 70's during the day and upper 30's to mid 40's at night. The camp fire will keep you warm though!

We will meet at the Tonto Natural Bridge State Park parking lot at 9:00am. Spend a few hours hiking around the Bridge, hang out and then head up the road a bit to the camp site.
There will be a caravan from Phoenix...meet time and place TBA.

So who will be coming up, down or from either side to join in?


Participants...
;Dy; Triathlete and wife
;Dy; Cryonman
;Dy; VCamilo
;Dy; TucsonVX
;Dy; VXCaver
;Dy; SBC and wife
;Dy; Thaverland
;Dy; phx99blackvx
;Dy; Uncle Asa

Possibles...
CrnCnn :thumbup:

Count me in!

Me too! Only I know where the secret camping spot is... :cool:

Bring all the Reno/Nevada VXers along with you Knigh7s! :dance:
We could have caravans coming in from the north and south!

So like great place to meet.

Clear your calandar Jeff! You've missed the last few.

Come on...everyone knows they want to be HERE !!!!

I put it on the calendar Billy.

FYI, I changed it so everyone can post events..

Thank you much! :thanx: :thumbup:

Do ya think I can get my VX up to enough speed to skip it across the ocean??

I lived in AZ for 15 years... Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa... I put about 20K miles of AZ fire road excursions on my hotrodded Type 4 VW Bus!! 30 minutes on Beeline Hwy and the city was behind me!!

I see the pics of The Rim and Moab in the Gallery and I get homesick for the southwest. :(

Hawaii is lots of fun, but Maui is really only about the size of the greater Phoenix area!! You can get in about all the four wheelin there is in a week... unless you know someone who knows someone and have keys to locked ranch gates. :_brickwal

BUT... the roads are enough of a challenge in and of themselves to merit owning an off road worthy vehicle.... such as a VX! :_steering

I wish you all the best of F U N!! Say high to the rim for me!! Bark at the moon!!!!! :cool:

If theres a will theres a way! Your always welcome to join us! :bwgy:

The weathers going to be great!

CrnCnn is a possible!

To the top for all the rest of you that want to climb aboard the bus! :yesy:
Roadtrip! :thumbup:

Just got a PM from SBC...he's on board for the trip! :thumbup:

3 months to go...



Anyone else thinking about joining us?

Most likely me with remote controlled VX :bgwo: Need to check if more VXs still available at store where I bought mine, so I can leave one or two to you, guys :-)

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/da...ium/ticket.jpg

Not a Photoshop!

Alexander, if your in the area you are definately welcome to join in. I'm sure we can find an extra seat, sleeping bag and tent for you! :bwgy:

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Originally Posted by Triathlete

Anyone else thinking about joining us?

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Triathlete-
I'm considering it.
It will probably end up being a last minute decision, but I will keep it in mind.


Asa-
you have any more pics of that RC VX up there ^ ?

Cryonman, we'll put you down as a possible maybe ;Dy; Would be cool to meet you there!

I might be bringing a friend or two... Just one Vehicle tho :)

You can leave me as a possible, but i maybe going to Mexico for work in that time frame.

About 2 months to go!

Thaverland has signed up to join us! Another Phoenix area VXer. Glad to have you on board for the trip.

That makes 7 + possibly 2 more VX's for the trip.

Looking for a bunch more VXers...I know your out there and want to come!

Only about 6 weeks to go!!!!!

phx99blackvx is in!

In case you didn't do the math that makes 8-10 VX's so far...Don't miss out! Come on...I know there are others in the vicinity. The weather will be cooler and the scenery awesome!

Okay, less than 4 weeks to go.
For those who will be pasing through Phoenix and want to join in the caravan...
We will meet Saturday morning at 6:15am
Meeting place will be the parking lot on the NW corner of Warner and Dobson Rd.'s
This will give us a litle leave way for a gas stop and a stop for last minute food, etc. in Payson before meeting up with everyone else at the Natural Bridge.
If anyone will be in Phoenix Friday night and would like to get together for a bite to eat let me know and we can work out a place and time.

If you have any questions or need directions let me know.

I'm in! At least for one day, but most likely for both :)

The closer we get to the "go" date, the more it looks like I won't be making it out there... :(

Hello all,

Glad to see were still on for the meet. Do we have reserved camp site(s) for saturday evening with the understanding that it will be tents and sleeping bags.
As for dinner, If anyone would like to meet up for dinner the night before, I would like to be in on that. I know that our meet place is in the east part of town, but for friday dinner, if I can make a suggestion, In Glendale, aprox 58th ave and Glendale, there is this fantastic German restraunt called Haus Murpheys, The food is outstanding, the atmosphere is baverian. I will be up for dinner no matter where it is, but I do think the place is worth the little extra drive if your in the area, just a suggestion. I will follow up on the post for dinner.

See ya in November :)

Knigh7s...that is to bad. Hopefully things will change and you'll still be able to attend. Keep us informed.

Alexander...are you going to be in Phoenix on for your job again? That is cool. Will you be needing a ride? Will you be needing any camping equipment? Let us know if you need anything. Will be nice to see you again.

phx99blackvx...we will see how many want to get together. But that sounds alright to me. We will figure it all out as it gets closer and we know who will be chowing down with us!

Haus Murpheys - I'll vote for that! It's hard to find good German food. In all of Tucson there's not one German restaurant any more.

Alexander - I have plenty of spare camping gear if you need anything.

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Originally Posted by Triathlete

Alexander...are you going to be in Phoenix on for your job again? That is cool. Will you be needing a ride? Will you be needing any camping equipment? Let us know if you need anything. Will be nice to see you again.

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This time just for vacation :D Things were changed and now I work for the different company, but I still have friends in Phoenix area and have enough bonus miles for the flight :) Also, I still have a dream to walk from one side of Grand Canyon to another (that planned for November 10th or 11th from North to South Rim ;)).

I will check with friend who be hosting me during my trip if he has sleeping bag for me (will I need anything else except of wear and food? :)).

3 WEEKS TO GO!!!!
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For everyone who is going to go to the meet let me know where you will be joining us....Phoenix to caravan up or at the Tonto Natural Bridge parking lot. This way we can make sure we leave no one behind.

If anyone needs directions to either of the meet spots let me know.

Also anyone else up for dinner Friday night in Phoenix...looks like Haus Murphy's will be the spot. phx99blackvx, can you post the adress for us? How does 5:30pm sound?

See everyone in 16 days!

Tri-

Don't take me off the 'maybe' list yet...but I'm all for in on this thing.
Since Saturday morning starts so early, I'd plan on getting in Friday afternoon.
So, I'd be down for dinner.

Could you recommend a decent place (or area rather) to stay Friday night?
Then again, the meet time is so early I could probably sleep in the VX!

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Originally Posted by cyronman

Tri-

Don't take me off the 'maybe' list yet...but I'm all for in on this thing.
Since Saturday morning starts so early, I'd plan on getting in Friday afternoon.
So, I'd be down for dinner.

Could you recommend a decent place (or area rather) to stay Friday night?
Then again, the meet time is so early I could probably sleep in the VX!

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Sounds good....anyone got a spare couch?
Any of you Phoenix guys got any sugestions?

TWO WEEKS TO GO!!!!!!!
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Hello all, Sorry so late on follow up.

The address for Haus Murphys:
5739 W Glendale Ave
Glendale, AZ 85301
(623) 939-2480

www.hausmurphys.com (to see the menu)

Glendale ave is a main road off of I17 that runs through the middle of Phoenix. If you are coming off of I17, you would exit off on Glendale ave and head west. The resturant is located in downtown Glendale, which is quite quaint. There is plenty of free on street parking on the side streets.

The pros to 5:30 will be that seating shoud be quick, the Cons is Rush hour traffic in Phoenix, but then again, I have never thought it was all that bad for the 5th largest city in USA.

I will check back the day before we meet for dinner and try to get headcount and call ahead, so If anyone wants to join us, please respond with the number of bodies.

See everyone soon,

Derek

Triathlete
We will meet up with everyone at the Tonto natural bridge parking lot ! its still on for 9:00AM???????
Should we bring firewood? never been up there so i don't know what the dead wood pickings are like