Happy Holidays to all, and my most sincere wishes for an early Spring!

Kathy

Celebrate the holiday season with your fellow Mad City MINI enthusiasts! We will need to make a reservation so please RSVP by posting a comment here or emailing madcitymini@gmail.com

Friday 11/20/09
7-8:30pm
La Rocca’s Restaurant & Pizzeria
940 Williamson Street
Madison, WI 53703
608-204-9100

Come join Mad City MINI on a scenic and twisty mix to wrap up the driving weather portion of 2009.

This will be a roughly 5-hour drive, with breaks for a light lunch (bring snacks or picnic lunch) and dinner (at the Log Cabin in Baraboo).

We will be leaving at 11am from the Middleton Park and Ride near US 12 and Parmenter St (4001 Parmenter St, Middleton, WI,for your GPS).

There will be a Milwaukee-based group leaving from Burger King in Delafield (at the SE intersection of I-94 and Hwy 83 - the address is 2725 Heritage Dr, Delafield, WI, for your GPS) at around 9:00am and meeting us at the Middleton jump-off point. You will have time to fill-up on the way out if you need it. John will be leading this group over.

In addition to yourself and your lovely MINI, please pack a light lunch or snacks. Dinner will be between 5 and 6 pm and there will be some brief stops along the way, but no planned lunch stop - so either have a big breakfast or pack some food.

If you get lost, are running late, etc, please call Melissa @ (608) 445-5874.

What to bring:

The Chicago club is leaving the Beloit Rest stop at 9:00 am on October 3rd on a drive to New Glarus. I am planning to leave the American center park and ride at 7:45 a.m. to meet them. 

To reach the American Center park and ride, motorists should take US 151 exit 98B, head northwest on American Parkway, and turn right on East Park Boulevard.

Anyone interested to caravan down with me is welcome and asked to reply so I do not leave anyone behind if everyone who replied is at the park and ride early and we leave earlier.  Hope to have lots of Wisconsin MINI’s to welcome them.

Update :

here it the itinerary

Saturday:
9:00 AM - Depart Beloit Information Center

11:00 AM - Arrive Monroe
Lunch on your own, we’ll suggest some places
Photo op with all the MINIs on top of the Monroe parking garage

1:30 PM - Depart Monroe

3:00 PM - Arrive New Glarus Brewing Company, and another photo op
Dinner on your own

Sunday:
Breakfast at the Chalet Landhaus Inn. Those not staying at the inn, $12.50 a person
10:00 AM - Depart Chalet Landhaus Inn

Join us for a scenic back roads drive to Mt Horeb and the world famous Mustard Museum, about a 1 hour drive
11:00 AM - Arrive Mt. Horeb
Lunch on your own

12:30 PM - Depart Mt. Horeb
We depart for a 2 hour drive back to Monroe via more back country roads.
2:30 PM - Arrive Roth Käse Cheese Factory in Monroe

Come join Mad City MINI for a tour of Wisconsin’s Kettle Moraine state parks, and some scenic and fun roads.

September 5th we’ll be leaving Madison (East Town Park & Ride, at 5601 East Park Blvd. Madison, WI) at 11am.  From there we’ll head to meet our friends from other area clubs at the Park & Ride (384 N Watertown, Johnson Creek, WI) in Johnson Creek.  At noon we’ll head out for the drive, arriving in Elkhart Lake, WI between 4 and 5 pm for dinner at Three Guys and a Grill.

Please RSVP so we know how about many maps to have on hand for distribution to the drivers, and bring your GMRS radio set to Channel 15 Subcode 0.  Please arrive with a full tank of gas.  If you will need to eat between 11 and 4, please pack snacks or a lunch!

Join us on Wed 8/26 at 7pm for a Mad City MINI social at Market Street Diner, 110 Market Street, Sun Prairie. Enjoy dinner or just a sweet treat as we catch up on the MINI season and new developments in all things MINI (hint: Zimbrick).

Please reply to madcitymini@gmail.com or post a comment here if you will be there.

~The rest of the season at a glance~
Sat Sept 5 - Kettle Moraine Drive
Sat Oct 3 - Fox River Valley Drive
Sat Oct 10 - Seed Collection (Volunteer Project)
Sat Nov 7 - Wildcat Mountain Drive
Fri Nov 20 - Holiday Party

Please join us on Sunday, August 9th for the BothamVineyards & Winery Vintage Celebration, a one-day event commemorating the beauty, nostalgia and fitness of vintage sports cars, touring sedans, race cars and fine wine. This year, the featured marque is Austin Healey and our group’s own Mike S. will be showing his Healey off at the event!

Drew and Melissa have a fun route planned to the event. We will be meeting at Greenway Station in the southwest area of the parking lot right off of the main entrance on Greenway Blvd and plan to leave at 10am sharp. Feel free to show up early for coffee and general socializing.

There is an admission fee of $7 for adults and children under 12 are free. The event runs from 11am til 5pm. All registration fees as well as a portion of the day’s proceeds will be donated to the Infant Intensive Care Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison.

Food, drinks, and wine are available on-site. Carry-in alcohol and pets are not permitted. To register a pre-1990 automobile or racecar in the show, visit the entry information page on the Botham website.

If you will attend, please RSVP to mlpearson79@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Please join us for a driving tour of southwestern Wisconsin on Saturday, August
1 starting at 10:30am. We will meet at Steve’s, 8302 Mineral Point Rd, Madison.
http://www.stevesknows.com/locations_mineral.html

From there we will take a scenic drive to a handful of wineries/breweries in the
area and finish about 5pm for dinner at the Grumpy Troll in Mount Horeb.
http://www.thegrumpytroll.com/

Please email madcitymini@gmail.com if you will be there, to help us in making
the arrangements. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us for a road trip to Galena, IL!  We will meet on Sat 7/11 at 10:30 at the westside Target (201 Junction Rd, Madison WI 53717).  Look for us at the southwest end of the parking lot near the bank.

From there we will travel over hill and dale to Galena with a few surprise stops along a lovely drive that lasts about three hours.  Our route ends at the alpine slide* outside of Galena for those who wish to take a ride or enjoy the view.  A direct drive back should get you into the Madison area in just under two hours.

*More about the alpine slide: Ride a sled down 2,050 ft. of tailored track to the banks of the Mississippi at Chestnut Mountain Resort. The scenic lift carries you back to the top where on a clear day the three-state view is as much the attraction as the slide down.

Come join us Monday June 15th as we travel to the Sonic Drive In near Miller Park in Milwaukee for the Milwaukee MINI Monday: Ice Cream Social.
We will leave at 5:30 from the Arbys just off of County Road N at the I-94 Exit 244.
The Arbys address is 1603 Landmark Dr, Cottage Grove, WI.
The Sonic Drive In address is 2080 Miller Parkway.

Please respond if you will be going with us, so we can leave after everyone arrives.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come.

Happy Motoring

JonneyO