Hey all, I have a great news here.
We have been working closely with Toyota and they have offered up something pretty cool. As a token of our appreciation we ran a little contest of sort in the Mod section and Bluemeanie won the battle to get an all expense paid trip testing an FJ Cruiser on a wilderness trail in Birmingham, AL October 13 - 15, which includes lodging and meals compliments of Toyota. Im sure you will all agree that Eric is a good person to be representing toyotanation and we all appreciate his hard work and dedication over the years. Congrats Eric and Thanks
Eric said that he will bring his camera along and and keep you all posted on how the event goes. Im not sure of all the details myself so Ill let Eric post in here up to date info and hopefully he will provide us with some good pics of his trip.
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I'll keep you all updated as everything progresses.
As of now I've spoken with Toyota's rep and I will be leaving on the red-eye from St.L International Airport on the October 13th ... uh ... I just realized thats Friday the 13th ...
Once I get my finalized info I'll post more!
Thanks again to everyone. We make TN the place it is and thats why Toyota came to us.
GRO is 5 miles from my house.
My words of stuff to know:
Toyota may have rented OGR just for yall. If it's a open day; BE WEARY of the tons of hot chicks that'll be offroading there. I'd say 3/4 of them are in high school. And yes... They go out in full force & tend to be .
Don't stray far outside the hotel at night. You're in downtown b'ham which is *not* a safe place to be. You're not staying too far from some of the club district tho, so... It won't be bad. There's nothing really to see, so... Don't worry about sight-seeing. Get a ride, or a taxi if you wanna have fun. Don't chance walking afew blocks. Alabama is very low crime, Especially in the outlieing Birmingham area. But for reasons, the actual city of Birmingham has insanely high homicide rates.
Eat at Milo's. (You want a #2 no onions, sweet tea. It's obligitory.), and a real BBQ place. Dreamland. Costa's.
WTF We don't eat Jambalaya here... That's 800 miles away in Lousiana. Bring pocket money! I can't name a single good cajin/creole restraunt in the greater b'ham area. The ONE we had closed downy ears ago & I've been to the bayou, it wasn't nearly as good as that.
There's afew parties if you wanna skip whatever dull stuff they have planned at night. Sounds like they're just ditching you at the hotel LMAO!
I'm taking my little cuz to T-town sat for a bama game. He's wanting to hang out down there & then party most of the night. Might be able to gank a third ticket if you don't have anything to do that afternoon / evening. Or maybe we can drive back & forth. The time on the game is TBA tho. Generally afternoon - evening for SEC games. Lemmie know on that.
You'll like the airport tho. It's tiny & clean LoL! No hassles.
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I just got my itinerary and this is where we're headed - www.grayrockorv.com/Home.htm ... check out the pictures section.
Looks like this is gonna be one sweet ride through the country!
Holly Crap !!!!
Kool !!!!
Taking any "partners" with you???
Need a dude that can tend to the FJ's needs?? ... i.e... oil change/maintenance/cleaning,.. get coffee for you????....
well, everything is packed, I'm uploading one final movie to my iPod (Top Gun) and I'm waiting for my ride to the airport. If I have a sec to get on line at the hotel I'll post some pics ... otherwise you all will have to wait til I'm home.
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