The Goat Herd

Congratulations to Holly & DuWyne! Old Car Weekly just announced the winners of their “GOLDEN QUILL AWARD” for outstanding newsletters from all kinds of car clubs around the country. Thanks to Holly’s and DuWyne’s hard work, the REDLINE TIMES won one of the awards! Grrreat job!!!!

On the road again…we left Salem on Sunday morning. After saying goodbye to our dogs, Victor, Michelle, Aramis and Bella we actually left at 7. A gas stop and another stop to fix the sway bar and we were really off to Kansas.
This trip is bringing back a lot of memories of the trip to Denver in ? We passed the spot where we had a photo op changing Paul’s trailer tire with only one tree for us all to gather under to eat ice cream while we waited for the boys to finishing playing.
On we went to Boise where we didn’t stop but could see the hotel from the freeway. On toward Ogden we spotted the rest area where we remember Paul Walrath scraping something off his shoe after a group shot of behinds. About this time we started looking for a place to stop for the night and pulled into Best Rest. I forgot that we had stayed there on the way home from Denver. I looked at the pool and remembered seeing Nick horsing around and I sort of remember someone getting pushed into the water and coming out with a wet billfold. I am going to have to get those pictures out when I get home.
So far we have gone 785 miles with 1200+ to go.
We are pulling the car on a trailer (thank you George & Nick), so of course there has to be a problem. DuWyne got the pigtail tight so it wouldn’t drag but didn’t leave enough room for a tight turn and pulled the wires out of the plug. I am writing this while we are waiting to get it fixed in Green River- more memories of a Chinese restaurant and rooms so small we had to go outside to change our minds. The beer was cold and good. Of course we had another photo op while someone had an axle changed out. Paul had one in that trailer of his. I still believe he had a totally disassembled car in there.
We are going to go to Colorado Springs and into Nebraska before turning south to Wichita. More tonight.
We are back on the road with repairs completed. We are planning to stop in North Platt tonight.
The trip has been absolutely wonderful, no rain, no high winds and you need to really take a road trip to appreciate the beauty of this wonderful land we call home. More tomorrow.
6/29 We have arrived. It’s good to unpack and the very first persons we saw was Tom Szymczyk (I couldn’t remember his name except as “spellcheck”) and Bob Alexander. Bob was wearing this year’s Tiger Run polo shirt, sure made me happy. The hotel is nice, undergoing construction; everything is very close except for restaurants. We are going to be busy with the show, so I’ll update as I get a chance.
7/4/10
This is the last day of the convention, non stop talking, explaining that it does not rain all the time. Most of the people we talk to have never been to the Pacific Northwest. Unbelievable… at the same time there are a lot that are considering coming over the Rocky Mountains for the first time. Some are looking at flying; others are talking about taking family vacations. It is really nice to see some of our friends from Colorado, New Mexico and others that have been to Tiger Run in the past. Even if people have not been to Tiger Run they have heard from others about what a great time we have. Our club has a great deal of respect among other clubs. Many are looking for others that were here in ’98 or in Denver in ’02. I wish we could have had a larger presence here. Time to get a shower and back to the table, I will update everyone again after the awards tonight. Don’t forget that snail mail newsletters will not go out until after we are home.

The Herd wants to thank everyone for their continued support of TIGER RUN. Our 20th anniversary show is in the history books, and it was most successful and very well attended. So we head for 2011, and NO TIGER RUN!! Instead, the Herd is hosting the 2011 GTOAA International Meet in Portland, Oregon! This is the first time the meet has been further west than Denver. Start planning now for the week of July 4th, 2011–you won’t want to miss this one!!! Details should be on this website as things progress, so stay tuned! Registrations should be available shortly after this years GTOAA meet in Witchita. TIGER RUN will continue in 2012 on Memorial Day weekend.

Folks, it’s been a long time coming and here it is … the new Goatherd web site. We’ll be working out the kinks, getting content up to date and making sure Gulley knows how to work the controls. I hope you like the new format and it makes things better as you gear up for Tiger Run 2010, the Summer Dream Cruise and then the 2011 GTOAA Nationals!

Cheers,

Ty

The Goat Herd GTO Club of Oregon has been awarded the 2011 GTOAA International Convention!!  First time on the West Coast!!  Following this years convention in Witchita, information will be coming fast, and posted on this web site.  Start making your plans to attend, you don’t want to be the only one that didn’t make it!!!!!

Stay tuned for updates…………………….

2009 Goat Herd Membership Application

To keep our Web site looking as good as it does, (pretty isn’t it?  Thanks Ty) the club asked for a volunteer to post new items and keep the content to that which makes us proud.  Once we had our volunteer the word bovine first came to mind, then the word steer just poped up. The first Goat Herd Web Steer is Jim Gulley he volunteered (OK I promised to let him breath again) to be the ‘go to’ person with things you want to have posted on the Web site .  Gulley can be contacted at grn64gto@msn.com