Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:29:53 -0500
Reply-To: Bill Bowman <bill@BNNTA.COM>
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From: Bill Bowman <bill@BNNTA.COM>
Subject: VW Camping this weekend...
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Come one, come all!
B.N.N.T.A. - "Buses Nowhere Near The Arch #22"
When: this upcoming weekend, Friday Aug 31st thru Monday Sept 3rd, the entire Labor Day holiday weekend.
Where: in the group campground in the Indian Creek Recreational Area located right on Mark Twain Lake in NE Missouri. We have again leased the ENTIRE campground so we can host an all VW camping weekend. Only VWs will be admitted...any year and model of VW...but it must be a VW.
Our group campground is a beautiful, heavily wooded location for our event, built lakeside by the Corps of Engineers, features quite a few sites with access to electric, two nice buildings with restrooms (one with nice hot/cold showers), a playground, a covered pavillion, a nearby boat ramp into the 22 mile long lake, a nearby marina, etc. Individuals and VW clubs from all over the Midwest will be enjoying each others company for the long holiday weekend.
There is NO pre-registration available, just check in with us upon arrival and we'll quickly fix you up for the weekend.
On Saturday we'll run a caravan over a scenic route to historic Hannibal, MO to enjoy the sights of the childhood home town of Samuel Clemens (aka, "Mark Twain"). Enjoy the towns' historic landmarks and sights and then return to the BNNTA event at your leisure. Later on participants will stroll the campground to visit and vote for their personal favorites for awards later that evening. On Sunday we'll relax and enjoy the lake. Slow drags will also be hosted.
BNNTA event T-shirts will be available and the first 100 VWs will receive an event dash plaque at registration. Be sure to use your creativity to decorate your VW campsite, both for the fun of it and to compete in our site decoration contest (both individual and group decorating).
While it's been hot lately, the latest weather forecast now calls for excellent weather this weekend! A cool front moves in on Thursday and the forecasts for the weekend are calling for clear skies and daytime high temps of only 85 degrees! Any you'll enjoy your sleep with nightime lows in the mid-60's! Perfect camping weather!!!
Please feel free to bring along any VW related items that you'd like to donate to the growing door prize give-away on Saturday evening.
We've kept the event and camping fee as low as we can, lower than pretty much any other similar camping weekend. The total fee per VW is only $30 for the entire weekend regarless of how long you visit.
Visit our site for basic info at http://www.bnnta.com where there is a Mapquest link with directions (Yeah, one of these days we'll spice the site up a bit more!).
So there you have it! If you've been thinking about joining us, take advantage of the long weekend and great weather forecast and start packing up the Bus to join us for all the festivities. It's never too late, and there's always room for more around our VW campfire!
Bill & Kathryn Bowman
