May 2021 – Letter to Dogwood
Hello all Dogwood folks! Here is some other news I want to share with you.
25th Anniversary Rally at Americamps, September 17-19: I talked with Connie Tilman; she asked me to tell you to make your reservations there ASAP – the campground is filling up. She will be talking with her committee members this week to get started on the gathering prizes, sponsors, etc. Americamps is now allowing 50 people inside its rally room, and by mid-June, that limit will go to 100. For the continuation of our celebration at the GEAR rally (9/30 – 10/3), we have two rooms reserved; one for the Happy Hour and reception, and one for the band (yes, we are having a band!). Our Eastern Area president, Gaye Young will be attending our reception. Hey Connie, please chime in here – have I got all this right?
I also talked with Jim Kirby, manager of Americamps about our 25th Anniversary weekend. We still have 13 sites open for Dogwood members. That particular weekend in September is very busy, and there will be two other RV Club rallies there with us, so please get your site picked out. There are no changes to the infrastructure – same campground layout and roads as before, and weather permitting, the pool may be open. If you are fully vaccinated, you can go about outside maskless; otherwise you are asked to mask up. We will have full use of the rally room and equipment – oven, refrigerator, sink, etc. at no extra cost. However, due to Covid restrictions, Mr. Kirby had to change from a pancake breakfast to a continental breakfast for Saturday mornings, and the refrigerator may be full up with stocked food. We can work around that, I’m sure.
I need all of you to please start sending in pictures, videos, and stories of your travels (and of the club, of course). Jim Buelow and Paul Cummings are working on a new 25th Anniversary video for us and they will build off the work done for the 20th Anniversary video in making this new 25th Anniversary video. BTW, if you haven’t seen the 20th Anniversary video, it is on the blogsite – a very, very good portrait of our club. So connect up your phones and download all those pictures you’ve been taking over the past few years, and get them to Dave Meyer by emailing them to FMCADogwood@gmail.com. Add a short description of where the photos were taken, etc. AND, if you have a large number of photos – contact Dave and he will set up a folder for you to upload them directly to our Google location.
That’s it for now; I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at the Natural Bridge Rally in June. Safari Land calls!
Ed Herbert, President
