PRESIDENT S LETTER Rob Sunde

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1 Washington DC Unit Region 2 Unit 170 Vol 19 Issue 10 October 2018 PRESIDENT S LETTER Rob Sunde Hello, again, happy campers of the WDCU. October is upon us now and we are all gearing up for the Installation rally. We are expecting a big turnout for this event for two reasons. One, it is the last official rally of our season and two, it is the time when we install our new officers. Larry and Kim have planned a great weekend for us. One of the highlights will be the field trip to their house to marvel at all of the cool stuff that they have accumulated. There was mention of the possibility of airplane rides nearby, but I haven t heard if this will happen. Looking back on this past year, I am happy to say that we had a very successful camping season. We covered a lot of territory over the summer and had some wonderful times in doing so. We have been to some exciting new campgrounds and we have enjoyed some wonderful experiences at our rallies. Our season started off with our Kick-off rally in College Park, MD. If you remember, the weather leading up to this event was pretty bad, cold and rainy. However, Wally must have been watching over us because we had, for three days, absolutely perfect weather. So perfect that Gayle was able to put the top down on her Falcon for some good cruising. In June we traveled up to Burlington, VT where the Quilt Festival was in full swing. A guided tour of Lake Champlain was also a great experience. July took us into the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, specifically to the Luray (pronounced Looray) area. I must say that tubing on the Shenandoah River was fantastic. And with all of the period correct outfits, it felt like the Summer of Love, circa Lots of fun. August took us back to Bath, NY for a week of merriment. The highlight of the week was the super guided tours of the Curtiss Museum, the Finger Lakes Boating Museum and the Pleasant Valley/Great Western Winery. Many thanks to Jeff Ingersoll and his wife Sandy Parker for arranging this and for their gracious happy hour at their beautiful home. In September there was a joint rally with the New England unit and the Penn-Lehigh unit which toured the Little Switzerland area of PA and then continued as a rolling rally into NY and VT. I believe the Wayne and Linda went on this. Yes folks, this season has gone by in a flash and so has my term as your President. I give many thanks to all of you for your support this year. One person cannot make this club successful, it takes the participation of all its members. In my opinion, the Washington D.C. Unit has got to be the best unit of all the WBCCI clubs. It has been my privilege to serve you this past year and I leave you to the capable hands of Erica Marquette to lead us through another successful year. Respectfully submitted, Rob Sunde Page 1

2 NEWSLETTER CONTENT: Presidents Letter Rob Sunde 1 Contents / Rally Schedule 2 Join Us 3 Renewal Info / Officer List 4 Airsteam Market and Left/Lost and Found 5 One Moore Thing... 6 RALLY Report Rolling Rally 7 RALLY INFO and COUPONS, PICTURES 8-22 WDCU 2018 RALLY SCHEDULE October 18-21, 2018 Installation Rally Hosted by Larry Garland jalopy32@comcast.net. Eastern Museum of Motor Racing, York Springs, PA. Please contact Larry at jalopy32@comcast.net if you want to attend and see more information at the end of the newsletter. If you are a WDCU member in good standing, your rally fee will be covered by the unit. This doesn t include the camping fee. NEW - November 1 4, 2018 Lum s Pond Gathering Bear, DE - Hosts: Rob & Gayle Sunde. Please contact Rob Sunde rsunde@verizon.net for more information to find out what area to book into. We are booked in site 52 and the Sunde s are in 59. You must make your own reservation at the campground. Lum s Pond (302) AND WE HAD A GREAT TIME THE RALLIES LISTED BELOW Thank you to all the hosts. Without you we we would not be having such a great time. If you would like to host a rally in 2019, PLEASE don t be shy and let one of the officers know. As of this newsletter, the only thing on the 2019 docket is International in Doswell, VA, Region 2 in Biglerville, PA (coupon towards the end of this newsletter) and Nic Iverson has started the ball rolling for a rally at Knoebels but I think we need someone to host it as they will not be able to. Please let Erica Marquette or Rob Sunde know if you are interested in hosting this rally. April 12-15, 2018 Capitol Kick Off Rally Hosts Jim & Elaine Clark May 31-June 3, 2018 Rock the Region June 21-24, 2018 Vermont Quilt Festival Rally Linda & Wayne Moore July 12-15, 2018 Summer of Love Rally Hosts Ben and Michelle Ray August 4-11, 2018 Finger Lakes Rally Hosts Rob & Gayle Sunde September Part 1, October 1-4 Part 2, Oct 4-7 Part 3 Rolling Rally Hosts Penn Lehigh Unit, New England Airstream Club & WDCU. Page 2

3 Join Us / Renew 2018 WBCCI Membership Renewal Information It s time to pay your WBCCI and WDCU dues for 2018; $65.00 for WBCCI and $1.00 for WDCU. The best and easiest way to do this is to go to the WBCCI web site and pay with a credit card: renew-your-wbcci-membership. If you prefer, you can pay me directly at a rally; cash or checks are both fine. Or, you can mail me a check for $ Life members of WBCCI and Affiliates of WDCU can send their WDCU dues to me, or give them to me at a rally. If you want to be listed in the 2018 WBCCI Directory, dues need to be paid before November 30, If you have any changes to your Directory information, please note them on your renewal form or notify me. Please note that the WDCU PayPal account we ve used in the past has now been closed. If you have any questions, me at deborah.bede@gmail.com. See you down the road! Deborah Bede 196 Old Warner Road Bradford NH Questions, comments and Suggestions: Contact Deborah Bede Deborah.Bede@gmail.com WDCU Renewal Information How dues are calculated during the year. WBCCI membership runs for the calendar year, January 1 st through December 31 st. Renewals begin in August of the preceding year, and can continue throughout the membership year. If you want to be listed in the Membership Directory, your renewal must be in the WBCCI office by November 30 th of the preceding year. If you renew after January 1 st, at any time during the year, you will pay the full amount of $65.00 plus $1.00 for WDC Unit dues. But if you renew after July 1 st, you will also need to pay in full for the following year. So if you don t renew for 2017 until July 10, for example, you will pay $ instead of $66.00 and your dues will be paid through If you don t renew at all in 2017 you can reinstate your membership if you renew in the first half of It is easiest for everyone if you renew through the WBCCI office, whether by mail or online. If you are an Affiliate member of the WDCU or a Life member of WBCCI, you can pay your Unit dues of $1.00 per year for more than one year at a time if you pay it to the WDCU Membership person, me. So, you can give me $5.00 and it will be good for five years. Regular members of the unit can only pay one year at a time; again, it is easiest if you do this directly to WBCCI when you renew your WBCCI dues. New members dues are prorated if they join later in the year. There is a schedule on the WBCCI web site; after July 1 st new members pay the prorated amount for that year plus the full amount for the following year. Page 3

4 Deborah Bede Unit Officers President - Rob Sunde # rsunde@verizon.net First Vice President - Erica Marquette #13270 ericamarq15@gmail.com Second Vice President - Jerry McConnell #6249 Jerryjmcconnell@gmail.com Third Vice President Gail Buck #1267 VintageTrailerGypsy@gmail.com Past President - Mary-Lou Gatward # dmlgatward@yahoo.ca Trustee 1 - Kim Alaniz # daneekim@yahoo.com Trustee 2 - Nancy McDowell # giommi1@gmail.com Trustee 3 Diane Sheridan #3802 dianesheridan78@gmail.com Trustee 4 Joy Spahr #8791 spahr5@att.net Treasurer & Membership Deborah Bede #4980 Deborah.Bede@gmail.com Recording Secretary Becky Weimer #15767 becky@penn.com Newsletter - Linda Moore #15116 lindamoorenh@comcast.net Webmaster RJ Marquette #13270 rjm1@yahoo.com Page 4

5 AIRSTREAM MARKET WDCU tee shirts now available! Beautiful Airstream Royal Blue with red silver grey capitol dome and red WASHINGTON DC UNIT and WBCCI. Men s style is crew neck and women s style is a more attractive V neck. Sizes to choose from for both men s and woman s L, XL, 2XL. $10 plus $4 shipping. See photo below with our models wearing the WDCU tee shirts. Collared shirts also available for $16 plus $4 shipping. Please contact me lindamoorenh@comcast.net for more information and we will figure out how for you to get them. I love this picture! Do you have an Airstream or Airstream related item to sell? Send an to lindamoorenh@comcast.net. I will put it in the next newsletter or send out to the membership. LEFT/LOST AND FOUND Jim and Elaine Clarke lost a Washington, DC; Cherry Blossom Festival Coffee Mug. Last seen at Luray Outlanders Rally - If it turns up just hang on to it until we meet down the road again. Page 5

6 One Moore Thing Hello All, Only a few chances left to camp with the WDCU. Our last two rallies are coming up. Oct Larry & Kim Garland are hosting in York Springs, PA. See more information for this rally at the end of the newsletter. If you want to go, you need to hurry and contact Larry. The last rally was a quick add happening Nov 1-4 at Lums Pond SP in Bear, DE. Contact Rob Sunde if interested. rsunde@verizon.net. We had the pleasure to have dinner this week with some WDCU members Danielle and Lucious Herrmann. They are from the south and were touring New England. We had a great catching up. Can t wait to see you guys again in York, PA at the rally this week. This is also the end of Rob Sunde s presidency. Please send him an and tell him what a great job he did. Got a good tip? Have you run a rally and ended up with some orphan stuff? This is called Left and Found. Send me an lindamoorenh@comcast.net and I will publish in future newsletter. Please submit any newsletter articles for the next newsletter by the end of Nov 6. The file you send must be a Word doc. Send to lindamoorenh@comcast.net. Just campin, Linda Page 6

7 RALLY REPORT Rolling Rally Sept 27-Oct 4 This was a joint effort between the Penn Lehigh Unit, the New England Airstream Club and the Washington DC Unit. Wayne and I were the contacts from WDCU. The rally started in Palmerton, PA at the Little Switzerland Rally hosted by the Penn Lehigh unit rolling through NY with some New England Unit members and ending up at Barre, VT at the Digging the Dead Rally hosted by the New England Unit. WAM and I had a great time. We had some challenges for the beginning of this thing but did make it there on Friday. The PA portion of the rally was hosted by Jim Ridolfi and Marguerite Glaser who planned a wonderful time for us. We had a train ride on the Lehigh Valley Scenic Railroad and a tour at the Yuengling Brewery. We had plenty of time to tour on our own and went to The #9 Mine (my favorite of the weekend) and the Asa Packer Museum andwe did a lot of hiking in the woods with our friends and did some geo caching off the trails.. The area was abundant with fall farm stops for buying apples and pumpkins as well as gorging on warm sugary apple cider donuts. The rally had a Swiss theme and the meals went along with the theme. We had hot dogs and Swiss beans, cheese and chocolate fondue. We were there until Tuesday so potlucks rounding out the meals. The #9 Mine was fabulous! What a great look into a miners life. I didn t have high expectations when we drove into the parking area. It looked like a rundown dusty museum. When our tour was called we gathered at the back of the museum and were led outside by a very handsome tall young man with a miner s cap on and some coal dust on him. Not sure if it was from previous tours or part of the uniform. When we walked out of the museum we could see we were going to ride on a funky looking transporter to go into the mine. It was a bumpy ride into the mine but very cool. The transporter was actually going up and not down into the mine. This was because when it was built, it was lighter for the horses to bring the empty wagons up and then they could bring the full wagons down out of the mine. It was an hour tour in the mine. We walked into different areas and were told what the equipment was used for. Although the equipment was old, rusted and twisted and not used for many years, it was very interesting. This is one job I would never want to have! On Tuesday we traveled from Palmerton, PA to Gansevoort, NY (Saratoga area). The weather wasn t great but we found a lot to do. We went to the Saratoga National Historic Park which was also fabulous. I did not know there was a major revolutionary war battle there which Benedict Arnold was a major contributor. Unfortunately, by the time the memorials had been built, he had turned to the other side. There is a monument there for him but it does not say his name. It is low key! The rangers there were great for information about the park and the battle. Our little rolling travel group left Gansevoort, NY but we had to split from them to continue on to host some family at out Colebrook, NH cabin. The rest of them continued on to the New England Unit rally, Digging the Dead. From the pictures I saw, we missed out on other fun things they did. They toured a granite quarries, the artistry of gravestone and headstone design and carvings and dutch oven cooking. That is ok, we can always do it next time. Page 7

8 WDCU 2018 Installation Rally - Oct.18-21, 2018 Hosts: Larry & Kim Garland The Eastern Museum of Motor Racing, 315 Latimore Valley Rd, York Springs PA. On the infield of the historic racetrack at the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing Rest rooms/no showers. 10 amp electric. Well water available on grounds. No dump station. Pets must be leashed. Large pavilion on site. Indoor meeting area if weather is bad. $30 per camper + $10 per person (12 and under $5 each). Name: Street: City: State: Zip: WBCCI # Total Amount Due: Please send by Aug.31st so we can settle with catering. Check or money order to: Larry Garland, 9 Maple St, Seven Valleys, PA PayPal (friends & family please) to: jalopy32larry@gmail.com Places to visit in the area: Gettysburg, Appalachian Brewing Company, Antiques in Carlisle & New Oxford, Altland House Brewing & Restaurant Abbottstown, Sprint car racing Lincoln Speedway, Williams Grove Speedway, Hershey, 2018 WDCU Installation Rally Schedule Thursday Oct. 18th: Arrive, set up, Happy Hour, Dinner on your own o Friday Oct. 19th: 8:00 Continental Breakfast 10:00 Museum Tour 1:00 Leave to tour our warehouse/home (about 50 min.ride to Seven Valleys) if there is interest. 2:30 Four Seasons Winery tour directly behind our place 4:00 Happy Hour 5:30 Pot Luck Dinner o Saturday Oct 20th: 8:00 Continental Breakfast Day on your own. We are working on a limited number biplane and other plane rides 15 minutes from therally. More to follow. 4:00 Happy Hour 5:30 Catered Dinner, Salad, Lasagna/vegetable Lasagna, Dessert Bring your own plates, silverware, and drinks Installation Meeting! o Sunday Oct. 21th: 8:00 Continental Breakfast clean up/out! Breakdown and leave at your leisure See everyone down the road! Page 8

9 RED WHITE and BLUE WBCCI REGION 2 RALLY June 6 th - 9 th, 2019 South Mountain Fairgrounds 615 Narrows Rd., Biglerville, PA South Mt. Fairgrounds is in Adams County, PA., home of the historic Civil War Battlefield of Gettysburg, the South Mountain Fruit Belt, covered bridges and portions of the Appalachian Trail and the Underground Railroad. The Rally promises you two breakfasts, a catered dinner, two nights of entertainment and nightly ice cream socials. Morning activities will include a golf outing, seminars, and the Region 2 Business Meeting. Afternoons are free to explore the area...bicycling, hiking, kayaking and fishing are as close as the nearby Caledonia State Park. Take a tour of Gettysburg or one of several local wineries! Mark your calendars now! Name(s) Address Phone WBCCI# Unit# Handicap Parking? (yes) Golf? (yes) Volunteer? (yes!) Rally Fee includes two breakfasts, catered dinner, 2 nights entertainment, ice cream socials. Sites include W/E (guaranteed 110V) with dump station available Rally Fee (Ages 13 and up) $65 x = $ Rally Fee (Children 3-12) $30 x = $ Camping per night (W/E and dump) $20 x = $ (May arrive on Wed. June 5 th and must depart Mon. June 10 th. Max 5 nights) Total Enclosed $ RSVP by May 01, Make check (USD) payable to: Region 2 WBCCI Mail to: Will Kushto, Tres. 114 Flagstaff Rd., Phila., PA Children and pets welcome! Contact: Rune Moeller (443) gpickr@icloud.com CMU #166/WBCCI Page 9

10 Pictures from WAM and I rollin along on the Rolling Rally Page 10

11 Yuengling beer started out as Eagle Brewery. You can just see the shadow of the name on the side of the building. Page 11

12 The funky mine transporter we rode into #9 Mine. Page 12

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14 Our rally mates. An Airstream siting! Page 14

15 See out loot! Geo Caching with Susan. Page 15

16 A clever cache container. It gave me the creeps! We spotted the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile! Page 16

17 Our 3 rd flag. It was the result of cutting off the English Union Jack. The memorial for the instrumental major general that nobody wants to mention. Page 17

18 Queechee Gorge, VT. And a shopping op! Page 18

19 On our way to Colebrook. Color popping everywhere! Page 19

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21 The Grange chicken pie supper. You can t get any more small town than this! All you can eat of homemade food by the Grange ladies for $12. Page 21

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