Final packing in progress. Heading down I-95 around 9:30 AM hoping to miss the Washington beltway bash & Richmond ramble. Wishing everyone a safe and enjoyable trip.

Same to you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

Ken, hope you make it in time for the reception. I am coming from Ohio and it takes me about 6 1/2 hours.

David Dosser
Coshocton, OH

Thanks Ken, see you there!!

all
safe trip everyone... leaving 5:00 am ..from NY looking forward to great show ..to learn much.. fellowship with like minded people ...
ken cant wait to sit on some great seminars

I'm sitting here trying to tell my wife how great it is and she is acting like she cares.

David Dosser
Coshocton, OH

KEn, I'm heading down with 2 other NERbs at 1:30AM. At 3AM 3 othe rNERBs will be leaving from NJ, and at 5AM 10 more are coming down in 5 different cars. Everyone have a safe trip, looking forward to settingup, some Lex BBQ, a Rodmaker reception, and a lobby takeover NERBs-style

Drive safely. If you see me I'll be in a Subaru Forester with 2 eight foot long pvc pipes on the luggage rack.

David Dosser
Coshocton, OH

Got the Bar packed for the lobby HaHa . Will be cruising into HP around 1 pm in Paul Rimbeck wife`s mini van. We will be the ones beating the women back!! Cant wait to see the crew. The NERBS are with a heavy heart this show. We have to remember those we lost recently. They will be there in spirit!!

Freddwhy (Rapt-Ryte)

I'm coming for my first Rod Expo. Tried to get my wife to come, stay in a nice inn and see HP and she says "What am I going to do? Like you'd really come if I was going to, say, a quilting expo".

Jeff

Columbia, SC

Left at 4:30 and sitting in Scranton. Leaving early in the morning for the rest of the trip.

Chris Richer
Iroquois ON

A couple of us leaving California at 7:00AM and planning on making the reception, thankfully we gain 3hours traveling East!

Ken, hope to catch up with you, owe you a beer from last year!

I'm curious. Where is the biggest volume of the [east coast] rod building business located? Where is the biggest money [profit] located? Posts referencing driving "up" or "down" I-95 got me to wondering.

Jeff Gross, your wife sounds exactly like mine! Thats OK, I will have a better expo with her at home where she can't be constantly bugging me about spending too much of MY money. I'll be passing on the reception and driving up on Saturday morning, its only about a two hour drive. See you folks Sat AM. Everybody try to be safe, we have some spring like weather in the Carolinas which means thunder storms, heavy rain showers and possible "twisters".

Ken & Lana
I just arrived at the Best Western Hotel about 3:30 p.m. . Our room view overlooks the front of the Conference center front door, cool. I can "spy" on my old friend going into the building.
Good to be back in High Point

Good Wrappin !
David A. Fuller,
Great Basin Fishing Rods
Full-Time RV'r Traveling- n- Fishing
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