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Re: GMCMI (International) rallies mapped out [message #313366 is a reply to message #313223]

Fri, 17 February 2017 00:07

Ken Burton

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Here is another factor that you need to consider. When you plan a rally, you need to draw a circle around that site at various distances and guess how many will make the drive to attend. As an example you will get a certain percentage within a 200 mile radius circle, and then a lesser percentage at 500 miles. There will be an even lesser percentage at 1000 or 2000 miles. So when you plan a rally the on one of the borders, east, west, and south, the radius of the circles remain the same, but close 1/2 of area within the circles has no GMC population. This is because a good portion of the area is in an ocean or in Mexico.

So planning rallies farther away from those USA boundaries and more centrally located makes sense. I personally limit my travel to about 800 to 1000 miles for a rally. I'll go farther if there is some draw in the area to make us want to go there. As an example, quite a few years ago GMCMI and Western States planned their rallies back to back in Rapid City and Estes Park. The draw there was two rallies back to back on the same trip in an area that I would like to visit again. Eastern States had one scheduled for the same time in Pennsylvania that was much closer, but the draw for us was Rapid City and Estes Park scheduled back to back.

One other damper on attendance is holding rallies repeatedly at the same sites. As an example the current one is in Oklahoma at the same site that we used a few years back. Laurie and I decided today that we will not be attending because of the same site selection (no draw for us) and the distance. I feel the same about Elkhart this fall but it is so close to us that we will go to it.

Ken Burton - N9KB
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Hebron, Indiana

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