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Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? [message #327722 is a reply to message #327718]

Wed, 03 January 2018 18:59

Emery Stora

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Karen
Having managed the GMCM conventions for several years I can tell you that starting on Thursday was NOT an effort to get younger people to come to the conventions.

Starting on a Thursday usually makes it possible to even reserve a site. That leaves a Fri, Sat and Sunday at the end of our stay available for the campground to rent it out to another group
that wants to have a weekend rally usually starting on a Friday.

Retired people don’t normally care when it starts.
I agree that the travel time is not good for a working person.
That is why I didn’t start going to rallies until I was retired (however it helped that I retired at age 55).

There are other clubs that like to run from Friday to some time after the weekend.
If we had a rally Monday through Friday or Saturday that would take up two long weekends for the campground and many campground owners would not book us because they would loose the income from another
group. However if you can find a campground that would do those dates for us and that would have the other things we need for our convention such as full hookups, perhaps 200 spaces and buildings for our meals and seminars I am sure that Kim Weeks would be glad to work with you to change dates to accommodate you but it is not an easy task to find campgrounds that will meet our needs and which will be that flexible on dates.

Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Frederick, CO

> On Jan 3, 2018, at 5:14 PM, KB wrote:
>
> I've heard that various clubs start their ~5 day rallies on a Thursday or Friday in the hopes of getting younger folks (ie, working stiffs) to come to
> the rally.
> Ironically, this makes it much more difficult to get there if you have to plan around limited time off and some distance.
>
> For example, we're about 870 miles away from Tuscon. If we drove 435 miles a day, we'd have to leave Thursday April 5th at the latest, and wouldn't
> return until late on Friday the 13th at the earliest in order to attend the whole rally.
> Not exactly a leisurely pace, and it will use up 7 vacation days.
>
> If the rally ran Monday through Friday or Saturday, we'd have a weekend on either side for actually getting there and back, and
> would end up only needing 5 vacation days.
>
> So, what do other folks think? Would having future rallies Monday through Friday be better for working folks?
>
> Karen
> 1975 26'
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		Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Wed, 03 January 2018 18:14
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Burt and Faye curtis on Wed, 03 January 2018 18:52
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Carl S. on Wed, 03 January 2018 19:23
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Emery Stora on Wed, 03 January 2018 19:47
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Wed, 03 January 2018 21:40
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Carl S. on Wed, 03 January 2018 21:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: jimk on Wed, 03 January 2018 22:42
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: USAussie on Thu, 04 January 2018 05:35
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Thu, 04 January 2018 11:14
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Jim Galbavy on Thu, 04 January 2018 14:59
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Thu, 04 January 2018 16:36
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Jim Galbavy on Thu, 04 January 2018 17:25
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Thu, 04 January 2018 19:28
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Fri, 05 January 2018 12:03
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: k2gkk on Fri, 05 January 2018 12:10
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: emerystora on Fri, 05 January 2018 12:50
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: James Hupy on Fri, 05 January 2018 13:08
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Fri, 05 January 2018 14:04
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Sandra Price on Thu, 04 January 2018 18:09
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Thu, 04 January 2018 19:31
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: James Hupy on Thu, 04 January 2018 19:42
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Sandra Price on Thu, 04 January 2018 20:18
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Jim Galbavy on Thu, 04 January 2018 07:28
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Emery Stora on Thu, 04 January 2018 16:50
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Thu, 04 January 2018 17:14
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: jimk on Thu, 04 January 2018 18:09
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: James Hupy on Tue, 09 January 2018 12:00
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Jim Galbavy on Tue, 09 January 2018 13:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: USAussie on Tue, 09 January 2018 13:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Richard Denney on Tue, 09 January 2018 22:12
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: BobDunahugh on Thu, 11 January 2018 00:18
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Emery Stora on Wed, 03 January 2018 18:59
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Matt Colie on Thu, 04 January 2018 09:48
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Jeanette on Thu, 04 January 2018 10:37
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Mike Kelley on Thu, 04 January 2018 11:11
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Matt Colie on Fri, 05 January 2018 09:55
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Scott Nutter on Thu, 04 January 2018 11:08
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Thu, 04 January 2018 11:19
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: jhbridges on Thu, 04 January 2018 15:06
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: jhbridges on Sat, 06 January 2018 08:13
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Scott Nutter on Sat, 06 January 2018 20:46
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: KB on Mon, 08 January 2018 13:31
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Matt Colie on Mon, 08 January 2018 14:13
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: jhbridges on Sun, 07 January 2018 08:34
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Scott Nutter on Mon, 08 January 2018 16:00
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: pzerkel on Mon, 08 January 2018 16:52
		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Carl S. on Tue, 09 January 2018 11:31
		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Mike Kelley on Wed, 10 January 2018 08:48
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		Re: [GMCnet] Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: James Hupy on Wed, 10 January 2018 17:42
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		Re: Rallies: what days of the week are best for people with J.O.B.s? By: Matt Colie on Thu, 11 January 2018 08:07
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