As many of you know, IA '10 will take place on July 17th and 18th. As is usual practice, most of us will be taking off the Friday before, July 16th. As we arrive in Nashville/Lebanon we'll part ways to our respective hotels/meeting points, so make sure you plan ahead of time for the arrival into Nashville.

Now, as before, below is the layout for the journey. If you would like to participate/join in, please let me know by posting here. I'll keep a tab of how many people are showing at each checkpoint, so as not to lose anyone.


Import Alliance '10 (Main thread)
Import Alliance '10 (Website)


Entire Journey: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...79&ie=UTF8&z=8

Checkpoint #1: Northwoods Mall (Charleston, SC)
- Departure Time: 07:00 AM (EST) Friday, July 16th

Exit 209A off of I-26. Meeting in Belk's parking lot.


Map of area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...=UTF8&t=h&z=16


Checkpoint #2: Harbison Rd (Columbia, SC)
- Arrival Time: 8:45 AM (EST)
- Departure Time: 9:15AM (EST)

Exit 103 off of I-26. Meeting in Sears' parking lot.

Map of area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...03298&t=h&z=16



Checkpoint #3: West Gate Mall (Spartanburg, SC)
- Arrival Time: 10:30 AM (EST)
- Departure Time: 11:00 AM (EST)

Exit 21B. Looking for suggestions for an exact location to meet.


Map of area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...03298&t=h&z=16


Checkpoint #4: Cracker Barrel Restaurant (Asheville, NC)
- Arrival Time: 12:15 PM (EST)
- Departure Time: 1:15 PM (EST)

Exit 44 off of I-40.

Map of area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...08256&t=h&z=18


Checkpoint #5: West Town Mall (Knoxville, TN)
- Arrival Time: 3:15 PM (EST)
- Departure Time: 3:45 PM (EST)


Exit 380 off of I-40. There looks to be plenty of parking, gas stations, and food businesses available here.

Map of area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&sour...01649&t=h&z=17




Final Arrive Time at Lebanon: 6:00 PM (EST) 5:00 PM (CST)




PLEASE NOTE: I know that not everyone will be able to pit stop at the same mileage, so feel free to drop off when necessary. The extra checkpoints are there for a reason. It gives a chance for those with more thirsty engines, a chance to catch breath and keep up. Feel free to throw in ideas that are worth noting, at me. I'm up for suggestion.

//////: MECHANICAL NOTE ://////
MAKE SURE TO PERFORM ROUTINE MAINTENANCE TO YOUR VEHICLE BEFORE SETTING OFF ON THIS JOURNEY!
Accidents can happen, and being many miles from home can make things quite tricky. So best bet is to prepare for the journey as best as possible.

MATURITY NOTE: I know that this can be a long journey, but please try and maintain a more mature driving habit. Wreckless driving is illegal and can ruin the trip for everyone. "Driving it like you stole it" is not a mentality to have on a trip like this. There's plenty of people here who spent intense amounts of time and money on their vehicles to have them ruined by someone trying to gain attention by showing off. Know the difference between "playful" and "idiotic".


Roster:
Checkpoint #1:
1. The Prophet.
2. Hoon Moto
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.


Checkpoint #2:
1. AFAccord
2. I Kick Squirrels + 10
3. ^1
4. ^2
5. ^3
6. ^4
7. ^5
8. ^6
9. ^7
10. ^8
11. ^9
12. ^10
13.
14.
15.


Checkpoint #3:
1. RNPoo7
2. B16CRXT
3. prjct92eh2
4. aoys0000
5. AltimaXX +3
6. ^1
7. ^2
8. ^3
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.

Checkpoint #4:
1. white92lude
2. ^1
3. ^2
4. ^3
5. ^4
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.


Total Head Count: 27



Notes: The text and format of this page was borrowed from toyomatt84 from the Midwest Caravan page. I copied parts of it to keep this simple yet thorough.

 

Checkpoint three please Jason!

 

ditto!

 

checkpoint three

 

Updated!

 

 

I like this itinerary. you were asking for a suggestion for an exact location to meet at northwoods mall, i'll suggest the Belk parking lot. It is literally a straight shot from that parking lot, to I-26 west. In columbia, the sears parking lot at Columbiana Centre Mall on Harbison Blvd. is fairly easy to get to from I-26. At both of these malls, in charleston and columbia, obviously theres a lot of food places and gas stations around for whatever people need.

The one thing i'll warn anybody joining this caravan about are the road conditions in both charleston and columbia. I just moved back here to charleston from columbia, and both places have real crappy roads. definitely not slammed car friendly, but then again, what city is? hahaha

Op, any ideas on hotels nearby? Are there any hotels in specific where a lot of IA people are residing at?

 

Checkpoint 3 Jason, and add +3 cars with me, unless they flake.

 

yeah what hotel is going to be the best?

 

closest is going to be Lebanon

 

posted this on Carolina Hondas, Jason
http://www.carolinahondas.com/events...#post775975066

 

Thanks Jimmy. I forgot to do that.

 

Most people stay either in Lebanon (closest town to the Speedway, as Jimmy said), or downtown Nashville. Nashville is fun and has plenty of things to entertain, but hotels are more expensive, and the drive is a little longer. MOST people stay in Lebanon. The 'strip' there is 10/231 where it intersects I-40. This is where most of the guys/gals hang out in the evenings.

Most of the hotels were booked or close to it the last time I looked, so the sooner you book, the better.

 

Hoon Moto and I can start the charleston checkpoint, we all live here. Theres six of us rolling in two cars. So definitely put me down. I told the drivers that we need to follow this itinerary if we're participating, and they all agreed.

Does anybody want HDR shots of their car? If so, let me know. I can do maybe one car per checkpoint, and i'm down to do them at IA. I'm doing them free for a short time only... lol.

 

there will be a ton of us at check point 2 in harbison.

 

really? thats awesome.. i'm hoping this caravan wont stay small, and i hope nobody backs out.

i kick squirrels, you live in cola? i remember seeing your dc2 at import alliance atlanta in 09, and i nearly nutted. car's ridiculous in person.. you still drivin it?

 

yeah I live in columbia. I actually parted the blue integra out the day I got home from nashville. I currently have a 99 CTR so i will be bringing that to nashville this year but I should have 5-10-15 maybe meet up at harbison that morning.

 

I40 is back open where the rock slide was so you may want to update you route(it should knock some time off your trip). For anyone in NC that is interested I have put together a caravan to IA as well. We will be passing through the Asheville area about an hour before this caravan gets there tho.

http://www.wrongfitmentcrew.com/foru...Nashville-2010

 

maybe you can leave an hour later so the two caravans can combine?

 

^The goal of our caravan was to make it to our hotel in Murfreesboro, TN(30 mins past Lebanon) by 5:00. Our hotel has a free drink happy hour from 5:00-7:30 that many of my caravan people want to take advanage of(it does not matter to me since I don't drink). I do like our current time line because we will be avoiding most of the friday afternoon traffic by travling through Knoxville before 3pm.

 

hmm... does anybody else wanna try and merge caravans? it might be hard for some of us to change it up, even for just an hour, but if everybody's down, me and my boys are down.

 

Parted it out?!?! That car was sooo clean, even sitting on the side of I-40 with fluids leaking out! haha Jared, I'll put you down for 10. Does the Sears parking lot work for you guys?

Good call! Edited map and times to reflect the route change.

What time do you guys plan on being in Asheville? I shortened the times on the breaks a bit for our itinerary (anyone joining us at the check points should be there early anyway), and that puts us in Asheville at 12:45 EST. That's keeping the Asheville stop only 30 min long, places us through Knoxville around 3:30pm, and passes Lebanon at 5pm CST.

If it's cool with these HT guys, we can bump the trip 30 min earlier so the Chas guys leave at 7 which would give us an hour break in Asheville. I'll go ahead and adjust the times again to reflect that. If anyone has a problem meeting those times, let me know.

Take a look over the new times and see if that works for you guys.

 

works for all of us at charleston, that'd be awesome if we can merge with more people. as long as everybody else is cool with the time change too.

btw for you cola guys... i wont be driving my car, but i moved up there from charleston for a little less than a year. i just recently moved back to charleston. while there, i was rolling around in a white dc2 gsr, black racing pro n1's (in black), black hood, had a red bucket with a sparco harness, and a sticker on the windshield that says 'Fuc*ing Classy.' but the sticker wasnt censored.. haha. so if you've seen that car, thats me!

i also wanted to ask... are any of you guys going to any of the local car meets or know anything about those meets? i'd like to take FULL advantage of nashville and the surrounding area while we're there.

once again for those who would like them, i'm willing to do hdr shots of anybody's cars for free for a short time. i can do them at import alliance after i've covered all the cars i need to. if interested, let me know ahead of time so that we can trade numbers or something so we can meet at the meet... lol.

 

If you're staying in one of the hotels on the 'strip' in Lebanon, you're bound to find 'block party' style gatherings with the other hundreds of people staying there during the meet. Then again, there are always a ton of car groups meeting in DT Nashville in the parks down by the river if you care to drive out that direction.


If I finish my wheels before the meet then you can shoot my car. I'll let you know.

 

I wanna say I have seen your car around the harbison area before...maybe even at tsunami?



but for meeting up at sears will be pretty much perfect as long as it ok with the mall security..they are usually a little strict to be honest.