[JONAT] Sector stop suggestions

[Bob]

Great ideas Mark ... keep 'em coming.  I think each SC might want to put
forward two to four "places to visit" in their Sectors.  I'll put them on
the website, and perhaps we can put them on a brochure or advertisement or
some such.

Bob England
'69 E-Type & '72 XJ6
Jaguar Owner's North American Tour (JONAT)
Route Coordinator
http://www.jonat.org



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|From: jonat-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:jonat-admin@autox.team.net]On
|Behalf Of Mark Stephenson
|Sent: August 3, 2003 12:01 PM
|To: jonat@autox.team.net
|Subject: RE: [JONAT] Sector stop suggestions
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|I think this is the last of my communiqués for the moment, unless something
|else tweaks my one-man brainstorming session. (I'm making these
|all separate
|so that each can be discussed individually and easily found in the
|archives.)
|
|As I was writing up my suggestions on "selling" I began considering the
|places I've visited that impressed me and that I would consider
|continentally and internationally famous. One is Gettysburg. As a
|grade-schooler our class visited there on a couple of occasions. Even as
|kids, who are not easily impressed by the vast sweep of history, we were
|awed as our teachers painted a picture of what happened there. The American
|Civil War and, to a certain extent, WWI were the last to employ
|hand-to-hand
|combat as the prime battlefield strategy, in world where long-range
|munitions had become available. The effect was devastating. There were as
|many Americans killed there in three days as there were in the entire
|Vietnam War. One could easily get lost in the magnitude of it and spend
|days, but there is a drive through the park that takes you to all the
|important battle sites. Could you get through in 3-4 hours? I'd have a hard
|time, but I think so.
|
|Another internationally famous spot is Kitty Hawk on the Outer Banks of
|North Carolina. Our route doesn't go near there, but we don't have a SC
|either, so I guess it's open. We drove that a few years ago and it is
|beautiful, sand dunes and sea grass. You enter by bridge on the north end.
|In some places the outer bank is so narrow that you can see ocean on either
|side, there's a short ferry trip between two banks in the middle and a
|longer one, about an hour and a half, IIRC, at the south end.
|There is space
|on the ferry for quite a few cars. It would require some logistical work to
|get the timing right so everyone could make it on one ferry.
|There's about a
|two hour wait between ferries as they have two that crisscross between the
|mainland and the outer banks. But, with as much driving as we're doing, I
|don't think anyone will complain about a little time out of the cars gazing
|out over the Atlantic Ocean toward the mother country (for our cars,
|anyway).
|
|That brings me to Atlanta. While it would be great to stop and see Greg at
|Coventry West (who might make a good SC, and CW, a good sponsor), I wonder
|if that's an exciting place to stop? If Greg was a SC and CW a
|sponsor, then
|definitely, but otherwise, I think running along the coast would be an even
|more pleasant drive. The closer we are to the ocean, the cooler it will be.
|We could run down through Charleston, where they have some beautiful
|antebellum plantations open for tours, and then on to Savannah.
|
|Mark Stephenson, Sector Coordinator - Arizona
|Jaguar Owners North American Tour (www.jonat.org)
|April 15 - July 4, 2004
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