[JONAT] I am Jonat!

[Alan Heartfield]

Publicity or organization wouldn't have helped getting any Regina people to 
join the Winnipeg sector.  Why didn't one of those 30 people take the trip 
east?  Its the weekend.  There is a great event planned.  I realize some of you 
just travelled all the way from Vancouver.  I was expecting at least a couple of 
cars coming to Winnipeg from the west according to the web site attendance 
list.
Your local newspaper mentioned the planning for this trip has been going on 
for 10 months.  Well, I've been working on it for over 15, and I know Bob and 
Jamie and others have been at it longer than that.  Posters, mailings, 
presentations,  interviews with the press - what more can we do?  And you 
can't form a good organization with only two volunteers.
Not pessimistic - realistic.  
And yes, I know.  I could have taken the trip west to join the tour there. In 
hindsight, it would have been a good idea.
Alan


On 2 Jun 2004 at 21:39, Bob wrote:

From:           	"Bob" <engl@accesscomm.ca>
To:             	<jonat@autox.team.net>
Subject:        	RE: [JONAT] I am Jonat!
Send reply to:  	jonat@autox.team.net
Date sent:      	Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:39:36 -0600

> Alan
> 
> You are too pessimistic I think based on the part of the Tour I was involved
> in.  We must have had 10 cars at the start of our Sector at Cypress Hills.
> Last night we had a great turnout at a show and shine at the local IMAX
> theatre.  Must have been 30 cars out and the public was there until dark
> (about 10pm).  Ian and his group had arranged some great publicity on radio
> and two of the TV stations, and another article and photo in the newspaper.
> 
> I have come to the conclusion that the Tour is what you can make of it.
> With organization and publicity, you can get an excellent turnout, even in a
> City of less than 200,000 people!
> 
> Bob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jonat-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:jonat-admin@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf Of Alan Heartfield
> Sent: June 2, 2004 9:19 PM
> To: jonat-chat@autox.team.net; JONAT@autox.team.net
> Subject: [JONAT] I am Jonat!
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Jonat has degenerated into a modern-day version of the pony express.  Ian
> Bailey 
> rushed Jay out to the end of the Regina sector today.  Mike Scales was along
> in 
> his Apollo, but Ian's was the only Jag.  I met him all alone in my XJS, we 
> transferred all the paraphenalia, had an ice cream and a quick chat and each
> re-
> traced our steps home.  All 300 km of them.  So the 'tour' is down to single
> cars 
> now. And it looks like for the rest of the Winnipeg sector at least, Jay
> will not even 
> be travelling in a Jaguar.  I hope he will catch a ride in a Jensen to
> Minnesota, but 
> if not, then it'll be in the  back of a UPS truck.  
> Speaking for myself, but I suspect others also, the Canadian turnout has
> been 
> very disappointing.  And it looks like the rest of the US section is going
> to be a bit 
> thin, also.  What happened to all the tourers?  Doesn't anyone 'truck'
> anymore?  If 
> it wasn't for Regina (of all places) Western Canada would have had almost no
> 
> participants at all.  
> Ian said there is talk of making it mandatory that everyone do the sectors
> before 
> and after their home sector as a minimum.  Good idea, but how many would 
> commit then?  Something has to change.  A tour of one or two cars is no tour
> at 
> all.
> Perhaps a change in route so people could take a mini-tour would work.  In
> other 
> words, make it possible for people to loop around a section of the continent
> and do 
> it in no more than 4 weeks.  Calgary-Denver-SF-Vcvr-Calgary or
> Phoenix-LA-SF-
> Denver-Phoenix for example.  Well, maybe Lethbridge.  Calgary has had its 
> chance :-).
> Tonight Jay is resting at the corner of 50 and 100, almost spack dap on top
> of the 
> Central Meridian.  Lets hope he has as good a trip home as he has had
> getting to 
> the middle of the continent.
> Bob - glad to hear you are online again, but at what cost! Ian says you had
> some 
> 'help' in the disaster.   Remember the 'P' in PC means Personal.  What
> happened 
> - did a PBX destroy your modem?  Surely it can't have been a software
> problem?
> 
> Buffalo Alan 
> Winnipeg Sector Co-ordinator and Express Rider.
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