Since the majority are on board with the idea of a car cruise and dinner at Barona Casino in the Lakeside/East San Diego area, I've decided to make it official. We'll be meeting at Don's shop at 1030 W. Hoover Ave in Orange around 12:30 pm, and leave no later than 1:00 pm. I plan to arrive at Barona no later than 4pm and have dinner around 4:30pm. That will avoid most of the dinner rush and allow most people enough time to make the drive back home before 8pm. There are three different routes I suggest we take. The fastest route according to Yahoo Maps is to take the 5 south to the 805 south to the 52 east. That's about 108 miles and two hours of driving, almost all freeway with no cruising. The next route would be taking the 5 south to the 78 east and coming in from the north on San Pasqual Valley Road. That is about 110 miles and a little more than two hours of driving, with only the last part being a scenic cruise. My preferred route would be to take the 76 east out towards Julian and come back on the 78 west and then south to Barona. That would be 155 miles and take 3 hours, but would include a lot of canyon and scenic driving. Please post if you plan to attend, and vote for the route you want to take.

If we take the longest route and one of us breaks down or there's some other mishap we'll be rushed to get there at the stated time. This is expected to be a large group. If we take option 2 we'll have some padding to make some stops or handle any problems that may come up.

Funny thing though, if we take option 3 (the longest route) via the 15 South (from the 91E) instead of the 5, the ETA is 2.5 hours and 132 miles. This is a good compromise, I think.

Dont forget to allow for all the traffic headed to Mexico on Saturdays.

Good idea, Steve.

So who's in? I see no hands officially in. yet.

theres no mexican traffic really on saturdays. mostly mon - fri and around 430 to 7 going anywhere on the 805 south your ****ed.

kevin she aint gonna be done in time so i cant attend.

I guess I'm in... hopefully I'll remember to drive safer this time.

We didn't run into any traffic the last time we went.
The 12th is a major mexican holiday though.

Sam, you dont have to bring your car. We dont make many trips to San Diego so this is your chance to meet us.

your right and in that case count me in, ill bring the wifey too. i was actually up there friday at don's shop finally got to meet him, real nice guy. and i met another guy, vincent if i recall was his name. cool people so cant wait to meet the rest of the crew.

just wish she was all done i'd go up there just to cruise down with yall, with gas prices the way they are i wouldnt have minded. but next time she will be all ready!

I'm not sure if I'll make it or not. My wife is scheduled to work that day, but if the census at the hospital continues to be as low as it is now, she may get cancelled. I may end up in the Saturn wagon. My T/A needs new "tennis shoes". I'm waiting for a check from my last job for the trucking company in Corona. If the check comes in before the 13th, I'll have new tires and be good to go. They pay on time in 30 days from when I complete a job and send the bill, but the 13th is close to the 30 days, so the check could come in just before or just after! If my wife is working and I don't have the new tires, I'll be in the Dakota. With all of the weight in the Dakota, there is no way I can keep up in the twistys!

Russ you (or anyone else) can always ride with one of us if you cant take your car. I'm not sure if my wife is going or not yet.

Sorry guys, my 16 year old niece is getting her black belt in Tae Quon Do, and I'm responsible to a great degree, so my presence is required. If she doesn't pass the test, I'll kick her bu#.

TA

A quicker route would be 5 South - 78 east - 15 south to Scripps/Poway Parkway - east to Hwy 67 - south on 67 to Wildcat Cyn.

Going 52 and cutting through Santee blows.

I'll be there. My baby got new shoes yesterday. My wife is scheduled to work on the 13th, so she will only be with us if the hospital census is down enough for her to get called off.

Which way do you want to go?

5 south to 78 east?

5 south to 76 east thru Palomar Observatory towards Julian? (My preference but much longer)

91 east to 15 south to 78 east?

I would prefer either of the first 2 routes. If you get into the Santa Ana canyon after 8:00 am getting through is kind of a "crap shoot." If there is an accident in the canyon, there just isn't a way to detour around it.

Ive been EB thru the SA cyn around 9am the last 2 sats and one a month ago and it hasnt been a problem.

We dont have many confirmations here from people who are definitely going.

Sorry to you San Diego guys, but this is why we dont do many San Diego meets.

I'll pick something else for next year's dinner.

I hope more people decide to come this weekend. It's going to be fun.

Do you wanna add a poll to this thread to get an accurate head count? Put me down for one 'couple'.

Its going to rain tonight and tomorrow morning.

Hopefully it stops raining in the afternoon.

See you at Dyno Don's shop around noon!

The weather reports are varying quite abit. Already rained here this morning and we were not supposed to get any rain until possibly tomorrow night. I suspect we will be OK for tomorrow.

Rain or shine, I'm going. See you at Don's shop tomorrow.

The latest I have seen is there will be some showers in the morning then clear up. Sounds good for the trip.

How did it go? I had to work. There was a big shindig this weekend.

We didn't make it to Barona. We got as far as the Santa Ysabel Casino and saw a sign for their prime rib special, so we stopped there instead. Otherwise we had a nice trip with no problems as far as I know.

Russ is right, the rain was fairly mild, just some drizzle and sprinkles but no big rain. It was very cold though.

We had 9 people and 6 cars.

We stopped at Santa Ysabel Casino because last time we came thru there, we missed the prime rib special by a week. And it was another 30 minutes to Barona.

Russ says we'll stop at Santa Ysabel again when we do the Anza Borrego cruise in January. If we keep this up we might be regulars!

I didnt get any pictures because I was driving. Did anyone else?