2017 Midwest Meet & Greet

[JohnB]

The Mid-West Meet and Greet is now in sign-up. This year's event has been moved from June to September. JohnB (John) your event organizer and Vanhakke (Denny) our camp consultant welcome you to come join us.

When: Arrive Friday, September 22nd – Departing Sunday, September 24th, 2017 (2 nights)

Where:
RIVER TRAIL CAMPGROUND
7712 DEEP CUT ROAD
MENDON, OH 45862

WEBSITE: River Trail Campground Google Maps Image of camp: http://goo.gl/maps/xYT28

Phone: 419-795-1400 Ask for Carol

Reservations Process: (Now Ongoing)
· Sunline Club Members are to call Carol above to reserve your site.
· Tell them you are with Sunline Club, your dates for camping, request your site number and give your contact phone number.

Members are welcome to come earlier or stay later. The official M & G will be Friday night, Saturday night and leaving Sunday.
· All campsites have water, sewer and 30 amp electric. 50 amp available if needed. (site specific)
· Please make your reservation before August 15th if possible as we need to release unused campsites back to the camp. You can still reserve after August 15th however you may not get a site next to the group.

· Please post a reply here if you make your reservation with your dates, camper year/model, first names of those attending so we can update the attendee list.

Cost: $33/night (Back in site) - $35/night (Pull through site) - See CG map below for sites.
Camp Check In: Since we are in a group, we can check in early, must be past 9:30am Friday if your site is open from the night before. Check out: Sunday at 1:00pm

Campground only accepts checks or cash. Campground requires 1 night pre-paid mailed in advance to hold reservation. Make checks payable to River Trail Campground. Mail to Campground address above.

Sunline Club Campsites
We have selected overnight camping area A and have sites A11 to A21 being held by the campground for our group. Overflow if we fill this section will be sites 22 to 30 or if members have special needs. Members JohnB in site A11, group campsite A12 and vanhakke in site A13 have been reserved.

Notes: The campground has requested for back in sites to only back in on the pad. They want to avoid lawn damage from pulling in the opposite direction off the pad etc. Pull through sites can come in the opposite direction, just hookups are on the opposite side of your camper.

River Trail Campground over view map (Map is corrected for North direction vrs CG website)


Aerial image - Sunline Club Area A Sites 11 to 21 - Reserved sites are in Green


Confirmed Reservation List:

Site: A11 JohnB/CindyB (2- John & Cindy) - 2004 T-310SR (TFSS)
Site: A12 Group Meeting Site
Site: A13 vanhakke (2 –Dennis & Marie) - 2007 T-286SR (TFSS)
Site: A14
Site: A15
Site: A16
Site: A17 J&A Lima Oh (2 - Jack & Angela) -2007 T2499) (TFS)
Site: A18 Jim44646 (2 - Jim & Darlene) - 2001 T-2553 (TFS)
Site: A19 A14 Tweety (2- Pam & Steve) - 2017 Lance 1475 (SS)
Site: A20
Site: A21 BenB (2 - Ben & Sarah) - 2006 T264SR (FS)

Schedule of Activates:
Friday Evening Dinner: Friday evening dinner is not a planned event at this time due to incoming arrivals. If members arrive early and would like to dine together, we can help arrange. Reply to this thread when you know and we can see if we can schedule.

All activities are at the group site A12. See reply no. 2 below for more details.

Friday Night Cracker-barrel: 8:00pm, Bring a share finger type eating food
Saturday Breakfast: start cooking at 9:30am, Eat at 10:00am - Baggie Omelets
Saturday Potluck Dinner: 5:30pm, See 2 reply for more info.
Saturday Campfire: 8:30pm, Bring any leftover finger type eating food you want to share

Camping Gear Needed:
· Canopies for over picnic tables: Ben B (large white canopy), Jim44646, 2 awnings
· Lantern for picnic tables, Friday night Cracker-barrel, LP or liquid fuel: JohnB (1), Jim44646
· Local source for firewood: J & A Lima OH and Jim44646
. Gas burners, pots and LP gas for egg boil: JohnB
. Snow shovel: Jim44646 (ask Jim, he just told me he was bring it...)
· Picnic tables: We will need to borrow some of our sites picnic tables for the group area. How many are TBD.


Any questions, PM your camp hosts, JohnB (John) or Vanhakke (Denny) or post a reply.

Updated attendee list 9-28-17

[JohnB]

Friday Night Cracker-barrel and Saturday Night Pot Luck sign up list:

Friday Night Cracker-barrel 8:00pm at Group site 12 picnic tables. A Friday night get together to meet your Sunline friends. If you can, bring a share finger food snack, please post a reply and we will add it to the list.

JohnB/CindyB: Cheese & Crackers, pepperoni
Vanhakke: Texas Caviar, a gourmet salsa with chips.
J&A Lima Oh:
Jim44646: Cheese, crackers and grapes.
BenB: White chocolate-cranberry cookies

Saturday Breakfast: Start cooking at 9:30am, Eat at 10:00am. We will be doing baggie omelets at the Group site picnic tables. Come for 9:30am to start making your omelet. For those who have never done this before, we make omelets in a bag and boil them. Your omelet bag is made by you at the group site from ingredients brought by members. The head boiler cooks the entire groups omelets all at once! 15 to 20 minutes later the entire group sits down to dine.

We ask the members from each camper to bring your own 2 eggs per/person attending and your own eating utensils and breakfast beverages. We are also asking you to bring a group share, omelet ingredient and a breakfast share food. Post a reply of what you are bringing and we will add it to the list. All cooking bags will be provided by the camp host. If eggs are not your thing, please still come and share our other breakfast foods with us. Please post a reply and we will add it to the list.

Breakfast Sign up List: (Bring enough for the members in your camper plus 2 to 5 others. Items can be repeated within reason.)

JohnB/CindyB: Muffins, bacon crumbles, onions.
Vanhakke: Diced ham. Shredded cheddar cheese.
J&A Lima Oh:
Jim44646: Maple sausage links, baking pit pieces, shredded mild cheese.
BenB: Peppers for omelets and zucchini bread

Saturday Dinner Potluck: Dining to start at 5:30pm at the Group site picnic tables. Bring a share dish or desert enough for the members in your camper plus 2 to 5 others. Bring your own beverages and eating utensils. Please post a reply and we will add it to the list.

Potluck Sign up List:

JohnB/CindyB: Balsamic chicken with zucchini
Vanhakke: Sloppy Joes and buns, Marie's special cake (Pineapple/Orange/Peach)
J&A Lima Oh:
Jim44646: Chicken with potatoes and green bean casserole
BenB: One-pot Pasta
Tweety: green salad

Saturday Night Campfire: Starting at 8:30pm at Group site A12. Bring your own chair and gather around for a good camper folks yak session! If you have left over cracker-barrel goodies and you want to get rid of them, this is the place! Bring them.

We will update this events post as new topics or items are known.

Are we there yet!!! Camping fever is setting in….

[JohnB]

2017 Midwest Meet & Greet - Additional Info – Pics from Camp

Campsites


A view from our camp site area towards the pond beach.


A view from the pond/beach area back towards our camp site area.


A view from site 18 towards the pond.

[J&A Lima Oh]

Jack & Angela will be on A-17, Just talked to Carol and sent her a check.
See You all There.
Jack

[jim44646]

Jim & Darlene will be on site A-18. Talked to carol sending check today.

[J&A Lima Oh]

Jim, I Thought I had reserved A-18 with Carol when I talked to her, But I put down A-16 when I posted, It will all work out when we get there, you can have 18, we will take whatever is available close to the group. f I remember correct We discussed last year moving the group site to A-21 and we would move to A-12. When we get there we will see what Carol has reserved. We will then go from there.
Have a happy spring and summer camping, we may see some of you at Woffywoods.

[JohnB]

I called Carol and have updated the signup list with the latest on site moves. Is it spring yet!! The wet yuk weather is getting old quick...

[BenB]

Were are reserved for A-21, see everyone again in the fall.

[JohnB]

Hi Everyone,

We are now in count down mode. 23 days and counting!

Any one else want to join us? There is still room to join.

And to those already signed up, do you have to menu items figured out for the Friday night cracker barrel, the Saturday breakfast and the Saturday night pot luck? Let me know and I will update the list. BenB I updated your items you sent me. Thanks.

We need a local source for firewood, anyone have some to bring?

The 24th will be here before you know it. Yeh!!!

Thanks

John

[vanhakke]

Hi, Everybody,

We're posting our food items for the Mendon M & G:

Friday night cracker barrel:
Texas Caviar, a gourmet salsa with chips.

Saturday Breakfast:
Diced ham. Shredded cheddar cheese.

Saturday Night Potluck:
Sloppy Joes and buns, Marie's special cake (Pineapple/Orange/Peach)

JohnB says: "Are we there yet ?"

We say: "We hungry yet ?"

See you all soon.

Denny & Marie

[JohnB]

Thanks Denny,

Jim and Ben sent me their food items. Jack sent a note on him bringing some fire wood.

I have updated the first 2 posts to reflect all the changes to date.

Time is coming up quick! Can't wait to get out in the campground again and seeing all of you

Thanks

John

[Tweety]

This is a little last minute but we found ourselves on the way
home from our western trip and needing someplace in Ohio for
the weekend when I stumbled on John B's meet & greet.
We'll be on site 14 Saturday- Monday. I'll bring a green
salad for the pot luck. Can't wait to meet everyone!
Tweety
Pam & Steve
Lance 1475

[JohnB]

Pam, YEH!!!!! Great! I have you signed up!!

Timing is everything.... Curious on what that new camper looks like. I seemed to have missed the Fox....

See you in a few days.

John

[Tweety]

Almost home! Just want to thank everyone for making us feel so welcome. And thanks John for all the effort you put into the gathering, and for adding lovely bike ride to the agenda!

[JohnB]

Hi Pam,

Glad you made it home safely. It was great to see Steve and you again and thanks for the bike ride too!! We had a great time and look forward to next years event.

Here are few pics from the weekend.





The merry bunch of campers!


Thanks

John

[Sunline Fan]

Looks like a great time was had by all! When I get new tires for the '97, I'll definitely add this to the schedule.