"A Boxster Luau" at the Green Park Inn, then "Retire to the Divide".
Evening drive to 'Boxster Roadhouse' dinner in Lenoir, NC.
Awards and dinner.
. . . and departure for home.
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The Blue Ridge Boxster Summit is a convivial, annual gathering of Porsche Boxster owners and drivers in the Blue Ridge mountains of the eastern United States. This year the meeting took place in Blowing Rock, NC. There have been two previous convocations documented by others under 1999 BRBS and 2000 BRBS II, but this year's meeting is the first I've attended. There is an analogous Boxster interest group, TBHL, that meets annually in the western U.S. In addition there are numerous other, smaller and more regionally oriented events scheduled on an ad hoc basis and generally listed under the Boxster Events page of Porsche Pete's Boxster Board, the Premier web meeting place for Boxster enthusiasts.
Other BRBS III participants have made their view accessible on the web, from:
Lorne Blackman, |
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Thursday | - | 7 June |
driving from Ann Arbor, MI to the BRBS-III in North Carolina, "A Boxster Luau" at the Green Park Inn, then "Retire to the Divide". |
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| Friday | - | 8 June |
Boxster Lineup, display of enhancements or modifications. Evening drive to 'Boxster Roadhouse' dinner in Lenoir, NC. |
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| Saturday | - | 9 June |
'Boxster Lineup' and group photograph, Grandfather Mountain. Awards and dinner. |
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| Sunday | - | 10 June |
Good byes, . . . and departure for home. |
[ Bob C. | Ferhat Büyükkökten | Bob Baker | Jeff Bankston | Rob Granger | Mike Killian | Greg Laporte |
Sean Scott | Joe Urban | Al Vogl ]
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| ZeeBee on the road to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina |
[ Bob Baker | Tom Bobbitt | Eleanor Bobbitt | Ferhat Büyükkökten | Meredith Everett | Dan Grieco | Kathryn Kent |
Jim LaPiana | Greg Laporte | John Pratt | Jason Reiser | Sean Scott | Skyler | Hal Sommer | Bob Stoll |
Joe Urban | Trey Vinson | Al Vogl | Mickey Wallmeyer | Jerry Wheeler | Alan Wotherspoon | Joan Wotherspoon ]
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| Some BRBS-III Participants at the 2001 Blue Ridge Boxster Summit III |
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The two map examples below illustrate the fact that I have yet to combine the vector graphic and raster graphic mapping programs. However, both use the same decimal degree track database, though the (arbitrary) track-colors are reversed for the going and return trip. The scales of course are different in these two maps. The vector graphic map on the left uses a coarse coastline and political (state) boundary data set in an Albers equal area conic projection. The map on the right is a raster graphic based on the USGS 1km digital elevation model data in a geographic projection. It attempts to correctly represent surface elevation features while disregarding north-to-south area differences due to projecting the spheroidal earth surface onto a plane. Each pixel represents about a square kilometer. |
 vector graphic map A detailed map of ZeeBee's tracks in the Blowing Rock, NC area and also in Europe. The latter describes the GPS methods I employ. I also have a general MAP page. |
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Just some brief notes to illustrate my BRBS-III travels in ZeeBee.
Data transcribed from voice notes taken with SONY ICD-7 digital voice recorder.
7 June 2001 - trip to Blowing Rock, NC odometer/ trip time note 23623 / 0.0 3:16 driveway, home, Ann Arbor, start-of-trip to BRBS-III 23666 / 42.7 3:55 23, crossing MI-OH border, cruising 76 mph 23687 / 64.2 4:14 flashing police car at start of tar resurfacing, 41 mph, tween trucks 23735 / 111.5 4:56 merged with 23, heading for Marion, OH 23822 / 199.4 6:40 leaving Bob Evans, after photographing Columbus OH BB crew 23914 / 290.7 9:11 crossing Ohio River 23955 / 332.2 10:04 lowered top, south of Ashland, on US-23 24016 / 393.4 11:45 Prestonsburg, KY; at Nicholas' office, after rain, humid, ~75F 24060 / 437.0 14:00 end of heavy rain, sun starting to come out, heading to Kingsport 24150 / 527.1 15:39 traffic jam due to accident, I-81, 19 miles SW of Bristol, TN 24153 / 530.0 16:05 unloading GPS, overcast, drizzling, put top down on way to B.R. 24236 / 613.9 18:27 Green Park Inn, Blowing Rock, NC 10 June 2001 - return to Ann Arbor, MI odometer/ trip time note 24380 / 757.5 8:25 depart Green Park Inn, Blowing Rock for Lenoir 24409 / 786.3 8:56 heading north, about 9 mi N of Lenoir on NC-18 Monday, 10 June 24435 / 832.0 9:57 entered Blue Ridge Parkway, cool, sunny morning 24504 / 11:08 fueled at Fancy Gap, depart Blue Ridge, on to I-72 to Wyethville, VA 24569 / 946.2 12:42 Mexican lunch at Bluefields, WV-52 24715 / 1091 16:00 stop south of Huntington, off VW-52 to unload 100% full GPS 24913 / 1290 19:46 very beautiful, warm evening; just N of Dayton on I-70 24941 / 1318 20:14 rest stop on I-75; met Canadian mystery story writer 25000 / 1376 21:34 on I-75, about 64 miles S of Toledo, OH 25111 / 1488 23:14 in driveway, Greenview Drive, Ann Arbor; end-of-trip
I've also been asked a number of times how many photographs I've taken during the
BRBS-III events.
Well here is the calculation . . .
. . . or a total of 885 Nikon D1 photos. That represents approximately 1GB of file space.file name date time DSC_2257.JPG 2001.06.07 06:37:08 : DSC_3141.JPG 2001.06.10 20:20:44
I've not totaled the financial cost of the trip, but ordinary expenses are somewhere between
$600.00 and $800.00.
A similar amount could be attributed to amortizing the cost of ZeeBee during this trip.
On the other hand, the value of this trip was beyond notation or computation.
... still considerable work to be done here.