Re: Vegas Winery Drive & Lake Meade Cruise

["Ray Haug" <rdh@xxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Substelny <msubstel@xxxx> wrote:
> > DMLers about the winery drive, the Lake Mead cruise, and other 
moments
> from the 2000 Expo?
> 

Mike,

Hopefully by the end of the long weekend, I will have an on-line 
report posted on the DOA website at:

http://www.delorean-owners.org/events/2000expo.html

Linda Porter and Marcie just returned from an adventurous week in PA. 
planning the DOA's 20th anniversary road rally, so I am still waiting 
for the official Las Vegas report from Linda. If any DML's have some 
neat photos that you like to share on the event, please e-mail them 
to me personally at: rdh at hozt.com.

Vegas has sure changed since the last event. The RIO is HUGE, Las 
Vegas is HUGE. The larger hotels have everything - FINE SHOPPING, 
ENETERTAINMENT, GAMBLING, AND GREAT FOOD. The new Alladin has over 1 
mile of shopping stores. Marcie and I wore ourselves out in the 3 
days before the EXPO. So much for Vegas.

With just over 150 in attendance at Expo 2000 and about 30 DeLoreans 
it was one of the smaller Expos in recent years, but it was an 
excellent event. We put on a lot of miles in the two driving events, 
The Lake Mead drive - cruise was ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS - it was our own 
private boat, the Captain took us very close to the Hoover Dam, even 
let some of us 'steer the ship', and we all made it safely to the 
dock. We were able to get most of the cars together near the landing 
and several photo shots were made as the Cruise Boat came in to the 
background.

The winery drive on Saturday took forever to get outside the 
sprawling Las Vegas residential tracts, and was a long drive through 
Red Rock Canyon and on to Pahrumph. Winery visit was very enjoyable 
wine tasting, winery tour, and outstanding lunch. The scenery was not 
as nice as the last time we visited the winery, as housing tracts are 
being built right up to the parking lot and the wide open spaces 
around the winery are no more.

Tech Talks by Rob Grady and Ed Bernstein were outstanding and well 
attended by the DeLorean techies.

Saturday's banquet was outstanding with Great Buffet, very 
informative presentation on Eurofest 2001 by Robert Lamrock, 
Excellent DJ, and Great Raffle Prizes with the German DeLorean model 
that's been recently discussed on the DML as the top prize of the 
night.

Visit the DOA web-site for more photos and details very soon.

Registration for Eurofest 2001 will be available on the DOA web-site 
beginning Jan 1, 2001.

Ray Haug, Internet Director
DeLorean Owners Association