August 21, 2006:
MTTS day 1 – Beach party then South on California Highway 1
The MINI Takes The States beach party kicked off MTTS this morning, followed by 5-6 hours drive south, much of it on fabulous twisty California Highway 1; see the Gallery for pics … here’s some highlights:
Sand MINI:
Hula Hoop Challenge:
Limbo Challenge:
Speech from Jim McDowell, with Quack Quack Jack listening:
Oh Goody!
South on Highway One:
A couple of minor issues on the day – I don’t like sand so I’d have preferred a pebble beach! The for sale merchandise was apparently more popular than MINI anticipated, with long queues as a result – and it closed during the speeches leaving people that had queued a long time with nothing! Hopefully MINI will put more staff on later legs …
Also, many MINIs arrived well before any of the organisation staff, and were lost trying to find the non-yet-existing meeting place! I think they need to send a car ahead of the pack.
Theo (2006/08/22 @ 4:20 pm)
Gee, Ian! Sounds like the event could use some MINIs on Top style logistics planning, eh what?
pbraun (2006/08/22 @ 6:45 pm)
Ian – can you get me a metal MTTS grill badge?
Ian C. (2006/08/22 @ 9:12 pm)
Theo – they did take some hints from us (for example a page of names/faces)