RE: [VAL] Rally Open House for Vintage Trailers

["Tom \(et/al\)" <thomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wally,

The rally is convened during the "week of July 4th" ever year because that
was Wally Byam's birthday.  So if the 4th happens to fall on a Saturday like
it did this year the vintage open house has to be scheduled somewhere
in-between the opening and the closing day which happens to be July 4th
which also happens to be the very *last day* of this year's rally.  

So, the vintage open house would have had to have been last weekend -- but
the vintage trailers didn't come in together *until* last Saturday, I
believe that was June 26th.  With the vintage trailers having to get all set
up and parked, lines run, water hooked up and so much else I would doubt
that even by the next day (last Sunday) that they'd have been ready for
public company paying a call to visit.

On the other hand, these rallies are planed (I believe) 3 years in advance
and they also involve advance teams going to the agreed to sites years in
advance.  Maybe, just maybe, there needs to be more publicity in the cities
that will be hosting the rallies so that people who want to visit the
vintage trailers when the open house is "scheduled" on the events calendar
can make their own plans way ahead of time.

All in all, I think it has to do when July 4th falls, which day during the
week when the rally is scheduled.  If an entire weekend was involved as
would happen if the rally started on say a Wednesday, there wouldn't be a
question about the vintage open house being held on a weekend.

Tom
WBCCI 5303