HOTEL and TRIP INFORMATION UPDATE – April 23, 2008

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Please make both of your hotel reservations before June 1st, 2008. This is a change of date from our first message. Then e-mail the Cameron’s at mec515@sbcglobal.net, so we can put you on the list!

We will begin our trip at Richmond, Illinois at 8 am on July 31, 2008 – Breakfast is available at the meeting location. Richmond is just east of 83 and just south of the Wisconsin border. We will drive through the Kettle Moraine area to our lunch stop in Dundee, Wisconsin. We will not be driving on any expressways for the entire trip.

First hotel: For the evening of Thursday, July 31, 2008:

Best Western Riverfront Inn, 1821 Riverside Avenue

Marinette, Wisconsin 54143, (715) 732-1000

Price: $ 79.00. – Tell them you are with the Windy City Miata Club

A group dinner at a local restaurant will be followed by a Thursday evening band concert in Menominee, Michigan. (Time permitting.)

Second hotel: For the evenings of Friday, Saturday and Sunday - August 1, 2 and 3, 2008

The Bella Vista Motel, Copper Harbor, Michigan, 877-888-8439

Tell them you are with the Windy City Miata Club/Marcia Cameron.

Prices and pictures are on their website: www.bellavistamotel.com

Tentative for Saturday, August 2: The Copperman Triathlon is being held at Fort Wilkins on Saturday. We have been told there will be a parade in the morning and a dance in the evening at Copper Harbor on Saturday, August 2. We are going on our final planning trip June 5 and we expect to be able to have the final information regarding this event when we get back, and will send out details at that time.

Departure on Monday, August 4, 2008 on your own. Several of the participants are planning a leisurely trip back through Michigan (4 days) to extend their vacations, while others must go back to the Chicago area on August 4, 2008. It is an easy one-day drive back to Chicago. We will be providing directions to go back to Chicago.

Your hosts for the Copper Harbor Tour:

Bill & Marcia Cameron  847-742-2963 and Joe & Nancy Marinello  630-420-1717. Please contact Nancy Marinello at nancymarinello@yahoo.com or 630-420-1717 if you need further information.