Arlington Fiero Picnic June 5th

Capt Fiero wrote: Make sure to have your Passport with your driver's license with you.

Should mention that a Passport is not required if you have an Enhanced Driver's License.

 

As someone who has never been to the Arlington event before, I need to ask this question...

If the weather is as crappy next Saturday as it is/was today, does anyone still go? I honestly don't think I'd be interested.

Of course the event is still a week away (as of the date of this post), so I realize a lot can happen with the weather in the meantime (although the forecast is not looking good).

 

crystal, kiera and I may join you till Arlington in the kia and then
continue to Olympia to p/u my new intake

well the rain has stopped a few in past years but the majority usually
push on, it is also usually better weather there than here

I got the wife to agree to going to the event, (her ex was the prez of a Tacoma Mustang club) she had a bad vibe about it, But we will be visiting the daughter in Everett in the same trip. Will be looking forward to matching faces with names.

Attempt at Re-Edit of the schedule, I'll try to fix the
first page as well.

This is all the time info I have, and its a rough
schedule at best. Hopefully you can judge our aprx time
from it.   We will be on GMRS CH# 20 so if you have a
radio find a place near the hwy and keep it tuned in and
listen for our radio chatter.

JUNE 5th 2010 Saturday

6:15am-6:45am
We will meet at the Tim Horton's just East of the Corner
of HWY 10 and 152nd Street in Surrey at that time we will
all check our FRS's Radio's and set all radios to channel
20. If you have spare radio's please bring them as it
would be nice to see a radio in every car. MAKE SURE YOU
HAVE GOOD BATTERIES. Most people grab coffee and a pop
while we look over the cars. VOX IS NOT PERMITTED ON THE
DRIVE. If your radio has VOX capability Please do not use
it. VOX is the Voice Activated portion of some Radios. It
might be great in the forest, but in a car on the highway
with cabin noise, and wind and stereos they have a
tendency to activate the
radio and lock out anyone else from talking.

6:45am we will leave and head for the border Crossing at
176th street.. Make sure to have your Passport with your
driver's license with you.

7:30am After we all clear customs we will regroup just
across the border at a gas station for those that wish to
fill
up with the cheaper American fuel. Then I-5 bound.

8:30am We will make one stop at a rest area about 1/2
way down, sorry I don't remember the exact address. Just
keep your eyes and ears open. After re-grouping at the
rest area, next stop Arlington, Look out Jet City here we
come.     

Once we arrive in Arlington

9:30am Arrive at Arlington
Take exit 206 and head east about 3-4 blocks to a Food
Mart there will be a grocery store where we can buy
picnic supplies. There will also be a car wash close at
hand.- Plan is for those that want to give their car a
quick scrub to do that first off. Then head for the
grocery store and get whatever they plan to bring.   Buy
anything you want specialty grilled IE steaks and sauces.
We will then caravan to the ultra light air field for the
actual picnic.

The picnic starts at 10am

We will depart Arlington at 5pm, with cleanup starting
at 4pm.

Quick info
GMRS Channel 20
Meeting at Tim Horton's HWY 10 and 152nd Street in
Surrey. 6:30am
Cross Boarder at 7am need passport .
My cell is 1-604-807-2623
My email is capt@captfiero.com

I don't think my better half understood that to get ready for a pic-nic required getting up in the A.M. We are at least 45 minutes from I-5 whether olympia or tacoma. I would have to depart home well before she is willing. As of right now I will drive up to mount vernon on the fourth and wait for the Parade. will have a walkie talkie on 20, if we miss connections, will see you at the shindig.  

Brothers, does anyone know what time we'd be getting back at? My whore of a boss decided to allocate me work starting at 7pm. WOOT.

Just found this cool site....
(BC Gov't one at that!)

It plots on a graph, the wait times at various borders:
http://www.cascadegatewaydata.com/crossing/day?id=12&mea sures[]=delay&date=2010-05-29&Update=Update

This shows the Pac Hwy crossing, southbound, for last Saturday.
If you check the volume@times by clicking on the 'show data table', you can see the HUGE spike (the numbers low, but it's a 50% jump!) at like 7:05.  And then it just gets worse (about 800% from low to high) until about 3PM when it starts to level off.

So since (in theory) we're all shoving off at 6:30, we SHOULD beat the major pack.  But I think we'll have to hard-nose the time this year, even if someone's "almost there".  With my f'd up ankle, I'm hesitant to even make the trek - and I really can't get stuck in on again off again traffic!  And with my tranny having 'issues' I decided against inflicting it on someone else.

I believe we've done at an hour wait at the border on at least one of our trips before.