2011 Northeast Rod Run Oct 1 - 3
 

Hey guys, here is a summary of a small roadtrip that I set up every year. 2011 will be our 4th year doing this and the number of participants have grown every year. Still not a huge group, but it's not uncommon to be cruising down the highway with at least 30 different musclecars at any one time.

For the third time in our four years, things will be kicking off from a new location, this time at the Wyndham Hotel in Portland, Maine.

Once the trip gets underway Saturday morning, we will be heading over to Route 1 and following the coast up through some of New England's small fishing towns until we arrive at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Rockland, Maine. After everyone gets their fill of what Owl's Head has to offer, the Rod Run will continue north and if the weather cooperates we will take a quick stop in Camden, to make a run up Mt. Battie and get a lookout over Penobscot Bay and actually be able to see Mt. Desert Island off in the distance. From there we will continue onto the Penobscot Narrows Bridge as we cross over onto Mt. Desert Island and Bar Harbor for our final stop of the day. Hopefully we will be there by mid-afternoon, so that everyone will have plenty of time to take in some of the Eastern Seaboard's most beautiful coastline, while also enjoying a nice ride through Acadia National Park. As we lose daylight, people can take in the sunset over the harbor on the town green, and then later can enjoy a nice relaxing night at any one of the many the restaurants and bars downtown. For the more adventurous, they can re-enter the park and take a late night ride up to the top of Cadillac Mountain under just the light of the moon and stars. Yes, I mean drive up a winding mountain road that has NO lighting. Bring a flashlight!

When Sunday morning comes around, the early risers can once again take a trip up to the top of the highest peak on the Atlantic coast, to take in a sunrise over the harbor, from the first place in the United States that the sun rises every morning. Our first stop of the day will the Cole Transportation Museum in Bangor, Maine. From there we will head west along Route 2 into New Hampshire, until we arrive in the Mount Washington Valley area.

As always (except maybe 2012), the Northeast Rod Run will conclude on Monday. This is when we all usually head our own way, but for those that want to extend it a little more, the trip will continue in the shadows of the Presidential Mountain Range.

If this sounds like your type of thing, go over to our small website at www.northeastrodrun.com sign up on the forum and check things out. You can also search us out on Facebook and MySpace (that one isn't updated too often) and see plenty of pictures, from past trips on those sites.

If anyone has questions, they are best off asking through the website or the Rod Run's email because we are on a lot of forums so it's hard to get back to all of them in a timely manner

Thanks for reading and hope to see some of you on this year's Run!

This sounds exactly like something we'd like to do!

Hope to see you on it this year then. It's a very laidback time with cool people. The average age of the participants is probably early to mid-forties, and they've "all been there - done that", so nobody on the trip feels the need to try and impress anyone else, as I've seen on these types of things before. There are a couple of younger people also, but even those guys/girls don't cause any trouble.

It's very loosely organized by only those of us that go on the trip, so all we ask is that everyone leave their egos at the door. We want to see this grow, but we don't want the immaturity that sometimes goes with bigger events, if you all know what I mean.

Not trying to sound like an ass, or make us sound like a bunch of old farts, but I think you all can see what I'm trying to say. Don't get me wrong, there is some "spirited driving" amongst the people involved, but they all know when and where they should or shouldn't be doing it. We also usually have a pretty good time going late into the nights also. Those mornings are a real bear to get back up early and do it all over again though

Gotta say that sounds badass

If you go on NERR's forum, there are links to other hosting sites that have plenty more pics from past trips. We are still working on the website's gallery, so there really isn't much in there, but hopefully we will soon have that up to speed also

The website is something we started pushing just recently, so it would be easier for people to get all the info about the trips. I used to send out blanket emails to everyone, but we've started to get a little to big to be able to do that efficiently, so the website/forum just became a necessary addition.

Finances pending i might do this. Would be a nice trip with a lady friend. Romantic and fun

Good way to cap off the season.

That's kind of how a lot of people look at it. One final run before the toys go away.

Many updates on the Rod Run's website, including hotel info, since I last posted up on here

sounds fun but it's a bit far for me and if I remember it starts getting a bit chilly up that way in early Oct.(?) have a good one though.