Can Opener '08 Rally

[LI Pets]

CAN OPENER 2008
Reserve your site and come on down.This is one great rally you can not miss.
You get the best of everything. Great People, Great food, Great Sunsets,and most of all... LOTS OF FUN!!!!!
State:Florida
Where:Topsail State Park
When:Jan 4th - 6th
Reserve Your Site Here
Add Your Name To The Rally Calender
PM to Devoman


If I recall we had 38 last year, with all the great feedback from that event this one should be bigger.

So who's already booked?

Reservations updated 09-12-07. Click to enlarge site map:

[clancy_boy]

I don't know who is organizing this - BUT WE ARE IN!!!!!

That makes 2 - any more?

We had a great time and the campgrounds were perfect.

[dudebb]

For those of us who are newbies, could you give out a little more info? Where, what, who etc. I just fidured it was in a warm area but LI Pets is from NY????
Thanks!

[clancy_boy]

I'm not in the planning for one of these but I can tell you a little about last years rally.

It was at Topsail campground in Destin, Florida. Their website is great and the campground was very nice, near the beach, concrete pads, full hookups, etc. We had a bunch show up as stated above - lots of food and fun. Weather in January is very nice. It's - I believe - in the first week of January, I have yet to see this years dates.

Post rally comments are in the original thread at te end. Check the link below.

http://www.airforums.com/forums/f288...lly-27292.html

[dudebb]

Thanks Clancy Boy.

[Sugarfoot]

Yep, I'm in too. It is the first full weekend in January (thus the Can OPENER ). Devoman had the brilliant idea of a "little Florida get-together" in the winter and ended up organizing a smashing New Year's tradition this past January.

I think Devoman was holding off on starting a thread until the Georgia Falluminum was nearly underway.

[moosetags]

Last year was very good. I'm up for it again. The first weekend in January, 2008 is 4-5-6 (Fri-Sat-Sun).

[SwampBillies]

We missed it last year. I can't wait to make it up this year! Be sure to let us newbies know what all we need to do.

[clancy_boy]

Originally Posted by moosetags

Last year was very good. I'm up for it again. The first weekend in January, 2008 is 4-5-6 (Fri-Sat-Sun).

That's funny, all you have to do is wake up and take a short drive down the beach and you are there from what I remember.....

Hope to see you all there again in '08, it was a great way to start the year off.

[SilverCabin]

I chatted with Steve (Devoman) a few weeks back. He was the organizer of this event in 2007 and said he intended to do it again in 2008. Here's his reply in a PM to me:

Originally Posted by Devoman

I will be posting the Can Opener sometime around September.It will be on the 4th to the 6th like you had mentioned.Hopefully it wont tease us with the rain like it did the last time.LOL.

We've already reserved site 140 for January 4 - 6 at Topsail.

Randy

[kposey]

I'm in. TJ said he is coming too. Now we just have to figure out which camper to bring. His SOB or my new to me Airstream!!!!

[Minnie's Mate]

Originally Posted by kposey

I'm in. TJ said he is coming too. Now we just have to figure out which camper to bring. His SOB or my new to me Airstream!!!!

Did you get a new Airstream since the Springstream Kathy? Congratulations if you did!

BTW, we're in the same site as last year. I reserved the site a couple of months ago to make sure we got the same one. The camp ground is so nice that the snow birds fill it up in January so if you are interested you'd better start looking for a site. If you go to the thread linked about and look for the map, you can see the section we were in last year. Try to get in that section. It is posh. The other section is more typical of state parks and I don't think they have sewer hook-ups. It'd be great to have that whole section in aluminum this year...or fiberglass if your's is a Squarestream or Landyacht motorhome.

[kposey]

I pick her up on Saturday! Ruth is beside herself because she'll be at the horse show in Shelbyville and can't go with me.

[Poprivet]

I have booked the same site as last year - arrive 1/3/08 leave 1/8/08.

last year this was a gourmet event.

[Roadtoaster]

Can't find my reservation but we are booked.

Greg

[clancy_boy]

OK - now look at what has been started - a run on sites. I'm going home to book mine now. No official rally yet and 6 sites are booked - just mention a rally around here and we all jump in.........


Gotta go - 30 minute drive home, by then 10 more sites will be gone .

[Overlander & Sea]

More newbies on the way! We missed it last year, but we're in this year. Sounds like a great time, we're looking forward to meeting everyone. Just booked site 134.

[HowieE]

Boy am I glad to hear it is a go. I book a site last Feb. just to beat the Sept. rush.

[clancy_boy]

Originally Posted by Overlander & Sea

More newbies on the way! We missed it last year, but we're in this year. Sounds like a great time, we're looking forward to meeting everyone. Just booked site 134.

Hey, keep in touch - we can caravan over........

[Sugarfoot]

Originally Posted by kposey

I pick her up on Saturday! Ruth is beside herself because she'll be at the horse show in Shelbyville and can't go with me.

Here I am 2 miles up the road from you, we've even emailed each other this week and no mention of a "new" Airstream. You sure can keep a secret! Congrats . . .

Yeah, we booked too and quite a while back . . . site 138 this time. Better get on it Clancy Boy.