Wow! What a week! My first time out of the US and I can say that I wasn’t disappointed. Before I even get started, a quick and HUGE thank you to everyone that made this trip possible, made it easy and made MINI United 2007 such a great event! And, of course, shout-outs to all the new MINI Peeps we met! I hope to see you all again at MINI United 2009!
Before you begin, I’ll warn you now that I did manage to go pretty long with this. There are also quite a few pictures (all link back to flickr) so if you are on a slow connection it might take a bit to load.
LAX To London
First time on a 747. What a beast!
Of course, the geek in me had to cruise over to the Boeing site to get all the specs. These planes are large and fast! A great combination for long haul flights. Heading north from LA to catch the jet stream, ground speed was about 550mph. Once we were riding the stream, ground speed increased to over 600MPH! Quick tip for future reference; If the money can be spent, upgrade out of coach. Trust me on this one.
Meet up with Todd and his wife, drive to Oxford
Tired and hot (temp was almost 30C in London on Tuesday), I finally arrive at our hotel in London after what I can only describe as the craziest taxi ride ever! I never rode in a passenger car before and wanted a helmet and Nomex driving suit. To my drivers credit, it wasn’t really him. It was just as much everyone else. Cut-off or be cut-off I’m sure is the mantra there.
You see, this is Oliver Seebach. By far the hardest working man at MINI United 2007. He was Mr. All-Go-no-quit!
He is finishing up his thesis at University and has developed a poll. Some of you have seen it over at Motoringfile a few weeks ago, and some of you took it. Those of you that, thanks!
But Oliver is still a few responses short of what he needs and German responses are outnumbering the US responses 2 to 1!
So, if you have an extra 10 or 15 minutes, it would be great if you could click the link below and take the survey. I know Oliver would appreciate it!
Club and Community Survey
I’m still working on the MU write up. It’s amazing how far behind you get when you are gone for a week. Check back later in the week for it!
check me out. Explaining podcasting (and showing logs) to Gert Hildebrand and a couple of the designers of the R56.
Great pic Gabe! Thanks!
Full event write – up, with pictures, to come soon!
Lets see if this works, shall we?
Of course there are pictures too!
Check them all out over at the MU Group as well!
In case you aren’t keeping up with the MU Blog, I’ve been posting pictures all day…and night
You can see them all over at the MU Flickr Group
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