Safe Travels to All,

SMOKE SIGNALS

DECEMBER 2008

 

With no campouts since October, there isn’t a lot of news to report in December.  Many of our members have headed to Florida and some of them back already for the holidays.

We can look back over some good times with great food and fellowship and look forward anxiously to spring and another season of campouts and rallies. 

 

Our Christmas Dinner on December 20^th will be our last time together as a club for 2008.  We have 32 registered to attend so this should be a good time.  We hope the weather will cooperate this year and that everyone stays healthy.  If you have suggestions for when and where to plan next years Christmas Dinner, I’m sure Ed would appreciate the input.  Sherry Herbert, our caterer last year and again this year, has said it will be her last year.

Be thinking about places and/or times and share these at our meeting in April.

 

It has been a rough year for Holiday Rambler and it’s members with the economy and fuel prices but hopefully things will improve sometime in the not too far distant future.  We need to continue to encourage our members and remember that recruiting is a job for all of us.  Mike and Sharon Mathews met a new couple, from the Elkhart area who are full-timers now, at the luncheon in FL.  They told them about the Indiana chapters and hope they will visit us this next year.  Maybe fuel prices will be more affordable so we can all attend more club activities. 

 

The rallies and campouts are where memories are made.  For those who have been in the club for a number of years, you could fill a book with your memories. How well we remember our 1^st state rally at Muncie, IN.  The people we met there are special friends. Just a few years ago it was 107 degrees in Sedalia, MO at the International Rally and I’m already looking forward to going back.  (Maybe it will be a few degrees cooler this next year).  I rode the tram there once just to see where it went.  It seemed like and hour and a half out to the orange section-wow!  Who would have thought it would be in the 90’s in Maine a couple of years ago.  Remember the terrible tasting water in Texarkana a few years back.  They said the lake that their drinking water comes from “turned over”.  We carried bottled water into the restaurants with us.  At Berrian Springs, MI  there were more units than they had hook-ups for, 1300+ wasn’t it?  They sold 100 new units that year.  I’m sure Holiday is hoping that will happen again someday!!

 

As we look forward to a new year lets all remember that we help make the memories for our new members.  There are still a lot of Holiday Ramblers units out on the highways without numbers and people riding in them that don’t know what they are missing.  Lets try to meet and encourage them to become a part of our club.

 

At this Christmas Season, we can all be thankful for the opportunities we have had.  May we keep Christ in our Christmas and remember every good and perfect gift comes from Him.

 

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

 

Judy Combs, Secretary