Well, here we are, finally getting around to a GTR 08 report!  Bottom line?  Great rally!  This was our first GTR even though we had registered twice before!  (Illness/injury kept us from going two years running).  As it turns out, this was the ideal year for a bunch of Floridians to go!  It was *almost* as flat as it is around Clearwater!  I posted some details and a few pics on the RideBoards under the Florida/TampaBay forum, so I’ll try not to repeat much of that, but there are numerous thumbnailed pics at the end.  What I want to do here is tell you about OUR Georgia Tandem Rally! 

This was actually a double vacation for us.  Last year we decided we needed a “guest bedroom”, (as most in Florida do … in the last 6 years, we’ve had company 13 times for a total of 48 weeks!), and since Maggi and I both love to camp we decided the perfect “room addition” was a small camper!  So we bought a used 22 footer dirt cheap, towed it home and parked it by the pool.  We already had a sewer hookup on that side of the house installed by the previous owner, so all I had to do was install a 30 amp power line and bingo!  Instant RV park!  Pool-side guest quarters complete with a/c, cable tv, full kitchen and bath!  And when we want to go camping, we can just hook up and haul ass!  

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