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Details

Your Host(s): Jeff (colejd)

Drive Pace: Spirited

Day Start Time Finish Time Cost Meeting Place People Limit MINIs Limit
Saturday 7:45am 4:00pm Pay for your own breakfast and lunch Fontana Vilage Resorty Lobby 45 none

Pay for your own breakfast and lunch. Welcome to the MOTD edition of Blimey’s Tiny Tour of Terror. This will be a long trip but you will be driving all the best roads in the area of the Dragon. This is one big loop with stops to refresh and lunch at Papa's Pizza in Robbinsville. Trip should take approximately 7 hours.

This year, for the first time in 6 years of my leading this event, we will be doing a Reverse Blimey. After a buffet breakfast at the Mountview Restaurant at the Fontana Village Resort, we will leave down NC Hwy 28 towards Franklin, NC. This is also known as the Moonshiner Run. From Franklin we head up Wayah Road, over Wayah Bald, and down past Lake Nantahala and then towards Robbinsville. In Robbinsville we will stop for lunch at Papa's Pizza. After lunch, we will head up the Cherohala Skyway from NC into TN. We will continue unto the Tail of the Dragon and the Hellbender (NC Hwy 28) back to Fontana Village.

This route has enough twisties to satisfy any MINI lover. You will be saying “Uncle” at the finish.

Pace: Don't let the name of the run scare you. While this run is for spirited drivers, as always, we will keep it safe. A good time is to be had by all. If you love carving twisty mountain roads then this is for YOU! We will stop for short breaks; mostly to regroup and enjoy some of the scenery (and let the tires cool). This is 210 miles of pure driving nirvana. This is for all those twisty addicts we have out there. Consider this your warning.

Bring: GMRS Radios !!! 20sub20
Approx Time: 7 hours (including a 1 hour lunch stop)
Lunch: Papa'sPizza in Robbinsville, NC

Your Schedule (give or take a little)

Start Finish Activity
7:45am Meet in the Fontana Village Resort Lobby for a quick driver’s meeting before a buffet breakfast at the Mountview Restaurant.
8:00am 8:45am Buffet breakfast at the Mountainview Restaurant
8:45am 9:00am Drive MINIs to starting point across from the General Store Parking Lot at Fontana Village
9:00am 12:00pm Drive the Moonshiner Run (Hwy 28) to Franklin and down Wayah Rd. to Robbinsville
12:00pm 1:00pm Lunch at Papa's Pizza in Robbinsville
1:00pm 4:00pm Drive the Cherohala Skyway, the Dragon’s Tail, and the Hellbender back to Fontana Village

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Additional Links: Papa's Pizza
Garmin GPX Map

Who Is Going?

There are currently 32 people signed up with 22 MINIs attending.

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  4. Duncan
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  8. HalfPint
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  12. jpmart97
  13. JUDI
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  15. kmlander
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  17. mbouchie
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  22. Pacosdog
  23. Passleft
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  26. Silver Streak
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  28. SPUD
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