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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
My parade number is 445. You must have stayed up late to register just after midnight to get a low number like that. I have been as low as 100s a couple of times. Actually when I was the registrar for the Oklahoma Parade back in 1996 I could have assigned myself almost anything except the first few numbers. I think I was 60 something back then. Last year I was in the high 800s.
We are staying at the Hyatt for the week. I will change hotels for Saturday's DE. Max, what is a good place to stay on Saturday 21st? I figure close to the track would be nice. I will have to get up early on the 22nd and start the long drive home.
Every year the price goes up for Parade. It is annoying that the club wants to make so much money. The national club has about 4 or 5 million in assets and will make over 1/2 a million on Parade in profit.
The DE is rather pricey for a day of fun as well. I wonder what that track rents for for the day? It must be a ton. Ah well, it's just money.
The registration web site is vastly improved. Last year was just horrible.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Whew, a busy day at work.
It took an hour to register for Parade this morning.
Then I had to drive to downtown OKC through the traffic 
All those suckers with real jobs requiring them to drive into downtown. that has to suck.
I had to park on the street and walk a block to the City of OKC municipal building and get a building permit approved and pay the fee for the storm shelter. I discovered if one tries to do that in the middle of the day when traffic is light the line at the permit office is a minimum one hour wait. If you get there in the morning the wait is just a few minutes.
Then when I went to lunch I stopped at a local 911 repair shop hand got him to sign off on my insurance appraisal form. I am raising the insured value on my car and they insist on a professional to evaluate the car. Now I have to have my agent take some photos of the car. I have not even had time for my afternoon nap! |
I am glad I did not try to do it in the half hour after I get dressed and before I leave for work. Took a while. I was not sure if it started at 12am eastern or pacific time, and a friend texted me at 9pm pacific and told me to register now or it would sell out. So I got to it after dinner and was done about 11:30.
Most of the times I have been to Laguna Seca I/we just stayed in SLO and drove up in the morning for the races in the afternoon. I haven't made any hotel arrangements yet. Still need to talk with my dad about it. We stayed once at a place in Seaside I think.
I hope I can do the Parade laps at Laguna Seca after the Canepa tour. It doesn't say anything about noise limit.
Tickets for the Monterey Historics for 3 days are less expensive than the basic registration fee for Parade. I ended up spending about $550 last night for Parade, events, and goodie stuff. And I still have to do hotels. Might stay in SLO a couple of the nights.