RIV location change

[mbulriss]

My initial impression is that it doesn't seem like a bad idea to move
it around the center portion of the country to help more people to
attend. Logistically, it will be a lot more of a challenge for the
factory to pull off each year. Finding places large enough to hold
everyone that might attend is a real challenge, but FMCA does it (I
noted the KOA has something like 187 total sites, and there were what,
200 at last year's? What if it grows to 300 or 400 like year's past?
Do you limit attendance based on first come to register and then
potentially alienate others? There's a PR nightmare.)

I'm sure some purists will moan the moving of RIV, but new company,
new direction, move forward from the past and create your own history
isn't all bad. Easing the travel burden of everyone outside the
southeast might even increase attendance.

Good luck to them.

Mike Bulriss
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Birtles"
wrote:
>
> Riv Is October 19-23 KOA Branson
>
> Stephen 77fc35 gonna be at Rats
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Don Bradner"
> wrote:
> >
> > There has been no public announcement. After I saw a note saying
> that it was going to be changed, I e-mailed Macy. Part of his response
> that is pertinent to your question:
> >
> > "We can take it one year at a time though, nothing is permanent or
> cast in
> > stone.
> >
> > "We felt that offering a changing venue, new places to see and
> explore, and
> > not making one group (western based owners) always do all the
traveling
> > east, was a fair and exciting way to change things up."
> >
> > On 4/22/2008 at 2:05 PM Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> >
> > >Just curious why it moved and if it's temporary or permanent?
> > >
> > >Dorn Hetzel
> > >77FC35
> > >Hogansville, GA
> > >
> > >On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Don Bradner
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> For those who don't read WOG, word is that Rally-in-the-valley
> will be
> > >> moving to Branson, MO, this year. RATS will remain as scheduled,
> at least
> > >> for this year.
> > >>
> > >> Having made unchangeable plans based on attending RIV in Perry it
> means
> > >> that we won't be there, but we still plan to attend RATS.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>