Va/Md Region Annual Crab Feast - July 26 - Annapolis cruise after ?

[zoomie]

The central Maryland group is meeting Gus Strakes at Owings Mills Mall,
Macy's side, and leaving for Annapolis at 11:00 am. Meeting the rest of
the Va/Md region at the U. S. Naval Academy stadium at noon. From there
as a group through the Bay Bridge tolls, and over the Kent Island Narrows bridge to the Crab Deck for lunch. Expecting about 60 Vipers ?
Also going to try and have a 'mass bridge crossing photo shoot' if we can,
as the caravan crosses the east end of the bridge.

Afterwards, I plan on taking a cruise through the Annapolis City Dock area
on the way back to Baltimore. Anyone else interested in a short
cruise ?

Last year I pulled into the City Docks right behind a Testarossa 512.

[Viperzilla]

How was the Feast?

[Bonkers]

Fun day, but traffic was a bummer. Route 50 was bumper-to-bumper both ways, and the DC crew got myred in Wildrow<sp?> Wilson bridge traffic. It was nice to put some faces to names.

[Viperzilla]

Traffic going to the tolls is always like that every year. To avoid it, you'd have to go through at 7 in the morning. No way around it. Everyone just going to the beach for a day or weekend, maybe even senior week. You get quite a few request to open the throttle once in a while when in traffic, which I'm sure you got that opportuinty.

[Ron Hickey]

We ended up with 58 Vipers and about 130 people at the Fisherman's Crab Deck. There was a 10-mile backup for the Bay Bridge, and those of us in the DC group coming from Northern Virginia took about an hour and a half to get across the Wilson Bridge. It took me exactly 3 hours to get from our meeting place in Virginia to the Crab Deck, at least 2 hours of which was spent sitting in a four-lane parking lot. Despite the 90+ degree outside weather, the temp gauge on my Viper never went past 3/4. Weather was bright and sunny, temps at the Crab Deck in the upper 80's.

[Viperzilla]

Consider yourselves lucky, Ron. I never thought I'd say this but I miss the MD weather. In Columbus, we've had low humidity mid to high 70s. I'm freezing out here. It seems like it's Maryland's mid fall. Maybe a solution is to take a ride in a Viper (without the vent blowing down on your _-_-_). Again, thanks for the ride at last years event, Ron!