Hello again,
I know that you have heard of our last meet to Hungry Valley OHV, last November. well, heres another

4x4 ELEMENT MEET!!!!!!
Overview:
I am planning on setting up a meet for all So. Cal element owners. For all of those who are interestered we will be going to El Mirage Dry Lake bed. There they have a 5-mile long (roughly) dry lake bed, Many light sand dunes and many hills. I have been there many times before and i kno that our elements will be able to handle it! A time and date will be det. later. The more people that attend the more fun this will be!!!! If you are interestered or you have any more questions please feel free to email me at
onimun123@hotmail.com
or post it here as a responce to this message.
Thanks and God Bless
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Who?: you anf anyone else thats interestered

What?: A fun offroad meet for all of us element owners

When:TBD

Where? El Mirage Dry Lake bed
Map click here (http://www.ca.blm.gov/images/barstow_images/elmiragemap.gif)

Why?:Why Not?

Directions: Map click here (http://www.ca.blm.gov/images/barstow_images/elmiragemap.gif)

A list of what to bring will be posted later, as long as we have enough people interestered/ signed up
Heres a great info link
http://www.ca.blm.gov/barstow/mirage.html

Thanks and God Bless


Members that Are attending ( So Far)

#1 Theelements
#2 Elemen-O-P ( Maybe)
#3 Biocube (maybe)
#4 Sheniferous ( Maybe)
#5 Topdog
#6 bbq_dan
#7 fotobox
#8 Fasterer
#9

I'm glad to see some serious "advance planning". Seeing as how hectic my schedule can get, its nice to be able to write this on the calendar and hope that nothing even remotely as important as an E meet, comes up.

Thanks for taking intrest in this meet. WE dont have a definate date but i hope to have one set up by christmas or so.... if you are interestered and you know youre available on some weekend in April or May please post it here, AIM me or PM me. thanks

Geez. El Mirage. That's home - I grew-up in Lancaster. I'm noting this on our calendar, although at the rate things are going we may still be in mid-move. Today's snow was yet another setback.

Just bear in mind that March is the tail of the "rainy season" (if you want to call it that) in Antelope Valley. So the "dry lake" may be a humongous mud flat.

well mike it seems like you know the area well..... when is the best time to go. ive been riding ( Motorcycles) there for about 10 years, so i kno the weather well, it seems like april& may are the best times.

Yep - April and May are the nice times of the year. The winds usually calm down 'round the first week of April. I have a fondness for late June, tho'. Your skin gets all prickly from the extra-low humidity and 100-plus temps, and it recalls childhood memories of the scree-scree-scree of swamp coolers.

It does get uncomfortably windy there Nov-Mar. On a lark I once made a kite out of a 4x8 sheet of plywood - and flew it! :shock:

oohhh yes the wind..... it does get very windy and very dusty there... so do you have any date that is the best time to go?

hey i'm down! lemme know the details when they're finalized! I'll try and go... assuming i'm not filming or something. :)

well, its a long way off, but i'm a definate possibility!

Sounds good you guys, when do you have a free Saturday or sunday from april - may? your help would be greatly appreciated...

I was thinking maybe April 23, 2005 or somthing like that... What do you guys think?

Count me in for next year's event. Sounds like fun.

sounds good my friend, it will be fun! Anyone else going? anyone else interestered? anyone here have a time in april or may when there available? thanks

Heres my suggestion, April 23, 2005... i think this would be the best time but its still up for discussion..

How can I turn this down? As a teenager, a bunch of us used to go to Coyote Dry Lake on the way to Ft. Irwin and we had a blast! Late April I believe would be the perfect time to go. We don't want to be out there when the winds kick up (like now!).

Due to my schedule this year, I haven't been away from home overnight in the 'E' yet. Before, I'd load my Dodge pickup to the gills with tent, sleeping bags, stoves, grills, smokers, ice chests, chairs, tables and A MATTRESS(!) It should be interesting to see what goes and what stays behind.

Maybe I'll load up the truck and tow the Element. Or get a roof rack. Or small trailer.

cool so april 23, 2005 is a set date?

Who here is interestered in camping, staying a night out there? other than bbq_dan?

Count me in for a day outing!

Not sure about camping though.

yeah im not sure bout camping either... just the day is cool. so april 23, 2005 is set... hope to see you all there, if you have ANY questions please PM me or Email me i would be happy to hear from you

i got it marked on my calendar! ill be there, if i dont get lost! :)

Is there any good hills that the E can climb? little small ones that arent too sandy? if so those are great fun. Also are there any campfires allowed? i have a great bbq if u are interestered :) , I probally wont spend the night but can have lunch and stuff. see u guys there :)

i got it marked on my calendar! ill be there, if i dont get lost! :)

Is there any good hills that the E can climb? little small ones that arent too sandy? if so those are great fun. Also are there any campfires allowed? i have a great bbq if u are interestered :) , I probally wont spend the night but can have lunch and stuff. see u guys there :)

Cool man see u there..
to answer your questions...

There are many great non sand hills that our e's can conquor. My friend in his 2wd ford Escape made many of them, so im sure that we can make em too!!! Theres the lakebed so we can see how fast our boxes can go!

Campfires are allowed so please bring it. I will later inclose a what to bring list.

Thanks for taking intrest and see u out there on April 23 05!!

P.s. Sunday night was awsome!!! see u there

hey i'm down! lemme know the details when they're finalized! I'll try and go... assuming i'm not filming or something. :)

So if we go on the 23 of April could you make it Shen?

I'll be in full swing at the event to show off my new beauty blue 04 EX! Looking forward to seeing and meeting many of you there! As a courier in Irvine, I am always seeing Nippolement everywhere!

cool. thanks hot box. so you work in irvine?? we shoulod hook up for lunch some time.

most definitely! u can pm or email me I usually have 20-30 mins starting around 1:45 or so, so if you ever take a super late lunch hit me up, maybe we can meet up somewhere or something.

post when you decide about lunch. if its semi-close to UCI, i'll join you

if its on a saturday im interestered...... what about saturday january 29?

hey that sounds pretty good, a Saturday will work as my E will look nice and sparkly clean (I'm washing my car every sat morning)! 29th is fine! What the rest of you say? A mini meet?

cool 29th sounds great. i just took off some of the sticker off the car and will new graphics on.
man i been seeing a lot of element going up and down jamboree lately.

cool so jan 29? where?

I Am Thining Either Uci Or Hb....maybe Uci Is Better...more People There On Weekends.

if u ever see a black driver in a blue ex on Jamboree it is most likely me...as a courier I'm up and down Jamboree a LOT ALL day! Near the 5 around Jamboree and Barranca and Redhill is where you may catch a glimpse of the hotbox in action! What area of Irvine do u work? What exactly do u do?

i design and make shoes and t shirts for the import market. and i do a lot of marketing and pormotion for aftermarket car company. yea i drive a lot and i do a lot of cars shows... i live right on jamboree in west irvine. my office is in irvine and i do work sometime in my friend's office in fountain vally.
most of my time is spent promoting products at shows and working the media.

someone please email me the confirmed details and i'll post on our eoc calendar

which meet tmac?

the lunch
4x4 meet

lunch is at jan 22 at 12 pm at uci , steelhead breawery

so is this going to be a mini EOC member get together? if so i would be interested. as UCI is only 30-45 minutes away from my house.

yeap it will be a mini meet..not a big one. just element and lunch. maybe some of the show car group will be there too.

to all so cal element owners:
ok the meet will be on the 22nd of jan at 12 pm at uci steel head brewery. i will be bringing in the new ebs break system to show you guys plus a pair of new tenzo racing seats with element mont if anyone is interested.
and we will have a late lunch at the shopping plaza there.
so bring your element or honda suv and i will see you all there.

i believe i shall try to make it there.

cool. hope more will come.

i'd love to be there, darn

unfortunately i will be interviewing a bunch of 17 year old for college, which is a whole different kind of fun.

next time!

unfortunately i will be interviewing a bunch of 17 year old for college, which is a whole different kind of fun.


OH NO!!! Please don't say that in front of me. Oh the horror. Yes. I am a high school senior. You're not working at the schools I applied to do you? (USC, Cal Poly Pomona or Cal State Fullerton?)

OH NO!!! Please don't say that in front of me. Oh the horror. Yes. I am a high school senior. You're not working at the schools I applied to do you? (USC, Cal Poly Pomona or Cal State Fullerton?)

woa me to! what school?

hah, don't worry

i'm interviewing youngsters for my alma matter, a small eastern college, not where i work.

besides, i don't think the cal schools do interviews, do they?

>i don't think the cal schools do interviews, do they?

Some do. I was interviewed for CalTech, and the interview is what shot me down (not nerdy enough, I think, 'cause SATs and H.S. grades were good enough). I would expect USC to do interviews, but OTOH that's a big-ticket school and they're a lot more interested in whether your parents have the money (ooh... did I really say that?).

Most don't, esp. not the Cal State schools (Cal Poly is a Cal State school). The UofCals might. And I don't remember any interviews when I started at Harvey Mudd, but that's a private school.

>Cal Poly Pomona

Cow Piley, huh? (I went to CP-P after a year at HMC, my dad went to CP-SLO).

Since I know you live in Fullerton, I take it from your list that your objective is to go as a commuter student rather than live on campus. There's an entirely different learning dynamic between living at home with parents and being on-campus. My experience was that I would have done much better living at home - fewer distractions, less opportunity to get into trouble, more "imposed" discipline. :grin:

i think the higher ed colleges need to do an interview. most colleges dont have to unless you try to apply for certain program.
living at homes saves costs and you can still go to parties and such unless your parents still watches you like a hawk.

well, i'm biased based on my background, but it seems to me that:

if you want a degree, you can go to a big school and commute. and party.

if you want an education, a small residential college (like HM or pomona, or maybe even stanford or berkely if you live there) is best. it the total immersion in the culture of knowledge, thoughtful discussions, sometimes late at night in the dorms, and being surrounded by people interested in learning, not just partying, that makes it.

plus, i think at 18 its time to get away from one's family and learn to be independent as much as possible.

anyway guys, good luck with the entrance process.

FWIW, for me, living on-campus was a disaster. HMC was a tough enough place studies-wise, but the small-school environment fostered a "frat boy" culture that had underclassmen in constant fear of being the butt of a hazing stunt should they cross paths with a senior. It was very intimidating and distracting - my favorite thing to do there was leave, and my grades showed it. Success there required developing a thick enough skin to tune-out the nonsense. The SOB who was the dean of students actually encouraged this crap. "Character-building" he called it... "Hey, Bob! You can take your "character-building" and shove it...!"

CP-P was a different problem. It was/is a commuter school. On-campus residents were a sort of second-class citizen because the sidewalks rolled-up after 6. Facilities and interactions you would normally expect access to at a residential college didn't exist. Studying done (or procrastinated) and lacking any other stimulation, we'd tend to find trouble to get into. As engineering students, our pranks had the campus police constantly running in little circles. :grin:

I'll disagree on the "party" aspect of living at home and commuting. Even "hands-off, 'you're an adult now'" parents are still a good regulator. Commuters tended not to build relationships at school and - at least from what I saw - were more interested in applying themselves in class. Obviously the situation depends on the school, but at the two I attended (ostensibly serious technical schools) there were too many opportunities for unsupervised rabblerousing if you lived on-campus.

YMMV.

I'll be going to CPP. And most likely I'll be moving into a studio or one bedroom apartment nearby that area. Any suggestions or guidance from CPP alumni will be helpful. Thank you.

>I'll be going to CPP.

Well then - congratulations are in order! Go Broncos!

It was too long ago for me to be of much help re. housing. When I first moved off-campus it was to a cheap apartment near Holt and San Antonio, and that's a really dicey area of town now. My second place was in Ontario off of Mountain - that was too far. The drive time and a lousy class schedule conspired to make me miss entirely too many classes.

Anyway, I'd forget Pomona - it was and is a pit. You might want to check around Diamond Bar. San Dimas is a quick shot over the hill on 57, but if you start getting into Glendora (or west into Covina or Hacienda Heights) you may as well just stay in Fullerton.

Last time I drove by the area I didn't notice much in the way of new housing around the school. CP-P truly is mostly a commuter school.

Mike do you happen to know the pricing of the apartments around there or you wouldn't know any sites where I could find prices would you?

Have no idea. It's been quite a number of years (let's just say >15 :grin: ) and the whole area has changed quite a bit since I left.

Have no idea. It's been quite a number of years (let's just say >15 :grin: ) and the whole area has changed quite a bit since I left.

haha. thanks anyways. I just tried looking up on the internet. not much help. guess i'll have to start driving around. the joy of driving in my Echo 3. YAY!!!

Hey ppl, is this still happening? I thought we were gonna meet in April...
(23rd works great for me)

Hello again,
I know that you have heard of our last meet to Hungry Valley OHV, last November. well, heres another

4x4 ELEMENT MEET!!!!!!
Overview:
I am planning on setting up a meet for all So. Cal element owners. For all of those who are interestered we will be going to El Mirage Dry Lake bed. There they have a 5-mile long (roughly) dry lake bed, Many light sand dunes and many hills. I have been there many times before and i kno that our elements will be able to handle it! A time and date will be det. later. The more people that attend the more fun this will be!!!! If you are interestered or you have any more questions please feel free to email me at
onimun123@hotmail.com
or post it here as a responce to this message.
Thanks and God Bless
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Who?: you anf anyone else thats interestered

What?: A fun offroad meet for all of us element owners

When:TBD

Where? El Mirage Dry Lake bed
Map click here (http://www.ca.blm.gov/images/barstow_images/elmiragemap.gif)

Why?:Why Not?

Directions: Map click here (http://www.ca.blm.gov/images/barstow_images/elmiragemap.gif)

A list of what to bring will be posted later, as long as we have enough people interestered/ signed up
Heres a great info link
http://www.ca.blm.gov/barstow/mirage.html

Thanks and God Bless


Members that Are attending ( So Far)

#1 Theelements
#2 Elemen-O-P ( Maybe)
#3 Biocube (maybe)
#4 Sheniferous ( Maybe)
#5 Topdog
#6 bbq_dan
#7 fotobox
#8 Fasterer
#9

*Bump* I'd be down to go to this...anybody have any info about it!?!? :?