We are excited to announce our first annual Element Owners Club national meet, The Big E-vent, to be held July 15-17 in the Columbus, Ohio area. Several of you have asked us: why meet in Columbus? That's an easy answer - simply because this year our goal was to find a way to visit Honda's East Liberty auto plant or, as some of you have called it, "return to the mothership". We are lucky to have been invited to visit the facility this year and we are also fortunate that a city like Columbus sits where it does and has so much to do within a minimal drive. We have some fun events planned and we'll have prizes and goodies to give away at the meet as well! What are those events? Well, you can find detailed information on all of the pages linked up top and at the bottom of the page, but here are a few of the highlights:

• *100 of us will go out to Honda's East Liberty auto plant on Friday
• Dinner and fun at Quaker Steak & Lube on Friday night
• Picnic and fun at Hocking Hills State Park on Saturday
• Open night for dinner, drinks and fun with your friends on Saturday night

I hope that you can attend this exciting event and we look forward to seeing all of you there! Let's make our first national meet a lot of fun and one to remember!

REGISTER NOW!! REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE MAY 31st, 2005!!!

I'd like to personally thank Larry (aka spdrcr5), Luke (aka Sier) and Chad (aka Thadd) for their commitment to making this meet (and this set of web pages for the meet) a big success. Without their help, there is no way that I could have pulled this thing off by myself. I'd also like to thank our many members in the Columbus area who have either helped us already or who have offered to help in the coming months to make this meet a success. Plain and simple...I can't wait!