Posts by UMN 50

On Thursday, the 1st August, we had 12 cars take part on the 2nd ICR to Spencerville this season. The weather was sunny, hot, and humid the perfect ingredients for Ice Cream. We all made our way to the Village Pantry to get our much-needed ice cream fix plus to pick up delicious Cinnamon Buns. […]

As always, the most difficult task in planning a tour was managing the weather gods. The Tour was planned for Saturday 10 August with Sunday 11 August as a backup. Initially, the 10th looked good with the 11th pretty iffy. Then a ‘Special Weather Statement’ began to appear for Thursday evening and all-day Friday with […]

Twenty-two Miatas and 40 souls meet at the Loblaws in Bells Corners. This was a difficult trek for some as they had to navigate around the Hwy 417 being closed between Metcalfe and Carling. Nevertheless, all made it on time. After all the formalities and chit chat both groups left on time meandering our way […]

Six cars from UMN meet at the Tim Hortons in Kemptville. The cars owners were Barry Rowsome, Aydin Suatac, Josette Vermette, David Feldman and his nephew, Pierre Blanchet, and myself. We took a mostly direct route to Westport passing through Merrickville, Jasper, New Bliss to name a few. We were greeted by the Westport Car […]

The Westport Car Show had an early start for me – ha ha. We started out from Kemptville Timmy’s. This was a good plan being able to grab a coffee before we left for the rain or shine event. Luckily it was perfect weather for a show.After our drivers meeting we were on the road […]

With 11 cars we started from the Hampton Hotel. Once we got out of the city our tour became very relaxing. We had a few twisties including a nice drive on the Kilmarnock Road passing the Kilmarnock apple orchard. Then onto county road 17 over Old Slys Bridge through Smiths Falls to Abbott Street where […]

The biggest challenge in scheduling this tour was predicting accurate weather conditions. All of last week the predictions were like a seesaw and only on Sunday did it become clearer that the best of weather was going to be Tuesday, the original planned date. Last week, I looked at every option from Tuesday to Friday […]

Although the day started with low clouds, the mist soon burned off and we were greeted with fluffy clouds, blue skies, and bright sunshine. 32 Miatas left Ottawa in 3 groups for the 2024 edition of the Upper Canada Playhouse Tour. Wendy Cull was the inspiration behind this tour, with her enthusiasm in helping us […]

The plan, as normal, was for a Wed 3 July ICR. The weather gods played loose and fast requiring a decision to defer to Thurs 4 July which turned out to be the right decision as late afternoon of the 3rd the skies opened and rain was moderate from late afternoon onwards. 4 July offered […]

It was a great outing with 16 cars split into two groups. The weather was great, cloudy with sun, and even a bit of a sprinkle mixed in for good measure. Group two departed first with brand new leads, Joe and José Da Ponté, who volunteered, and were then baptized by fire as they had […]