{"id":6066,"date":"2018-10-23T21:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T04:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmcws.org\/blog\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2019-01-03T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T23:44:21","slug":"a-message-from-the-president-mt-hood-rally-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/a-message-from-the-president-mt-hood-rally-report\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the President: Mt. Hood Rally Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BobbieS-134x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BobbieS-134x150.jpg 134w, https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BobbieS.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><u>Rally Report Oct 4<sup>th<\/sup> thru Oct 8<sup>th<\/sup> Mt Hood Oregon<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Bobbie Schultz\u2019s special motorhome, I\u2019m writing this rally report in lieu of a human because no one volunteered.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very pretty, Bobbie my owner, is the new president so it was my job to get her to Mt Hood, Oregon for the Western States Rallly.&nbsp; I was very good and didn\u2019t lose any of my fluids along the way.<\/p>\n<p>They had some great tech sessions,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat were we thinking\u201d led by John Harper<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstalling, purchasing, etc Solar Charging Systems\u201d-Armand Minnie<\/p>\n<p>\u201c How to react to Fire in your GMC\u201d-Mike Burtch<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustom Vehicles Built on GMC Chassis\u201d-Randy Grubb<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCamshaft Timing\u201d-Jim Hupy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow to install an Electronic ignition on 4Kw or 6Kw Onan Generators\u201d-Gary Bovee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I lov it when you learn more ways to make me more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Kanomata brings a lot of great teachers to the rallies, he is my friend and has worked under my hood a lot over the years. Thank You Jim and Grace.<\/p>\n<p>Carol Minnie led us in some ladies sessions, we learned how to make Gift Jars, had coffee and croissants while us ladies discussed our travel.<\/p>\n<p>We took walks with Deo Trovao, and she led a talk about Viking River Cruises, I didn\u2019t attend because I don\u2019t do well on rivers, but they had lots of nice prizes.<\/p>\n<p>We had lots of good food, thanks to Dave de Graffenreid, Manny Trovao and family.&nbsp; We even made \u201cBread Pudding\u201d with Donna de Graffenreid, my favorite, yummie. Donna Ventura taught us how to make hardy Salads. I learned how to play Jokers &amp; Marbles, read a book for the Book Club called \u201cA Mountain Between Us\u201d ,tried Karaoke, I wanted to sing &nbsp;\u201cOn the Road Again\u201d but Corky said GMC\u2019S can\u2019t sing.<\/p>\n<p>Our new Western States Board was elected and is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Chapter President-Bobbie Schultz<\/p>\n<p>First Vice President Shirlee McArthur<\/p>\n<p>FMCA National Director-Sharon Work<\/p>\n<p>2<sup>nd<\/sup> FMCA Representative Mannie Trovao<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer- Dave de Graffenreid<\/p>\n<p>Secretary- Donna Ventura<\/p>\n<p>Webmaster- Armand Minnie<\/p>\n<p>Newsletter Editor, Bobbie Schultz, formatted by Jimmy Oligney<\/p>\n<p>We also had an Executive Board meeting &amp; a General Membership Meeting and Election,&nbsp; as previously stated. I don\u2019t find the meetings interesting but what ever it takes so we can keep having rallies and I can see my friends, I have a special GMC friend in the Cascaders who lives in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>We went camping on our way home, looking for rally spots for 2020, after being in a few campgrounds where people were fawning over me and telling me how they always wanted to own a GMC and they remembered them from the 70\u2019s.&nbsp; I\u2019m really trying not to get a big head and blow a head casket.<\/p>\n<p>So now I\u2019m going to have a long winters nap. so I will be all rested for our April rally in San Diego, See you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rally Report Oct 4th thru Oct 8th Mt Hood Oregon I\u2019m Bobbie Schultz\u2019s special motorhome, I\u2019m writing this rally report in lieu of a human because no one volunteered. I\u2019m very pretty, Bobbie my owner, is the new president so it was my job to get her to Mt Hood, Oregon for the Western States <a href='https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/a-message-from-the-president-mt-hood-rally-report\/' class='excerpt-more'>[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rally-reports","category-presidentsreport","category-4-id","category-43-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}