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27 Mar 2013
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Good News Everybody
Today I went for a ride over Mount Mee to drop in to the Pitstop Cafe to invite them to become more involved this year; they were closed.
Anyhow, not to worry, I dropped into the Dayboro Showgrounds and Di from the Showgrounds committee was there as well as the new caretakers and we had a good chat about this year. Issues covered:
1. John, the caretaker of the last two year decided he wanted to fully retire and so left earlier this year. Currently the caretakers are Kevin and Diane and their two dogs. They are enthusiastic motorbike riders and members of Ulysses. This solves a few problems; one of which was the amenities. I am certain that Kevin and Diane will be sure to ensure everything is cleaned and the extra showers are opened up.
2. There is a new building being installed in the location directly opposite the pavilion. This reduces the number of powered tent sites; this should not be a problem as there are plenty of power points inside the pavilion to recharge phones, laptops etc. If the new building is finished we should be able to use it for additional talks, storage etc.
3. The oval IS available this year for rider training. The schedule suits and the ground is recovering just fine from problems of earlier last year. So now we only need to find a volunteer ( or team of volunteers ) to undertake the training.
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1 Apr 2013
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More rides - a little further away
Hi guys,
Today I went for a ride with some relatives and we cam across a few different tourist drives:
Scenic Rim Regional Council - Location and maps
Tourist Drives - Southern Downs Regional Council
Some of these I've done in the past without realizing I was on a tourist drive. Some I've yet to do
Be aware that this region is about 1.5 hours minimum from Dayboro but worth a look if you have time whilst travelling up or heading home if you are coming from down south.
Regards,
Shane
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10 Apr 2013
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More rides - Mount Mee forest trail and drive/ride
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6 May 2013
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Ferris Wheels Motorcycle Safaris
Just to let you know that Mike Ferris from Ferris Wheels ( http://www.ferriswheels.com.au/ ) has confirmed that he will be there and giving a "Tricks of the trade" talk. The line-up will be the best we have ever had.
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10 Jun 2013
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Volunteers get together 7 July 2013
Just a note on the Horizons Unlimited Travellers Meeting; Dayboro, 26-28 Sep 2013
Hi everyone.
We need to get together any/all volunteers for a chat and so I'm hopeful that everyone interested in helping out can meet at the Dayboro Showgrounds at 12
:00; High Noon; on Sunday 7 July 2013. We'll go over the layout as the grounds have changed a bit, the draft schedule and what we need to sort out between then at the meeting. Afterwards we will ride up to the Pit Stop Cafe or if they are full, we'll go on to one of the other cafes. If you can let me know beforehand if you are coming that would be good, but not essential. Hope to see lots of you there.
Thanks, Shane.
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1 Jul 2013
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Photos from Mike and Denise Ferris from Ferris Wheels. Mike is one ouf our guest presenters this year.
 
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1 Jul 2013
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Hi everyone.
Just a reminder that we need to get together any/all volunteers for a chat and so I'm hopeful that everyone interested in helping out can meet at the Dayboro Showgrounds at 12
:00; High Noon; on Sunday 7 July 2013. We'll go over the layout as the grounds have changed a bit, the draft schedule and what we need to sort out between then at the meeting. Afterwards we will ride up to the Pit Stop Cafe or if they are full, we'll go on to one of the other cafes. If you can let me know beforehand if you are coming that would be good, but not essential. Hope to see lots of you there.
Thanks,
Shane
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3 Jul 2013
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Tentspace on ADVRIDER.COM
Hi everyone,
Just thought I'ld post up somethong about the "Tentspace" thread on advrider.com.
The links associated with this thread are:
Tent Space Sign-Up Thread - Page 64 - ADVrider
Tent Space Map - Page 6 - ADVrider
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http:...339844&t=m&z=3
Or a Google Search: http://tentspace.ridetoeat.com/artents.kmz
I'm thinking that with three HU meetings in Australia this year, this may be an excellent resource for those travelling as well as an opportunity for people who want to "give back". I'm also thinking that I may well use this a fair bit next year when I travel down to the Adventure Travel Film Festival again ( work and study permitting ).
I'll post onto the relevant HUBB sections for the other HU meetings as well.
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Shane
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7 Jul 2013
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Today's HU planning meeting for Dayboro 2013
Hi everyone,
Thanks to all those who attended today, it was a great turn out and hopefully a demonstration that Horizons is getting some traction and gaining a critical mass in the area.
If there was anyone who turned up at the showgrounds, only to find that the Dayboro Show was on, and we missed you, I apologize for the hassle. We managed to pick up everybody I hope and if we missed you, I'm very sorry. I'll post this email up on the HU Community messages for Brisbane and Toowoomba as well, just to make sure we get the message out. So some of you will get duplicate emails; sorry about that but this way we make sure we avoid missing anybody and so I ask for your patience.
The topics we covered today include:
Presenter for First Aid Session:I've been unsuccessful in sourcing a presenter and asked if anyone had a possible presenter in mind. Carien has a friend who is a chiropractor and rides and will approach. However any other ideas will be appreciated. I may have another potential that I need to approach as well.
Riding Skills Session:Derek volunteered to run a ridings skills session. We'll need a team to do this safely and so anyone interested in helping out should let us know.
Registration Desk:Registration Desk will be open from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM on Thursday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Friday and 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Saturday. If anyone turns up after 6:00 PM on Thursday or Friday, they just register on the next day. If anyone turns up after 6:00 PM on Saturday, well, that will be a problem as there will only be dinner, the raffle, a short presentation and Richard's presentation to go.
We need to have a team of volunteers to register people in, give the attendees their welcome bag, T-Shirts if they ordered ( or if they are presenters ) check off the registration spreadsheet and take in cash. We will have receipts books for everything. The idea is to ensure that no-one does more than two hours each.
There will be up to 150 welcome bags to have brochures stuffed inside them and we should try to get these done on Thursday morning.
One or two people need to be in charge of watching the registration spreadsheet and ensuring that we have the right numbers for Saturday dinner and Sunday breakfast.
Presenters:Just to advise ahead of time that presenters get free entry and a T-shirt. The ethos of HU is all about sharing information and support and the low prices reflect that. Unfortunately there is no budget to pay for presenters or pay for their dinners, breakfast, accommodation or camping.
Toilets:
We may have to make a roster for cleaning the toilets on Friday and Saturday night.
I will check with the caretakers to ensure that there is adequate lighting.
Future Dates:We agreed that the last weekend in September seems to be a good date and will set that for 2014. Will we consider alternative venues though as riders like to have a bit of variety. We'll seek a bit more feedback on current and alternate venues, Such as Oakey, Kenilworth etc.
Communication:
As part of the registration process, we will have feedback forms. Some of the questions we look at will be whether attendees prefer to have the venue moved about and if so, suggestions and thoughts.
To let people know ahead of time what is happening, we will develop this email list as well as use the HUBB forum.
Everyone is encouraged to post entries on different forums to help spread the word.
Attached is a PDF A4 flyer that can be distributed to bike shops etc to help further spread the word and also possibly ask them if they would like to be involved. If a bike shop or other possible vendor would like to attend, we do not charge them for the privilege; that's not part of the one-for-all and all-for-one ethos of Horizons. We do ask that they donate something towards the charity raffle; nothing too expensive. It would be nice to see a fully kitted KLR, V-Strom, Tenere displayed by a local shop though. It would be GREAT to have a GPS shop represented and they could even do a GPS workshop.
We discussed ADVRIDER.COM a little bit and raised the use of the "tentspace" thread as well as finding the ADVRIDER - Australia section.
Diane and Haydn Durnell were not able to make it up today but Diane has offered to create a new poster for this year as well as for 2014. I'll send some photos to Diane and she start straight away but don't hold off approaching bike stores etc for the newer poster.
The direct link to the HUBB thread for this meeting is: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hubb/hu-travellers-meetings-australia/10th-anniversary-hu-meetings-australia-66392
Friday night dinner:
At this point I can not yet confirm if that will be at the bowls club or the footy club. If it is at the bowls club, we will need a volunteer to make up some nice directions to get there and more importantly, to get back.
Road Signs:We have some directional road signs for the three main roads into Dayboro and I'll put them up on the Wednesday.
Grant and Susan:Just about everyone has offers of help for camping gear, accommodation, pickup from airport etc for Grant and Susan. Gordon Matheson is the central coordinator for this ( gordon.matheson@cua.com.au ).
Catered lunch om Friday and / or Saturday.Stuart suggested that we try to get a service club such as Lions or Rotary to do a catered lunch or BBQ for either Friday, Saturday or both. Excellent idea and Stuart and Carien will look into this.
Bike lift / stand:Marcos suggested we have a bike lift or stand there to raise a bike for display when its used during a talk; great idea. I'm working on getting a free bike lift for my workshop; its a bit of a long shot and if it comes off we can use that. If it doesn't, Marcus will bring out a nice box trailer that we can raise a bike onto.
PA System:I will book our usual one from Perry's hire, but with the optional second speaker. Nonetheless all speakers will be reminded to speak slowly and clearly.
Steve West will be coming up from Sydney on his Honda VT250 and will be in charge of IT. I'm sure though if one other person volunteered to help Steve that will be good.
Powered Sites:There are now very few powered sites available. I'll check to see exactly how many and if they can be pre-booked. Nonetheless, the pavilion building has plenty of 240v outlets inside and outside to recharge phones, laptops, iPads etc.
The Pavilion:The Pavilion building is a large shed, about 20 metres by 80 metres. At the end that we will be having the presentations there is a small bar area with a glass-fronted fridge. We will use this for tea and coffee and people are welcome to use the fridge. At the other end is a full commercial kitchen and people can use this as well. Not mentioned but a reminder to bring your own mug for tea and coffee.
The Pavilion has its own full complement of tables and chairs. We do need to set them up on Thursday and then pack them up again on Sunday as well as a clean up as well.
That's all I can think off for now. If I've missed anything, feel free to do a "Reply all" email
Thanks
Shane
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19 Jul 2013
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Australian Road Rider Magazine Travel Special
Hi everyone,
Latest issue of Australian Road Rider is their Annual Travel Special and Horizons Unlimited gets a guernsey. A 10 page spread with a focus on Martin Williams, Jan and Paul Dwyer and Haydn and Diane Durnell. If you have friends thinking about coming but not sure, this is an excellent conversation starter.
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Shane
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26 Jul 2013
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I'm thinking about flying up for this one and borrowing a scooter off a mate...
does anyone who is already going have a spare tent and other camping gear so I don't have to cart it all on the plane from Sydney?
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29 Jul 2013
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Hi Jax,
I've got one spare tent and a spare sleeping bag if that is any help.
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30 Jul 2013
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Excellent Shane thanks - that helps a lot!
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Hi Shane
Sorry for posting this in the thread...I'm not allowed to PM yet...not enough posts apparently.
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Originally Posted by shanekfalcon
Steve West will be coming up from Sydney on his Honda VT250 and will be in charge of IT. I'm sure though if one other person volunteered to help Steve that will be good.
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You still need another pair of hands to help out with this?
Cheers
John
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5 Aug 2013
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Hi John.
Absolutely. I'll send you Stephen's contact details in the next few days and you can then liase direct. I think having two people on IT will be a great boon. Would you be AOK to include looking after the PA system and data projectors as well? It sort of fits in together. The reason I ask is that we'll go through these on Thursday afternoon to make sure that you are not thrown into the deep end.
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Hi Shane
Sorry for posting this in the thread...I'm not allowed to PM yet...not enough posts apparently.
You still need another pair of hands to help out with this?
Cheers
John
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