Several club members will be heading to South Dakota!  Ed Bickham of our club spoke at the February business meeting discussing this event.  The Black Hills Corvette Club (BHCC) hosts an annual event which is a drive across South Dakota!  The event starts on the east side of South Dakota in Souix Falls on Wednesday with events all day from 9:00AM-10:00PM, Thursday is the drivers meeting at 7:30AM.  The caravan starts at 8:00AM to begin the 390-mile drive across the state to Spearfish on the west side of South Dakota.  Arriving around 2:00PM there is hotel registration at the Holiday Inn until 5:00PM and then festivities at the hotel continue through 9:00PM.  On Friday, there are guided and self-guided tours, a poker run, auto cross, a mystery brunch run, with vendors all day.  The evening has a “Vette Street USA” in downtown Spearfish with a car show, entertainment, and plenty of food and drink. Then on Saturday, more guided and self-guided tours, a poker run, a dyno challenge, 70’s Corvette showcase with lunch, vendors all day, culminating with an evening awards banquet and farewell party.  A link describing this is here.  Also Motor Trend has a webpage for this event when it was held in 2018 including a video and photos.  The webpage is here. Whew!

If interested, this link also has their registration and accommodations for both in Souix Falls and Spearfish.  He’s been planning the hotel arrangements prior to this event to get us from here in Southeast Virgina to Souix Falls.  There is some urgency here since the Holiday Inn in Spearfish is expected to sell out by the end of February.  You would need to book this early and hope they still have rooms.  A link to the Holiday Inn’s contract for the stay during this event in Spearfish is here.  The contract identifies the stay is not refundable after March 1^st when they charge for the first night of the stay.

Overall, with the drive to Souix Falls and then the drive back from Spearfish after the event it’s a 9 or more days round trip from here in Southeast Virginia.  Ed is our lead for this event.  For more information contact him at 757-434-3046.