2015/50th Roadster Roundup, Pismo Beach
This was the big one, and San Jose Roadsters took us back to Pismo Beach, the site of the very first RR, 50 years ago and believe it or not, there were two members there that have attending all fifty RRs.   President Tom brought fifteen members of the California Roadsters to the 50^th RR, who didn’t need an excuse to cruise back to the Central Coast.  Members included: Tom, Max, Mark, Phill, Keith, Bernie and his friend Jack Linden from Prescott, AZ (who has since out an application as an associate member), Jerry and Judy, Chuck and Penny, Dick and Barbara, Jon and Midge, Gary and Lisa, Chet and Ruby, Paul and Marilyn, Dennis and Janice, Duane and Suzanne and applicant Chris and Marsha. 

On Thursday morning, we did our standard two prong assault on the Central CoastOn Thursday morning, we did our standard two prong assault on the Central Coast, with Tom leading Mark, with the southern group leaving from Starbucks, Costa Mesa and the northern group leaving from Coco's, Brea.  We decided to leave a little later (10 AM) than prior years to try and avoid the traffic jam on the South Bay curve, but it didn't work. The larger northern group went straight to Prado Burger for lunch, while the southern group pulled in a little later due to traffic and some taking the more direct 101 Freeway, while the majority opped for the more scenic Highway 1.  After lunch, we gassed up and headed to the host hotel in Pismo Beach.

Friday morning we planned a club cruise to the Hearst Castle, with Dennis setting up a behind the scenes, extended tour, including being able to drive our roadsters to a reserved parking area behind the castle. The tour last all of three hours seeing the castle from its basement to top of the twin towers, and our docent tour guide was the best.  After the tour, we headed to Cambria for lunch at the Indigo Moon Cafe on Main Street, and most checked out the shopping after and/or headed back to the hotel, with check-in for the RR, and get ready for nice buffet dinner on the grassy bluff overlooking the Pacific, with the added bonus of a little whale watching.

The Saturday morning's run through the rolling hillside north of Pismo, ended up at the La Vino Rose Winery for a nice buffet lunch. This is a huge facility, with intregrated open air concert area used on weekends.  It is located along Highway 46, Paso Robles, adjacent to the Robert Hall Winery, visited on a prior year's run.

The San Jose Boys really put a lot of effort into planning and execution of a memorable RR, including a very nice, banquet dinner on Saturday night with a couple bottles of wine on each table and a band for dancing.  Joe Cordosa and another gentlemen, whose name I didn't get, but went to high school back in the dark ages with Joe, were honored as being the only two guys in attendance that have  attended all 50 RR's.

Next year will be Valley Roadster's turn to host the 51^st RR and they always do a bang up job, well except for Clovis, so put the second weekend of September, 2016 on your calendar now.  This is the one roadster event annually that we always should attend as a club and show our appreciation to BAR for the invitation.