I didn't mean to indicate that going to Chateau Elan costs a good bit of money. It's a great place for a GTG with lunch at one of the hotel's eateries. There's an authentic Irish Pub on site, with reasonable prices for good food (& drink, of course). And I mean authentic!

Don Panoz had this pub disassembled in Great Britain, shipped to Chateau Elan and then put it back together here. Now that's having more money than you know what to do with it!

So Chateau Elan is about an 80 minute drive from Upstate SC and less than an hour from Atlanta. Could be a reasonable choice for us to meet , greet & eat!

And then there's the Petit Le Mans SEP 29-OCT 2 at Road Atlanta (Panoz owns that track also). We could plan a GTG on one of the weekend race days. Car & Driver just rated Road Atlanta one of the best road courses in USA.

But the imporatnt thing is for us to just GTG. Why back in the days of owning Merkur XR4Ti's, a group of us met at the Dave & Buster's just off I-85S on the north side of Atlanta. Back parking lot was practically vacant and we had a blast looking over our cars & 'talking shop'. Even that works for me!