[GOT_MPG]

Is this Heaven? No, it's a smart car rally in Iowa! Again!

The planning stage has started with the location announced at the smart Car Nationals in Deadwood, though the date has changed.

The 2017 Midwest smart Rally will be held on June 22-25 in Iowa’s oldest city of Dubuque, the “Masterpiece on the Mississippi.”

The host motel is the Holiday Inn located in downtown Dubuque. Additional lodging information will be posted later.

Planned events include a scenic cruise on the Great River Road, a tour of the National Mississippi River Museum, a visit to Antique Archeology and the Field of Dreams, sightseeing in Galena, and a riverboat dinner cruise.

Here is a tentative schedule:
Thursday afternoon meet and greet
Thursday evening dinner
Friday scenic drive on the Great River Road with stops at Antique Archeology and Galena, Illinois
Friday evening dinner
Saturday morning tour of the National Mississippi River Museum
Saturday afternoon scenic drive to the Field of Dreams
Saturday evening riverboat dinner cruise
Sunday brunch (optional)

Other attractions include the Fenelon Place Elevator and Lock and Dam #11 on the Mississippi River. For more information on Dubuque, check out the Dubuque Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Registration will start early 2017. Please post on the Participation Poll thread if you plan on attending.

See you in Dubuque!

Drive smart

 

[jwight]

A place in Antique Archeology is appropriate for most of the participants!

 

[jimvw57]

sounds like a good time!!

 

[jwight]

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g37853-Dubuque_Iowa-Vacations.html

 

[ddick]

Sounds like a fun rally. We can't wait!! Love the riverboat dinner cruise!'n

 

[mrbadexample]

A place in Antique Archeology is appropriate for most of the participants!

Isn't that the home base of "The Pickers"?

I feel 10 years older after my surgery last month, 3 weeks in the hospital is hell!

 

[GOT_MPG]

"The Pickers" rarely show up at the stores except to tape an episode of their program. Mike Wolfe lives near Nashville, so he spends more time at the Nashville store than here in Iowa.

I'm working out the logistics of visiting the Iowa store during the rally. There is limited parking and the store is not that big. I would like to meet "The Pickers" when we are there. We'll see.

Drive smart

 

[jwight]

Need to get there early. Barry and I stopped by a couple of years ago and there was already a crowd half an hour before it opened.

 

[DrKillerBee]

Dubuque is a city with fond memories and we look forward to the event.

 

[TomLeeM]

It seems like a neat city. Dubuqeu Iowa.

Travel Dubuque
Explore Dubuque.
:nerd:

 

[DaleDawnGruis]

Northeast Iowa RC&D | - Glaciers missed this sliver of NE Iowa called the Driftless Area, with incredible topograpy not found anywhere else in Iowa, Wisconsi.n and Minnesota! Tremendous views.

 

[amosd70]

Howdy all! Do not spend much time on SCOA anymore and sure miss my smart. I missed the Nationals this year but I do plan on attending the 2017 Mid West Rally

 

[Miss Mercedes]

Oh count me in with this one. After a mostly horrible year for me, I need to get back on my rallies!

 

[jimvw57]

Hope to have my car back together in time!!

 

[Arthur Lattanzi]

I am 98.35% sure I will be attending!

 

[DrKillerBee]

Sadly Jan and I will not make this one. Ironically we chose a trip to Alaska at that time so as NOT miss the Midwest Rally which has always in our smart time of ownership been at the beginning of June. We can't change our trip schedule as others in our Miata club are going with us.
We loved visiting Dubuque seeing the Field of Dreams, the Greyhound Track, the newly remodeled downtown Hotel Julien, and a fantastic fireworks display on July the third at Eagle Park overlooking the Mississippi which wasn't muddy that far north. You will have a fun time on the Rally and we will miss seeing everyone.

 

[jetfuel]

:crying:
:crying:

 

[DrSmartjh]

I am especially looking forward to meeting all of you. My first 40 years spent in Minneapolis, but most recently on the Left Coast. I have been deeply involved in the smart saga since 2000 and have taken the founder of the UK smart club to lunch & visited Hambach & smartville. My favorite memory of smart motoring is tooling on the motorway near Lille at max velocity being passed by the TGV on the tack parallel to the roadway and going about 230 mph. Planned schedule looks like one to create many very fond memories.

 

[jwight]

Welcome to SCoA!

 

[jkjahobbs]

We plan to be in Dubuque for the rally. I love Dubuque and that area. So much to see and do.

Last time I was in Dubuque I ended up spending a night in Mercy Medical Center, that was on the way home from Outsmarting the Dragon last August. I do not plan a repeat of that visit.