August 7th, 2010

Friends,

The Blue Ridge Boxster Summit started in 1999 in the Asheville area until moving to Blowing Rock two years later. The Green Park Inn offered up quite a "unique" experience the third year, and we've enjoyed the Meadowbrook Inn being our home base for the past nine years.

We strive to ensure that each event has something new while keeping in place that which has worked well in the past. We try to come up with new roads and places for the Fun Runs and new opportunities like Eagles Nest this year, while being mindful that just making sure you have a chance to rekindle old friendships and make new ones is at the heart of it all.

In our efforts to bring you new opportunities while remaining true to the core experience, we are pleased to announce to the entire BRBS community:

The Blue Ridge Boxster Summit is moving!

The Switzerland Inn in Little Switzerland, NC will be home for BRBS 13 to be held June 2-5, 2011. We're also planning an early day event, so be sure to also block out the 1st.

Why move? It's time for a change. Even though those of you who may only recently have joined us haven't experienced all the different roads we've explored in the past ten years in the Boone/Blowing Rock area, those who have been coming for years deserve a whole new section of the Parkway to explore. Little Switzerland offers that.

The participants in BRBS 2010 were given a taste of Little Switzerland during the recent Fun Run, and many drove Diamondback, described as "North Carolina's last alternate route" with more than 190 steep, climbing curves in just 12 miles loaded with switchbacks looping almost 360-degrees. The area gives us many more new roads to explore and places to see. And the Switzerland Inn fits us perfectly as we sought to get more people under one roof (well, there are many different roofs at the Inn!) and can accommodate nearly all of us with a wide range of rooming choices and rates in a mountain lodge setting. Plus, there's an expansive lawn overlooking the beautiful Smokies for the "Boxster Shine and Show" and Pedro's Garage, and a bar reminiscent of the Green Park Inn's bar!

Switzerland Inn offers many different types of rooms to meet each person's budget. There's even an 8 bedroom lodge where the individual rooms can be booked for only $69 a night for those wanting just a bed and a bathroom!

Go to www.switzerlandinn.com to learn more about the mountain inn and its room options, and then call 800-654-4026 or 828-765-2153 to make your reservation. We've negotiated room rates at $15 off the low season published nightly rates for each room, except for the $69 rate for the "motorcycle lodge" rooms which will remain at that rate. There's an additional $15 off per night for any night(s) before Thursday afternoon or after Saturday night. For example, if you come in Wednesday, your rate for that evening would be $30 off the low season published nightly rate.

To learn more about Diamondback, go to www.diamondbacknc.com where you can even reserve a motorcycle for next year's event!

If you're planning to come to BRBS 2011, please pre-register now at www.brbs.org. And watch the BRBS website for more details throughout the year.

Hope to see you next year!

Karl and Ron