Note: Wind Mill Coffee run will be on Saturday, June 12, 2021.
May was a busy month for CVR with many activities ramping up including Driving Tours. We had three Coffee Runs in May, two by Rich Adua and one by James Ball. Thank you to the both of them for all the work they do for the benefit of our members.
Thank you to Lance Johnson for the images below. Note: The car with the wooden wheels is not a Porsche prototype in camouflage or is it……
We have a new Coffee Run being put together by James Ball scheduled for August 7th. Details will be on the CVR website calendar shortly. The run will originate at the Black Bridge Motors establishment in Norwalk.
Photo by Lance Johnson 
Photo by Lance Johnson 
Photo by Lance Johnson 
Photo by Lance Johnson
On each Coffee Run there are a couple of volunteering opportunities in support of the PCA Driving Tour Standards:
Sweeper: Be the last car in the line and assist any participants who may encounter car or health difficulties, advising the tour/group leader if vehicles became separated from the group.
Observer’s Report: Submit the PCA Observer’s Report – it takes about 10 minutes to fill out the form on the PCA website. Instructions will be provided.
Please contact the Coffee Run lead if you would like to volunteer.
We will again this year have a form to register for each Coffee Run but instead of using Constant Contact we will be using a form that will be located in the Challenge Event Calendar for each Coffee Run. The registration form goes live at 7 pm on the Tuesday prior to the Coffee Run.
RidewithGPS NAVIGATION PHONE APP
Through the generosity of Hagerty Insurance a RidewithGPS navigation app club account is available to all CVR members.
It is highly recommended that everyone participating in a driving tour get the app and access to the CVR club account.
The RidewithGPS app provides turn by turn directions during the Coffee Run on your smart phone. The details on how to set up the app can be found here – click here.
Important Note(s):
Please complete all the setup steps below prior to the Coffee Run or Tour that will be using the app (it will take a few days to get through the membership approval process). It will not be possible to set it up the morning of the event. Routes will typically be available for downloading from a few days prior to the event until the day of the event.
Here are the Coffee Runs that are on the calendar for 2021:
| Saturday, June 12, 2021 | Wind Mill | James Ball |
| Sunday, June 27, 2021 | Kringle Candle | John Collins & Steve Tougias |
| Sunday, June 27, 2021 | Early Bird – Old Saybrook to East Lyme … The Long Way | Rich Adua |
| Sunday, July 18, 2021 | West Chester Loop | James Ball |
| Sunday, July 25, 2021 | Early Bird – Colchester to Norwich | Rich Adua |
| Sunday, August 1, 2021 | TBD | John Collins & Steve Tougias |
| Sunday, August 7, 2021 | Black Bridge | James Ball |
| Saturday, August 14, 2021 | Water Wheel | James Ball |
| Sunday, August 29, 2021 | Early Bird – Plainfield to Vanilla Bean | Rich Adua |
| Saturday, September 25, 2021 | Just Because | James Ball |
| Sunday, September 26, 2021 | Early Bird – Farmington to Middlebury | Rich Adua |
| Saturday, October 2 2021 | Kent Falls | James Ball |
| Sunday, October 31, 2021 | Early Bird – Mystic to Plainfield, CT (aka Scituate Reservoir Coffee Run) | Rich Adua |
PCA DRIVING TOUR STANDARD BRIEFING
PCA has developed standards for driving tours that have to be followed by all of the PCA regions. Please review the standards we follow – click here
COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS
We will follow the COVID-19 requirements for the states that we will travel through on our driving tours.
Thank you in advance for doing your part in helping us put on safe events.
The “coffee runs” are great fun, thank you to all the folks that put together these entertaining drives. It’s unfortunate that John & Steve’s Kringle Candle run is on the same day as Rich’s Old Saybrook to East Lyme run. I would have liked to do both of them…