Correction: Wind Mill Coffee run will be on Saturday, June 12, 2021.

A sign that spring has arrived is the running of CVR’s first Coffee Run of the year. The Bear Mountain Run had a great showing with 67 members participating in 55 cars. It was such a great turnout that the group was divided up into two groups to make it more manageable to lead the groups. As always, it was a great opportunity for members to socialize and drive together on some great local Porsche roads. Thank you to James Ball for organizing the event and to Andrew Anello for volunteering to lead the second group.

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.

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RidewithGPS NAVIGATION PHONE APP

Through the generosity of Hagerty Insurance a RidewithGPS navigation app club account is available to all CVR members.

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.

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Here are the Coffee Runs that are on the calendar for 2021:

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021	Early Bird – Guilford to Old Lyme	Rich Adua
Sunday, May 9, 2021	ZigZag	James Ball
Sunday, May 23, 2021	Early Bird – Glastonbury to East Windsor	Rich Adua
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
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

At least for the start of the CVR Coffee Run season, we will follow the process we used last year.

Participants need to bring:

1. Face mask (required)
2. Other personal protective equipment, particularly hand sanitizer and gloves
3. A pen for signing the waiver (to minimize contact of items between participants, there will be one waiver per car. )

Please read the complete description of the process – click here

Thank you in advance for doing your part in helping us put on safe events.