kayl

That's great. Where was this? It looks like a tank tour rather than a bunch of customers just milling about. Did you do this as a club expedition?

Yes, it was the annual Wisconsin Reef Society Bus trip - we go on a tour bus to different LFS in the Illinois/WI area

The shops have different specials/events/what not and we have a raffle on the bus between stops.

It was a great trip, I tended to focus more on photos of the tanks than photos of the shops.

How far did you travel? How many people were on the bus? Did you guys have food and drink on the bus, provided by the club? Was there anything special about that day, like a raffle? I love the idea.

I have no clue how far we went total, we left around 8am and got back around 7:30ish pm. We had 35 peoples go, no food and drink provided, but there was plenty to go around between the members.

We had a large raffle with the grand prizes being a MP10wES, BioCube 29 HQI w/ Stand, AirWaterIce Mighty Mite RO/DI, and a Bali Sun Series metal halide pendant w/ LED actinics. All in all, it was a great time!

How big is the area you had to travel? If our club tried to organize this, there would be people that had to drive a long way to meet up with the group at the bus' pick up spot. And then the drive back. Our metroplex is pretty huge. It takes 1.5 hours roughly to drive diagonally from west Fort Worth to the Plano area, and even putting the bus in the middle may not be appealing to those at those extreme areas.

Maybe a bus in Fort Worth to tour the Dallas stores would be fun, and then a bus in Dallas to tour the Fort Worth side... hmmm

This is a great idea for other clubs to pick up on. Wonder how much it costs to rent a bus, and how many members would need to go to make the rental cost effective.

thats an amazing trip!!!
and those are some amazing LFS!!!

i want to be in your local area just to attend that tour!!

Marc gets 200 points for his round of twenty questions!

200! Sweet, that's more than I expected.