The barbecue was almost as good as the MINI company last Saturday at the EIM Meet-n-Eat at Jimmy Jack’s Rib Shack in Iowa City. We followed our excellent lunch with a spirited drive on some of the best roads in and around Coralville Lake, along with a stop for photos below the spillway. We capped […]
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Springtime Indiana
—————— “Here across the miles we ramble…” intones singer/songwriter Sandra McCracken in the first verse of her 2001 ballad Springtime Indiana, a fitting recapitulation of another superb EIM multi-day excursion (now a traditional mid-May outing) to French Lick, Indiana for the EIM Hoosier Hoodang. This was the first ever trip for our MINI group to […]
Southern Skirmish
What a fantastic day for our first motoring event of 2017! Thanks to everyone who joined us last Saturday for the 10th EIM Border Skirmish Drive, an event that has evolved into an annual April tradition and our first organized drive of the calendar year. This year’s drive emphasized our borders to the south (MO) […]
MINI Zeppelins
Thanks to all of the EIM faithful who joined us last Saturday in Cedar Rapids for the Zig-Zag to Zeppelins, our traditional Rite of Spring Meet-n-Eat held this year for the first time at Zeppelins Bar and Grill. The biting northwesterly winds curtailed our outdoor loitering just a bit, but the dry roads and eventual […]
Road Salt, Gator Toes, and a Cadillac 500
A fine and fun-loving group of area MINIacs gathered together in Davenport yesterday for our 2017 instantiation of the EIM Quad Cities Meet-n-Eat. Even the most punctilious detailers among us (thinking of you, Larry H.!) sucked it up and accepted the reality of winter road grime in order come together for great food and even […]
Flying Tomato Under the Union Jack
Thanks to everyone who braved a somewhat drizzly (but relatively warm) Saturday in January in order to join us at our first meet-up for 2017 — the EIM Meet-n-Eat at the Wig and Pen Pub hosted in Iowa City on 1/21. Loved catching up with good MINI friends, enjoying good eats, and laying out some […]
Award-Winning EIMers
The Year 2016 certainly had its share of ups and downs, but without question EIM enjoyed another great year of MINI motoring adventures and fun. We took a moment to reflect on those good times and to share our memories and laughs during our last official event of the year — the EIM Meet-n-Eat at […]
EIM Returns to the Ozark Mountains
—————— EIM enjoyed another fantastic trip to Eureka Springs, Arkansas and the surrounding Ozark Mountain region during our group’s participation in the annual 2016 MINIs in the Ozarks event from 20-23 October. Our motorists were blessed with absolutely perfect weather from start to finish. EIM essentially took over all of the cabins at the Brackenridge […]
Tour de Bluffs & Bends
—————— The morning mist last Saturday did not deter a record total of 33 MINIs and over 50 motorists from Eastern Iowa MINIs and from the Central Iowa MINI Club from joining up for a great autumn drive through the bluff country of northeastern Iowa as part of the 14th Annual MINI Cooper Iowa Fall […]
Apple-licious
EIM enjoyed a fun run up to Gays Mills, Wisconsin the past weekend as part of our Gays Mills Apple Run ’16 event. The roads heading north out of Dubuque are always a treat, as are the orchard visits, the views, the apple cider doughnuts (yum!) and apple pizza a la mode (yum x2!). We […]