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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Hello, Triumph enthusiast!<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">My name is Phil Ethier.<span> 
</span>I am not officially in charge of trailer-parking for the VTR convention.<span>  </span>I am the autocross chair, and I myself have a
20-foot car hauler.<span>  </span>I have been to the
designated trailer-parking area in La Crosse and have seen the possible
pitfalls and traps for rigs like ours.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">If you are not going to bring a trailer to the VTR, I am
sorry to have bothered you with this message.<span> 
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">If you are towing a small luggage trailer with your Triumph,
you should be just fine going to the hotel parking lot on 2nd street.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">If you are towing your Triumph on/in a car-trailer, I
STRONGLY urge you not to approach the hotel with your rig.<span>  </span>Go to the trailer park first, and drive
either your Triumph or your tow vehicle to the hotel to check in for the
convention.<span>  </span>There are pitfalls in
approaching the parking site, so please read this entire message.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">The trailer park is located at<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Oktoberfest Grounds<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">1 Oktoberfest Strasse, La Crosse, WI 54601<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Parking is the triangular area on the northeast end of the
site.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Do NOT go up Front St N to park your trailer, as this will
put you on the wrong side of the Oktoberfest grounds.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">I suggest you approach the La Crosse area on I-90.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Going either eastbound or westbound on I-90, take Exit 3 to
go southbound on US 53.<span>  </span>This eventually
becomes 3rd Street North.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Do NOT turn right on 2nd Street North.<span>  </span>This would bring you to an ugly 270-degree
right turn to the trailer park.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Do NOT turn right on La Crosse Street.<span>  </span>This would bring you to jog to the right
setting you up for a 90-degree left into the same ugly 270-degree right turn to
the trailer park.<span>  </span>Instead, at this
intersection, follow the road as it veers right and remains US 53 and 3rd
Street North.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">You may turn right at Pine Street.<span>  </span>This is a one-block street that will bring
you to a tee at 2nd Street North.<span>  </span>You
will have a simple stop sign and 2nd Street North does not.<span>  </span>I can't predict whether traffic will be a
problem.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">OR<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Next is Vine Street, which is much the same as Pine.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">OR<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Next is State Street.<span> 
</span>A right turn here will bring you up to full traffic-signal lights at 2nd
Street North.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Whichever you choose, turn right to go northbound on 2nd
Street North.<span>  </span>Continue northbound.<span>  </span>When you approach La Crosse Street, where all
traffic normally turns right, instead stay to your left and enter the
Oktoberfest grounds, driving past the DEAD END sign.<span>  </span>Continue past the decorated building on your
left and continue straight through the gate into the triangular parking lot.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Do whatever you like to proceed to the hotel in a
single-unit vehicle.<span>  </span>This is a simple
drive southbound on 2nd Street North, which becomes 2nd Street South at Main
Street.<span>  </span>Turn right into the parking lot
at Main.<span>  </span>Main will be a full street on
your left and a no-cars pedestrian mall on your right.<span>  </span>The entrance to the Radisson Hotel is
immediately adjacent to this mall.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">I'm looking forward to seeing you at the convention.<span>  </span>We can lift a cool beverage and bench-tow
about all the weird predicaments we have gotten into when nobody bothered to
tell us what to expect.<span>   </span>I have stories,
and I expect that you have, too!<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria">Feel free to email me at <a href="mailto:pethier7@gmail.gov">pethier7@gmail.gov</a> with any
questions or comments.<span></span></p>





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