IMPORTANT HISTORY- WAR 1812-1815

On the MOA VI trip, we will be visiting many historical battle sites. You may wish to review your understanding of the WAR OF 1812-1815 on this Wikipedia site to make the trip more interesting.  Our trip will be on the 200th Anniversary Year of the end of the war.

More Morganeers are showing interest in joining on the trip- we are up to close to 50 cars.
We will soon be contacting each of you to provide us with a better idea of your intent to join the entire trip. If you are just curious about the trip, but really doubt you will join us, please let us know.

LIST IS GROWING

There are now 43 Morgan's (and their drivers) signed up for MOA VI, 2015, and we haven't even yet advertised to all the UK Morgan Club Centres. This is a fantastic response.
As we will be limiting the number of Morgans that come on the trip (less than 43), please let us know if you are no longer interested so you can be removed from the list.
It presents many challenges and much more work for the organizers if participants don't do the entire route, as planned. Ken and I  receive nothing other than smiles,  thank you's and a small gift for organizing these trips (no, you don't cover our expenses- never have on MOA's) which keeps the trip cost as reasonable as possible, and far less than other trips. Those who pay for the entire trip have expectations of us, and we can't be diverted for others.
Therefore,  we plan on only taking participants who agree to do the entire route. Yes, if we are in your area, you can drive along with us for one day. You will need to copy the master list for the route, as we don't carry extra "dailies".
Sorry about not being able to do Day Trippers, but it is much too much work for us.

THIRTY MORGANS SIGN UP

The list is growing rapidly of people interested in MOA VI- 2015. We have 30 Morgan owners who have  expressed serious interest in the trip. In January 2014, non-refundable (but transferable) deposits will be requested to assure a spot on the trip. At this point, we haven't determined how many places there will be on the trip, but we do know that 43 cars is too many and 20 works well (keep up the good work George and Moira).

For those who have not been on our Morgans Over America trips, we work with a travel agent on booking rooms, and the participants pay the travel agent directly- generally in 2 payments. Individuals do not deal directly with the hotels/motels. At this time we do not know the average daily room rate for 2015- but for budgeting purposes, plan $175 per day (we will definitely try for lower). We include staying at historical hotels, and then prefer motels where we keep our Morgans outside the door. It is difficult to deal with participants who do not do the entire trip, so please plan on the entire trip.

For shipping from UK and Australia, we will look for a volunteer(s)  from each country to coordinate the shipping from that country. Shipping will be TO Savannah, Georgia and FROM Norfolk, Virginia. There are shipping routes with the same carriers that call at both ports. We will probably "FedEx" some Morgans from the West Coast to Savannah, unless everyone decides to drive there and back.

We also hope to make contact with local Morgan and British car clubs for visiting along the route. On MOA IV, an entire town brought out the band, and a Wings and Wheels festival was held at the airport museum- great fun.

VISIT OTTAWA & QUEBEC CITY CANADA

One of our 2 night stops will be in Ottawa,  Canada's Capital, a city which we have not visited before on any Morgan's Over America- see Ottawa Tourism . We will skip Toronto and Montreal this trip, and instead spend two nights each in Ottawa and Quebec City before heading southeast  toward Prince Edward Island -see PEI tourism. We so enjoyed Quebec City on a prior trip and missed making it to PEI. 

20 MORGANS SIGNED UP

There has been a terrific response to our first communication for Morgans Over America VI 2015.  Twenty potential participants (Morgans)  have signed up so far, with Morgans  from the US, Canada, UK, Switzerland, and Australia. Some are repeat Morganeers from MOA III, IV and V and some are new. 

In January 2014, we will start requesting registration deposits, so that we can start booking hotels with a clear idea of the numbers of rooms needed. As before, the entire amount for hotels will be paid to our travel agent in advance 

As last time, we discourage not doing the entire route, as it makes planning very difficult and unfairly puts the extra costs on the full participants. However, we will make a final decision on this when we determine the actual numbers of full participants. 

VISIT CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

We will be spending 2  nights in  Charleston, SC, the city which was Conde Nast Travelers Readers Choice for 2011 US city to visit.

The city is full of History and our visit can include antebellum mansion tours, Fort Sumpter, street markets, churches and many other historic places.

ROUTE BEGINNING AND END

The decision was made to start MOA VI in Savannah, Georgia as it is a busy big port on the east coast of the US to ship cars from UK and easy to reach by air.

Participants can arrive early and spend extra  time  visiting this wonderful city of  Savannah, Georgia.

The end will be in/near  Colonial Williamsburg with shipping and flying out o

of Norfolk, VA which is nearby.

Both of these cities are very historic and provide insight into American history.