2023 Tours Summary
BY KURT FUERSTENAU, TOURS DIRECTOR
PHOTOS BY TOSH KANNO, MIKE NEWBY, RICK PITTMAN, AND DANIEL MORRIS Please contact me with any questions or concerns at Tours@oregonpca.org or 503-351-0934.
A
s you read this month’s
Electric Vehicles, Summer Evening,
Anzeiger, our 2023 Tour season
Summer Afternoon, Introduction to
is nearly over. Tours are a big
Arrive and Drives, Air Cooled, Boxster
part of our region’s activities. We ran
Only, Women Only, Drive Wine and
57 separate tours, with many multi-day
Dine, Covered Bridge and the Winter
events totaling 66 days of memories
Wonderland. Our multi-day drives
with old and new friends. Besides our
included the Walla Walla Wine Tour and
standard Arrive and Drives, Midweek
a pair of hugely successful Northwest
Drives, and SUV Drives, we added many
Passage events. We plan on adding
specialty events. These drives included
new specialty tours for the 2024 season including a GT drive and a Cayman Drive. All of this is possible because of many volunteers. Peg Ryan provided the communication and registration support. Randi Ledbetter kept track of the drivers and sent the team a spreadsheet of attendee information for each drive. Kurt Fuerstenau submitted insurance applications for each event. Eric Lewis presented the annual Tour class and updated the Tours Manual. Drives were led by Heinz Holzapfel, Eric Lewis, Kurt Fuerstenau, Ravi Rajaram, William Rasnake, Jeff Gretz, Scott Dual, Daniel Morris, Tosh Kanno, Carole
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