Hello fellow club members. I would like to invite you and your Bronco’s to the 2013 MEB Fall Cruise on October 12th. We will spend this year’s event with two interesting tours and a great fall foliage cruise through Southern Schuylkill County and Berks County.
We will start the cruise at Cabela’s in Hamburg Pa., conveniently located just off of Interstate 78. Cabela’s opens at 8:00 AM, so if you want to see the store and do some shopping, you will have until 8:45, which will be our departure time for the beginning of the cruise.
Once we leave Cabela’s, we will be heading north on Rt. 61 for a private tour through the Yuengling Brewery. Our tour check in will be at 9:45, with the tour beginning at 10:00 am. Please note that the tour will require climbing a number of steps due to the age of the brewery. Also, no open toe shoes are allowed. Please see the Yuengling Brewery website for additional details of the tour, (giftshop@yuengling.com). The tour will last for approximately one hour and fifteen minutes.
We will depart for the next leg of our cruise at 11:15. We will be traveling to Boyertown, Pa for a tour of the Boyertown Museum, which is a museum of antique and historic vehicles.
www.boyertownmuseum.org. The museum closes at 4:00. We should be arriving at the museum between 2:30 and 3:00, to try to provide as much time as possible to see the exhibits.
Lunch will be somewhere along the way from Pottsville to Boyertown. I have a few ideas in the works and will update everyone on our lunch plans as the date gets closer.
For overnight accommodations, the closest hotel to Cabelas is the Microtel Hotel. Rates on their website are listed at $85.00 per night. 610-562-4234.
There are also a number of campgrounds close to Cabelas. Blue Rocks Campground (bluerockscampground.com) and Mountain Springs Camping Resort (mountainspringscampground.com).
The Hamburg area also offers many different food options for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
8:00 AM: Cabelas opens for those wanting to see the store
9:45 AM: Leave Cabelas parking lot for Pottsville for Yuengling Brewery Tour
10:45: Check in for brewery tour
11:00: Tour begins
12:30: Leave for balance of cruise, cruise to Boyertown Museum
1:00: Stop for lunch
1:45: Leave lunch spot for Boyertown Museum tour
2:30-2:45: Arrive at Boyertown Museum for tour
4:00: That’s all she wrote.
Thanks, and I look forward to seeing everyone on October 12th.
Dave, Michelle and Jack Breen